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Originally Posted by Matt
I was thinking about the motor last weekend actually and how weak it seemed now I have another one to compare to.
What ultimately turned out to be wrong with it?
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All interesting - and just brings all the frustrations back. So much work that year for so little reward. Really difficult trying to develop a one-off boat with a big variable such as an engine that would not perform and was also inconsistent.
Never found out the full extent of the engine problems in France. I wanted to sell the engine with a full service - but the French guys could not wait and were happy to take it as it was. It was then a few months until they actually used it! Then came back to me saying how much they had to spend on it - but problems with translation in deciding exactly what was wrong. Certainly a lot of electrical items were replaced and there were compressor problems as well.
However at that stage I was designing and then going to build a pretty radical new 3C boat for them. This all fell apart as a result and they basically (and quite reasonably) threw their toys out - and communications stopped.
Real shame and hated loosing them as clients - good, honest guys and really nice people.