Smashpjp
Active Member
I purchased my 2001 340 this last year and the previous owner had removed the generator. He did a lot of his own maintenance on the 8.1s and it is very crammed with the genset pulled. He placed all the batteries in the old gen location and all the harnesses are still there for a re-install. I was planning on doing the re-install this spring, but I am really rethinking the hassle for what we gain from it. Its lake Erie, so its very easy to Island hop and get shore power almost anywhere. Most dont use their genset around here. Air-conditioning and microwave is basically what we would gain.
The gen is a Westerbeke 7.0 bcgc with 540 hours vs the boats 900. Im guessing these were all on the 2 owners back when this thing was at Hilton Head. It has a new rebuilt carb on it and has been winterized. It runs well and we had it setup with a gastank and buckets for water cooling. Ran some power tools as a test. starts no issue. It also has all the installation parts, muffler and coolant reservoir. Everything is there if I wanted to re-install it in the boat.
Since I would just need AC to run the Air on some daytrips mostly, I was thinking about selling the Generator and possibly building a separate lifePo4 bank for the house and installing an inverter. It seems for the scenarios we would need AC power that battery technology is almost there rather than dealing with the additional maintenance of a gas genset.
Thoughts? What do you think this Westerbeke 7.0 bcgc is worth?
The gen is a Westerbeke 7.0 bcgc with 540 hours vs the boats 900. Im guessing these were all on the 2 owners back when this thing was at Hilton Head. It has a new rebuilt carb on it and has been winterized. It runs well and we had it setup with a gastank and buckets for water cooling. Ran some power tools as a test. starts no issue. It also has all the installation parts, muffler and coolant reservoir. Everything is there if I wanted to re-install it in the boat.
Since I would just need AC to run the Air on some daytrips mostly, I was thinking about selling the Generator and possibly building a separate lifePo4 bank for the house and installing an inverter. It seems for the scenarios we would need AC power that battery technology is almost there rather than dealing with the additional maintenance of a gas genset.
Thoughts? What do you think this Westerbeke 7.0 bcgc is worth?