Well just got home from the sea trials.. 3-5’ seas, 30kt wind. The boat preformed excellent! All systems were tested, electrical, electronics, water and generator. Generator fired up after about 5sec of pre-heat and ran all systems including air units and the stove. Note that the outside air temp was about 40 and water temp much less. We had turned on the block heaters about an hour or so before starting up the mains. They both started with a very quick push of the starter and after about 10 sec settled in to a smooth idle, no noticeable smoke at start, and a very little light blue smoke while at the dock. Out on the water, after the engines were warm I brought it up to about 1850 and was showing 18.1kts on the GPS. Ran it up to 2300 (or just under) and read 21kts. I did note a little black smoke, briefly as we were bringing it up to speed. Don’t know exactly what RPM it was, but it was very brief. Temps showed 175 on port and a little less than 180 on starboard. Closed the deal on the dock and send the papers in tomorrow, very excited! On a different note I would like to thank the members of this forum for the tremendous amount of knowledge you have provided on this site. When I joined a few weeks back I spent a lot of late nights reading all the old posting trying to gather all the information that I could. It seams like every question I came up with somebody had already asked it and somebody else provided the answer. Thank you again
Chris
SUPERIOR NIGHTS
Hatteras 53c
