Sum Escape
Member
- Apr 7, 2009
- 393
- Boat Info
- 2020 Tiara 53 Flybridge
- Engines
- CAT C 12.9 1000 HP Straight Shaft
We hope to soon join this owners group. Have a purchase agreement and the survey is on Wednesday. Looking for specific issues to perhaps focus the surveyors on known issues on the 52 DBs.
So far, my research has turned up the QSM 11 exhaust leak issue and Cummins will be addressing this (no visual evidence based an my inspection) and I will have both sets of props tuned as recommended. Other things I noticed were salt residue by both A/C water pumps, water in ER bilge, cycling vacu flush (ha, no one has ever seen that before), water in lazarette (boat had just been washed and it appeared to come from the hatch). So hull surveyor will be directed toward these items for sure.
A few questions on the electrical systems on this boat. I noted only 2 8D starting batteries plus the thruster batteries. The starting batteries appear to serve as house batteries as well. Which starting battery powers the house loads? What is the amperage of the alternators on these QSM 11s?
We like to anchor out and thus need an adequate house bank and will be installing an inverter and battery bank to supply it. Will want to run refrigeration, entertainment systems, microwave (short stints only) and a few 110 outlets (similar to our current boat set up except we now have 12v refrigeration). On our current set up, I can combine my house bank (2 8D deep cycle and 4 Group 31 Deep cycle) banks and charge off the alternator (110 amp) when running for the day. This is ideal in that batteries are nearly always fully charged when arriving. Can anyone recommend how they have set up their 12v system to allow for anchoring out without running the genset constantly?
Any advice you can offer on the known issues and 12v systems on these vessels will be much appreciated. Please PM or post here. Thanks!
So far, my research has turned up the QSM 11 exhaust leak issue and Cummins will be addressing this (no visual evidence based an my inspection) and I will have both sets of props tuned as recommended. Other things I noticed were salt residue by both A/C water pumps, water in ER bilge, cycling vacu flush (ha, no one has ever seen that before), water in lazarette (boat had just been washed and it appeared to come from the hatch). So hull surveyor will be directed toward these items for sure.
A few questions on the electrical systems on this boat. I noted only 2 8D starting batteries plus the thruster batteries. The starting batteries appear to serve as house batteries as well. Which starting battery powers the house loads? What is the amperage of the alternators on these QSM 11s?
We like to anchor out and thus need an adequate house bank and will be installing an inverter and battery bank to supply it. Will want to run refrigeration, entertainment systems, microwave (short stints only) and a few 110 outlets (similar to our current boat set up except we now have 12v refrigeration). On our current set up, I can combine my house bank (2 8D deep cycle and 4 Group 31 Deep cycle) banks and charge off the alternator (110 amp) when running for the day. This is ideal in that batteries are nearly always fully charged when arriving. Can anyone recommend how they have set up their 12v system to allow for anchoring out without running the genset constantly?
Any advice you can offer on the known issues and 12v systems on these vessels will be much appreciated. Please PM or post here. Thanks!