Now that's a big diesel engine. Sucks down about 1,600 gallons an hour! There's a little guy standing in the picture with a yellow suit. About 100,000 horsepower, to be used in a containership to brings us all kinds of crap that says "Made in China." Who would have thunk it possible?
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I give up. In the pic, it is inside a building, and so darn large...I thought you were joking. At most I thought maybe it was an engine for an electric power plant or something. How could I have doubted you...and what a monster it is!! I googled it...wow!! That powers some monster ship! !
Walt, Bennys Cafe
That's a diesel engine for a large containership, one like over 1,000 feet long and capable of hauling over 10,000 containers (8 feet tall by 40 feet long box). The average engine on a ship is about 40,000 horsepower. Cruise ships can have a combined power of over 100,000 HP but they'd have 6 diesel engines and 2 jet turbines (I kid you not!). I study this kind of thing for my job so I do have a good excuse.
reckon we could get pair o'those in my boat?
(counter-rotating, of course)
;^)
I can tell that's Captain Bill Fisher of the Makaira Mojo sport-fisher and he is lusting for ... hey your boat works perfectly fine! A gallon of fuel only gets you about 10 feet with an engine that size.
I was thinking about sails on the tuna tower to save gas but ... LOL!
>> I was thinking about sails on the tuna tower to save gas <<
seriously considering kite or parachute power........ prolly wouldn't pull me at trolling speeds (but maybe fast enough for trolling live and/or deat bait) but at least it might reduce fuel consumption trolling down wind
just gotta wonder how hard it'd be to throttle back in reverse and stop or back down on big fish though (cut'er loose with a quick disconnect and a float on the line to retrieve it later?)
;^)
that was 'dead' bait (dammit!)
whar's the edit button when ya need one???!!
Hey "deat bait" made perfect sense to me, Cap'n! Sorry but this hoobie bloggy thang is pretty primitive.
That said, you could rig a spinnaker or large sail off the tuna tower and when the big fish hits, just let go of the lower lines and let'r flap.
It will add the the general mayhem and confusion anyway, exciting schtuff.
sams
"A gallon of fuel only gets you about 10 feet with an engine that size."
mebbee so...... but i bet it'd be the fastest ten foot my boat's ever traveled! :^o)!
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