Clean engine rooms?

[Ross Macdonald]

Just saw your post Dave and I appreciate the kind words, but at present, my ER isn't near as clean as yours. I have just returned from being on the hook for 72 days and I'm in the process of repainting and cleaning. By the time I get everything decent again, we will be heading to Mexico for another 7 months and everything will be compromised once more.... The reason I have never posted pictures is I am the last person on the planet that does not own a digital camera. But Gary Stevens of Mckinna Yachts took some pictures for a posting on their brokerage site that are pretty good. So I guess if anybody is interested, they are on Mckinna Yachts site or also on Yachtworld.

 

[34Hatt]

Well I didn't polish thru hulls but I did polish engine beds and waxed them painted bildge with Sterling pure white and it has been very easy to keep clean . Still have to fix some small oil leaks but that's on the Winter List .

 

[mike]

Attached are 2 photos of over a month of hard work cleaning and painting 32 years of DD soiled bilges. It's a never-ending work in progress, but now at least I can put my hand in the bilge without fear of losing it.

 

[Liquid Asset]

You Guys make me Jelous. My engine room is dirty as can be and I am working on cleaning it up after having the exhaust leak. But I am just not sure it can ever be that clean. Not at least untill the engines are out of the way. I do not have a stand up engine room, but I have a lot of space and I would love to dream of some of the engine room pictures I just got to see. I think it may be a pipe dream though.

 

[67hat34c]

Dan, Ever thought of replacing your deck hatches with 1/4 tempered glass? Good way to show them off.

Noticed pvc pipes against forward bulkhead, what is that about?

 

[34Hatt]

Noticed pvc pipes against forward bulkhead, what is that about?

Thats the head! The old owner cut the water tank flush to the bulkhead . Asked him why he said seemed like a good Idea at the time but the old tank was still good . He was going to slide a new one inside of the old one well except there are baffles in there.
So I closed the end of it a made it a holding tank and put a 80- gallon plastic under rear deck for water. I used PVC every where I can much better then the hose crap.

 

[jim rosenthal]

Dan, your engine room is awesome...much better than mine. I have hopes, though. Actually they are all better than mine...maybe I'll have photos later on. Mike, is that hydraulic rig the stabilizer driving unit? just curious.

 

[mike]

Jim, your correct, it's the drive unit for the STBD Niaid stabilizer.

 

[CARL GUZMAN]

Wow 34 Hat that was clean enough to eat off of I guess you can use it as a dinning area as well I attached a picture of the cleanest wall I have but you can bet I'll be working all week to post a close picture but I don't think I'll ever have you guys beat but the challenge is on

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Carl,
I like that rack on the bulkhead for storage. I may have to build one of those. I sure like looking at all of these pictures. It gives me a bunch of ideas. The only problem is that now I have more projects than time.

 

[dwaynec]

If my engine room looked one one hundredth as good as the pictures I have seen in this thread, I would be absolutely ecstatic. The realization is that I will have to spend a lot more quality time in the engine room to get it any where near presentable.

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Ya know, after building street rods for a long while,there was always someone else whos rod was nicer or faster etc-- I gave up and started building RAT RODS. Maybe thats what I should do with the HATT TRICK
I would always be pleased to win "worst of show" --A rusty steel trophy of a submarine. Maybe paint EVERTHING in the ER flat dark gray. ws

 

[CARL GUZMAN]

You know I can't take credit like 34hat and some of the other guys I'm sorry I got to tell you the truth I purchased her this way, but I am trying to keep her clean if that means anything

 

[Paul45c]

You know I can't take credit like 34hat and some of the other guys I'm sorry I got to tell you the truth I purchased her this way, but I am trying to keep her clean if that means anything

Heck, Carl, I don't care how you inherited it, if you can keep her looking that good you're miles ahead of 80% of us. Very nice. You motoryacht guys make me jealous with those spacious walkaround engine rooms, too!

 

[Genesis]

Yeah, I think that's the key to all of this, really.

There's just no way I could keep an ER to that level of cleanliness when I am crawling over shafts and under gear coolers to get outboard, and access to the forward half of that space requires me to pull the floor!

Not a snowball's chance in Hades.......

 

[34Hatt]

Well I have to say for Carl and lot of others you guys you have A LOT more engine and engine room to keep clean . This is one of those times where smaller is better oh yeah just like when you have to wash the outside . Inside doesn't matter that the Admirals job, just don't tell her I said that .

 

[thoward]

When I had my 43' I would just roll around in the bottom and slide over the exaust and such. The way I see it is if I can take more out than I put in, it is only a matter of time before I have a spotless ER.

 

[67hat34c]

Ok, I am going to start this weekend. give it one more cleaning then start the repaint.

 

[mariah]

Do NOT use diesel fuel to clean your engine room.!!!! I read an article on an Israli boat with DetDie that had a small flame turn into a major flame from the fuel they were using to make the boat look good for inspection>

 

[yachtsmanbill]

I spent days and days cleaning up so that the ER was spotless and then air brushed everything to look nasty and greasy. If youve got vertigo from looking down, the orientation is starboard engine, and forward to the A.C units,
A.C. circ pump, and star bilge pump.
This CAMO job really throws everyone off a little ws