Main Engine Room of AMIBON
Channel: SailAmibon
Date: 20/01/2012

The main engine room lays beneath the deckshouse and is easily accessibly in two ways:
Either through the seat at the nav-station, where from a ladder leads straight down or through the watertight door in the aft crew bathroom. 

In case the engine needs to be removed there also is a recess in the roof of the deckshouse that can be removed just like the floor-boards in the deckshouse.

By and large the engine room offers standing hight of some 6' (1,80m) and the engine is very(!) accessible from all side. Same holds true for the RACOR Diesel Filters and Water Seperators. Each Diesel engine on board has a dual-system, so one can switch from one filter to another one if one would get clogged, to warrant continuous operation. 

The pumps (one of the 220V bilge pumps, the 24V bilge pump and the heavy duty 220V fire pump) also are easily accessibly and large, heavy duty valves allow for precise selecting what bilge to pump from (even so, AMIBON almost has no bilges(!) since pretty much the entire area below the floor boards is taken up by tanks; some 6.500 Liters of Diesel, equally much of fresh water, plus approx 1.000 Liters of black water and another 1000 Liters of grey water).

Ventilation to the engine room is provided by two large vents foreward and aft of the deckshouse, both of which come with storm-shutters so that they can be sealed off in heavy weather.