New owner in USVI
I recently purchased this beauty and had it sent down to St Croix USVI. We are about 40 miles south of St Thomas and BVI and about 50 miles from Puerto Rico. She definately has some blue water runs in her future and there is some great fishing here. Haven't got it out on the water yet but she is still in good shape for her age. Hoping to get her out this weekend but have some minor repairs. The oxygen sensors went out on the engines and I just rigged it with some new fuel flow sensors to take advantage of the nice Garmin GPSMap on her now. Really want to get an autopilot put on her but going to have to wait a bit on that.
The only other long term repair I'm expecting after getting some use out of her is to design a way in the deck to make the fuel tanks more accessible. They can't really be accessed and are currently foamed in. It has one 100 gallon with a mechanical gauge that can be viewed through the deck. The other tank is 80 gallon but has no sender or gauge. Each engine has its own tank. With the new fuel flow sensors I plan on just keeping track of how much gas goes in and once it is full to mark each as 80 gallon tanks. They are located forward and aft under the deck. The emergency reserve will be 20 gallons on one engine. I'm not sure how I would eventually change the current tank setup although it would be nice to have fuel senders on each and a way to make each engine accessible to each tank if necessary. Or would you run both off one tank and then have a valve to access the second? I think there are advantages and disadvantages to any setup but having the ability to switch which tank/tanks has access to would be ideal. Any ideas? Probably not going to happen for some time since the deck is still solid and I hate to cut it up quite yet.
PS. Anyone coming to St Croix send me a PM. She isn't going to be a good single handed boat but that's what the extra room is for!
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