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Bertram31.com General Bulletin Board
Re: B28 Follow Up
Posted By: Ernest In Response To: B28 Follow Up (Rob)
Date: Thursday, 22 December 2005, at 10:02 a.m.
The sandwich construction of the engine beds is typical. Further, on many of them, the glassing into the forward and rear bulkheads are kinda rough. Perhaps rough not the rights word. More like - not perfectly faired.
RWC engines are preferred by some folks that run the boats alot. They will go thru engines just based upon the hours before corrosion becomes an issue with the blocks/heads. RWC makes it simple to work on and simple to trouble shoot. I ran my RWC B28 hard approx. 180 n.m. with a bad circulating water pump without any significant rise in temps because the crank mounted water pump did all the work. Don't think one could do that with FWC.
Everything else being equal, I would have preferred FWC. But, if the engines have a good bit of hours on them, you will likely replace them anyway.
Cockpit panels and interior panels look like trash on virutally all of them unless they have been replaced.
I think the water tank in the center is stainless.
To a large extent, you get what you pay for. If its a decent hull, question is whether you want to buy cheap and do the work as you go. Or pay more for someone else's labor and materials and fish tomorrow.
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