Yacht Engines

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Yacht Engines

Yacht Engines

A yacht is a pleasure boat and is used for commercial tourism or for private purposes. Yachts are designed for cruising in marinas, inland waters, and areas close to the coast. It is generally not designed to face the ravages of the ocean.

For the yachts to cruise around it needs engines for propulsion. The propulsion engines are usually diesel engines and are mounted on both side of the keel, on the port and starboard sides. There are many makes of yacht diesel engines in service, to name a few, they are Mercury, M.D.U., Caterpillar, MAN, Volvo Penta, Hyundai.

Yacht engines are four stroke engines, i.e. it requires four strokes to complete one cycle resulting in two crank revolutions. The piston has two strokes down wards and two strokes upwards, i.e. the reciprocator motion of the piston is converted to rotary motion at the crank (crankshaft). A rotary motion is transmitted to the gear box and through the propeller shaft the rotary motion is further transmitted to the propeller.


 Yacht Engines

Yacht engine speed ranges vary from medium to high speed. The medium speed engines range is from 300 - 800 revolutions per minute (RPM) and high-speed engines range from 800 -2,000 RPM. A reduction gear is engaged to reduce the engine RPM to an acceptable limit at the propeller. Propellers are generally more efficient at lower RPM. By and large, the reduction gear is fitted aft of the yacht engine but in some cases, it is fitted forward of the yacht engine. The reduction gear enables to reduce the RPM of the engine to suit the propeller.

Yacht diesel engines come in two configurations, i.e. in line or I engine and VEE or V engine. In an I engine the piston moves upwards and downwards in vertical direction. However, in a V engine the configuration the pistons is in angular direction and it moves in an upwards and downwards. . The number of units varies from 3 cylinders to generally 12 cylinders. Typically there are two yacht diesel engines, one on the port side and the other on the starboard side, thus there are two propellers. The horsepower of the engines varies from 200 per engine to 1,000 per engine.

To boost the power of a Yacht engines are turbocharged. Blowers are provided to supply air to the turbochargers. I engines have 1 blower whereas in V engines there are 2 blowers fitted

The engines are designed to provide optimum speed to the yacht. The smaller yachts- 30 feet length has higher cruising speeds as compared to 140 feet yacht. Depending on the design, the top speed of a small yacht is generally around 40 knots. And the cruising speed of around 30 knots. However, the top speed of a big yacht is around 22 knots with a cruising speed of around 15 knots.

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