1. This stainless steel pipe and hose assembly puts the sea strainer above the boat’s outside waterline.
2. Check out these Racors.
The level at which they’re installed makes the collection bowls easy to see without stooping or kneeling.
3. Genasun lithium batteries and Victron Energy inverters will keep electrics going all night sans genset.
4. Engine-room electrics are installed so schematically they resemble the insides of a smartphone.
A bit of grooviness subtly announced itself during my tour of our Coastal Craft 65 Concord’s engine room. While I was studying the stainless-steel pipe fittings coming off the one-third-horsepower Scott electric motor that pumps raw water for the Marine Air air-conditioning system, it suddenly dawned on me—hey, the darn thing’s been secured by the folks at Coastal Craft so it’s almost plug-and-play removable. Just in case it’s ever necessary to extract and replace the motor. Once I’d picked up on this nifty detail, it became pretty easy to see that virtually every other piece of equipment in the engine room—including the main engines and the genset—were secured in the very same plug-and-play way. Now that’s boatbuilding!
