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From: Joe Engel (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 12:46:50 EDT
Hi Bob:
We looked at a lot of the old Pacemakers before we bought our
Tollycraft. I always liked the way they looked. The only weaknesses we
found were chronic dry-rot issues in the transom area but the surveyors
we used back then were "Pacemaker aware" and knew where to look for such
problems.
A Pacemaker is not a trawler and a cruise of 14 to 16 knots is not
considered a sedate cruise speed around most of this list. Our boat
cruises at the same speed yours does, but it is not a trawler design. I
doubt your props are protected as you describe because a twin with a
planing hull (OK, semi-displacement hull) would not be able to pull up
on plane dragging twin-keels and skegs behind. 16 knots is definitely
on-plane.
You're right about repowering. Forget it. You could run your boat for
50 years on the difference in costs between repowering to diesels and
paying for gasoline and rebuilding engines.
I would not look too hard for wiring schematics for your vessel. If
they ever were published it's almost guaranteed that many, many changes
have been made by previous owners over the years. In 1965, a pair of 12
volt wires running fore and aft was considered pretty sophisticated.
Chances are that's about all that an original wiring diagram would show
anyway.
When we rewired our 1973 Tollycraft, we literally took apart every
wiring bundle and cluster and traced every wire and gradually built up a
map of the current situation. It was not pretty as there were wires
everywhere that had no purpose (had been abandoned), wires that ran to
non-existent equipment, wires that changed color in mid-run, lamp cord,
coax, Band-Aids, friction-tape, solder joints, house wiring, you name
it. Consider it a slowly solved, enjoyable puzzle.
Hopefully you can find a willing helper for the many times you will be
hanging upside-down jerking on some unidentified wire while elsewhere
your helper feels for the movement as you try an figure out where it
goes.
If your AC wiring is original it will have solid-core house wiring wire
and house type switch panels which all will have to be replaced.
Good luck
Joe Engel
Portland, OR
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Davies [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:09 PM
To:
Subject: TWL: Pacemaker Yachts
I have a 65 32 Pacemaker Sedan Express, single plank mahogany over ash
frames, running twin 283 C.I. gas inboards. While she is not a trawler
as
such, she does run at comparable speeds cruise is around 14 - 16 knots
at
2,600 RPM - so I appreciate the obvious benefits of enjoying a
relatively
sedate cruise. While I would love to enjoy the range that diesels
provide,
I can get nearly 12 hours on a single tank of fuel, and cant afford the
cost of re-powering.
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