A Westerbeke 3 cyl. 5.0 KW was generator was installed in the Aegir-Ran about 2002. Not only was it a very poor decision to put 400 lbs of steel in the stern of the boat, as far as we can tell, it was installed during the rebuilding of the cockpit and dropped into the engine room before being fiberglassed in. There is very poor access to genset and consequently it is not possible to provide proper maintenance. Amazingly, only 50 hours have been put on the genset in twenty years, and we were told by the previous owner that it is “frozen.” Unfortunately, it is not possible to remove the genset with out first removing the primary engine. This was accomplished today by our diesel mechanic Omar with the help of his brother.
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