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PROPULSION tion of the diesel so the fuel is being burned more ef? cient-

Cape Reliant ly,” said Wallace, adding quickly, “And, on a YANMAR

The many features and advantages of the YANMAR engine, if there is an injector problem, the vessel’s engineer marine engine could well be enough to sway even the most can unscrew the tip, clean it out and put it back together.

particular buyer, but not in the case of the Cape Reliant’s

Separately, the purpose-built engine boasts a huge oil owners. Because YANMAR, in this market at least, is a pan – good for 500 hours of service – or more than twice relatively new entry, this time, that simply wasn’t enough. the standard maintenance interval. Adding to that kind of Cape Reliant’s principals wanted assurances that parts and reliability, YANMAR owns its own gear company, Kan- service, in the unlikely event that emergency work had to zaki, and is one of the few engine OEM’s that can offer be done, could be had in a prompt fashion. And, YAN- both the gears and the engines. Wallace points out, “Those MAR answered the call.

gears are built speci? cally for those engines. For owners,

In the last year alone, YANMAR ramped its inventory they can get the same guarantee on the gears as the engine in the United States by more than $4 million in spares, to – and he’s talking to just one person or OEM.” For marine include engines and gears. “They were sold on the ef? ciency operators or boatbuilders, they can choose any gear they and long lasting nature of the engine, but they [the custom- want to interface with the YANMAR engine, but it’s nice er] were worried about parts,” said Wallace, adding, “So we to know that a turnkey solution can be had, if desired.

agreed, for this project, to stock parts in Alaska (Anchorage).

We own them, but it gave them peace of mind and it shows our commitment to the market – we’re not going away.

We can ? y those anywhere from An- chorage and we’re doing training for the local distributors and holding seminars for the dealers. This will involve our proprietary 3D training tool.”

The three-owner consortium had actively considered at least three other engine brands but eventually settled on the YANMAR. They weren’t disap- pointed when they did. Together with

YANMAR’s newest addition to their distributor arsenal, Northern Lights, they jointly handled local interface dur- ing the installation and commission- ing. The repower event went smoothly.

Operating as YANMAR’s West

Coast and Alaska representatives only within last year, Northern Lights made sure that as YANMAR dipped its toes into these cold Alaskan waters, all went as planned. For his part, North- ern Lights Technical Service Represen- tative Scott Dyball told MarineNews, “During sea trials, I was impressed with the smooth, quiet and powerful nature of the engine.”

Separately, Jody Cook, one of three

Cape Reliant owners, echoed those sentiments. “The YANMAR engine is working perfectly. We’re not even us-

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