Engine Hours

[Guest]

Re:Steve H

Oh I see now. Thought is was a ref to Lurchwoods sea keeping. Shes based in Hythe Marina S'Hampton water, dont know if she was ever on the Thames, used to be owned by the guy in jfm's piccie also featured in an early addition of MBM article on TS37's.
My friends name is Phil Jackson.



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[jfm]

Re:top deck

That's the one, Top Deck. The pic of Bwood 37 is often in MBY classifieds.

 

[petem]

Re: Your mate must be.....

Think it's Mike Banbury. Also did my Day Skipper on Crystal Rapide (except it's not so rapid). Nearly crapped myself doing night Nav in Southampton Water.
Apart from that dood time had by all and even managed to sink a few sherberts.

 

[petem]

MBY did a second hand report on TS37's about four years ago. Shame, I only recently binned it. However, from what I can remember they didn't make many SS's as there was little demand. I also believe that they are worth less than comparable TS37's.

 

[tcm]

Re:Steve H

no, far too new for the banger on the thames. Probably was less than 37 feet .

 

[Guest]

Re: Your mate must be.....

Me too in S'hampton water night nav came up from the hamble having waited til dark, heavy wind across beam eventually got to marina and phil took over the controls to keep the damn thing pointing against the wind & tide, did a great job of crabbing it into lock though.

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[Viking]

Re: What is a Engine Hour??

The engine is only 120 hours old or is that 60 hours?

 

[boomer]

Seem to remember there were some serious concerns about the handling of the Super Sports model. Without the weight of the aft-cabin (as in TS37) and with the C of G moved further up because of the fly-bridge, the stern developed a mind of its own. Birchwood addressed the problem by ballasting. Better make sure that the one you are considering still has all the necessary ballast in place. As said above, never a popular model and few made, probably because the reviews had slammed it.

This wasn't the model that had such an influence on you, was it Byron?

 

[NorthernWave]

Ballast???

Where would it be? I've never had a problem with the handling, but that might be because I have ballast..... or do I?????

A washing machine would make good ballast )

Chris

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[boomer]

In the stern - but sorry, I don't know what and precisely where. Since it was apparently fitted by Birchwoods themselves, and to correct what appears to have been a design fault, it may have been moulded in. You may be interested in this extract from the MBM test, August 1998

<font color=blue>.....An aft-cockpit version of the boat was produced called the SS37, also known as the TS37 Super Sports. It had no aft-cabin and a very different layout forward with an en-suite owners cabin in the bow and a twin side cabin................50 built 1986 to 1993.......mostly for Mediterranean market.....
We made a crossing of the English Channel in one of the first Super Sports to be built and experienced a serious problem with it. Without the weight of the aft-cabin, it had an alarming tendency to dig its bow in and roll on to its side, on several occasions to the extent that we had green water running along the side decks. The problem was solved, we understand, by installing ballast in the stern</font color=blue>

Hope that helps. The 50 it seems that they made is more than I previously thought

 

[NorthernWave]

I'm sure we must have ballast as we've never encountered any more swaying than any other flybridge. Phew!!!
As you would expect we use the trim tabs to control the nose so no diving.

Chris

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[sfh]

Can't relate directly to cars, we deal in excavators, they have hour meters, an excavator works between 1500 and 2000 hours per year, indeed some excavators have Hino, Cat, Volvo, Scania, Iveco, VM etc wngines. At an average of 8-12000 hours an engine will be showing excessive wear, 2000 hours would be considered just about run in.