nauticlew
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After a day cruising to an anchorage the engine room gets hot and give off heat all night, comfortable in October but not in July. Any ideas on how to cool the engine room in the summer months?
a one ton engine? is it a MAN v16?
that will make it sit heavy in the stern...
The higher the engine intake air is, the less efficient it runs. You are effectively lowering the engine compression when you feed hot air to an engine. I guess you can run a turbo with an intercooler to fix that... If you must have a hot ER, have your engine intake air pulled from ambient temp fresh air coming from outside the ER.
A decade ago as we struggled with where to boat out our retirement years, the PNW won out. No bad winter temperatures and cool water. As we currently work our way north with Port Hardy and further north still dipping into the upper forties F at night, ER heat is much appreciated.