They are 120's - we surpassed 10,000 hours last summer and are approaching 11,000 now. Thanks for watching, Jim

Detroit's love to bleed. They are into giving back. Lol

⬆️ and the Detroit's had ZERO RUST!!!! 👍

Thanks Allen, There is still more to do, but we enjoy the space and working to make it as clean as possible. Having the room to work makes all the difference in the world. Thanks for watching and commenting, Jim and Rosy

Thanks for watching. Those engines are not new. They are the original 43 year old engines! This summer we will surpass 10,000 hours of running time and 70,000 miles traveled. Thanks for the great compliment! Jim and Rosy

Thanks Vince, For us part of the joy of boating is the prep, working on the boat, etc. It just adds to the sense of accomplishment. Thanks for watching and commenting. Jim and Rosy M/V Sea Venture

John, Rosy loves it too -- and it was a "requirement" of Rosy's when looking for a long range trawler. Thanks for watching, Jim and Rosy

Glad you liked it and thanks. Jim

Joe, Thanks for watching and commenting. We just arrived in Port Townsend for the final phase of our refit. You have a great boat. My sister and her husband have a CHB 34 - They take it to the Broughton Islands and Alaska every summer. It's a great coastal cruising boat for the Northwest. We know your challenge - before Sea Venture we had a 45' Puget Trawler, with a single Ford Lehman 120 and no thrusters. We had her for 15 years. Over time you learn the best technique for your boat, and you learn where not to go in certain conditions. Remember, it's almost impossible to damage / crash your boat when anchoring! The Ford Lehman is a great and very forgiving engine. Just an FYI - Sea Venture's Lehman 120's have almost 9,000 hours with almost 60,000 NM's traveled. Just keep the sea water flowing, clean fuel, and use the engine and she is good to go. Hopefully we will get to cross paths at some point. We are going to leave right around June 1st for an offshore non-stop run to Sitka Alaska if the weather cooperates. Otherwise we will just run up the inside. We will return to the Puget Sound area late August or early September. Oddly enough, we belong to the Everett Yacht Club and a large group of us are going on a cruise ship to Glacier Bay on September 8th - so we have to return to Seattle in Sea Venture in time to go on an Alaskan cruise - go figure. If you have any Lehman questions I might be able to help with, you can always email me at cruisingseaventure@gmail.com. Happy Cruising, Jim and Rosy Addington

Thanks Ralph, We are glad you are enjoying and finding some value in the videos. We too are looking forward to cruising - once the refit is completed. Jim and Rosy

Welcome Aboard! Glad you are enjoying our videos. Jim

Al, Thanks for watching and commenting. The refit is done and the final video will be out shortly. We are headed off toward Alaska shortly and we will keep up with the videos as best we can. Jim and Rosy M/V Sea Venture

Thanks, Jim

John, Thanks for watching. We are excited too. We head back to Port Townsend on Sunday and they begin the superstructure installation first thing Monday morning. Jim and Rosy

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Glad you enjoyed it Jim

Jim?

missed a comma, and probably a Thanks. I'm Jim. Probably should have said, "Glad you enjoyed it, Thanks, Jim" :)

@@CruisingSeaVenture oh ic...lol.

Norman, 34 years as a sea going marine engineer. Well no wonder I can't keep up with your knowledge! One of the best things about making the videos is getting to interact with viewers who have so much to offer and that we can learn so much from. Thank you for your very nice review of our engine room space. We like the idea about sealing the spare drive belts in a bag. That makes a lot of sense. Ford Lehman's are not hard on belts and so far in our 18 years of cruising with Ford Lehman's we have never had a belt break or fail, but hopefully if one does it will be a lot easier to address with the belts staged and ready to go. The dampers do have to be manually closed. The other end of the wire has a handle. All 3 handles are located in the salon. While the FireBoy is automatic, it can also be discharged manually by a pull cable located in the salon. The FireBoy also has a status gauge located in the pilothouse. The fuel tank values are all manual gate values. There are the two in the engine room that are in the video and 2 more in the lazarette. The location of the dive compressor is still somewhat open. It could very well end up directly above the generator. It's not very big. Once we physically have it here we will figure out the exact placement based on what makes the most sense, makes accessing the filters on it for servicing easy, etc. We plan to install the actual fill hose and on/off switch remotely in the cockpit, so even though the compressor is located in the engine room, you will not need to take tanks to the engine room to fill. Again, thanks for watching, commenting, and having a sharp eye for the details. Jim and Rosy

Mark, Awesome. I saw you email me too. We just got hauled out today at the Co-Op in Port Townsend! I'll give you a call in the next day or so and give you some info re: the Co-Op and our experience - which has been all very positive! Thanks for watching, Jim and Rosy Addington

Thanks. That is exactly what it is. A one gallon bleach bottle with the bottom cut out. Otherwise Lehmans will drip oil from the blow by. It's not much, but it keeps it a little more tidy. Thanks for watching, Jim

Tim, Here is an odd one regarding WD40. Local fisherman squirt some WD40 inside herring they are using for bottom fish - they all swear you will catch more fish as a result because it's main ingredient is fish oil. We haven't tried it yet, but we are going to the next time we are Halibut fishing.

Roy, We do have a large hatch in the cockpit right next to the washer and dryer. Our engines are Ford Lehman 120 HP engines, with just over 10,000 hours. You can find a lot more info about Sea Venture on our website, CruisingSeaVenture.com. There is also an engine room tour video on KZfaq as well. Thanks for watching, Jim

Thanks for watching. We have large air intakes for the engines plus a blower to evacuate air if needed. Our engine room sits right at 85 degrees F when cruising, so it doesn't get too hot. We only burn 3.15 gallons per hour at 7 knots so I think our efficiency is looking pretty good. Thanks, Jim

Thanks. The dive compressor has an external air supply! Thanks for watching, Jim

Ryan, Great observation and question. You are absolutely correct, we are eliminating most of the benefit of 2 stage filtering. I think there is great cases to be made for both approaches. Here is our reasoning for using 2 micron filters in the duel racors. 1) The inline filters on the Lehman are a bitch to change. I know lots of Lehman owners that have struggled to get them not to leak after changing. 2)They are also hard to get off and change without spilling fuel everywhere. 3) After changing them, you have to bleed the fuel system before you can restart the engine. 4) By running a 2 micron on the duel Racor 500 it eliminates these issues. I can change from one filter to the 2nd staged filter while running by just flipping a lever. I can then change the dirty filter and if I choose, flip back without ever missing a beat while running. 5) I have no way to monitor the inline engine filters. I have vacuum gauges on the racors, which tells me how much pull is required to get the fuel through the filter. I know the exact spot on the gauge where the engine will start to be starved of fuel. We check this gauge with each engine room check while running to ensure all is good. (We could run a second set of gauges to the pilot house to monitor the filters but I have not done this) 6) Lastly, we have friends that circumnavigated in their Nordhavn 52' and this was their method and it served them well. I do still change the inline filters once a year, but because of how they are constructed, you can not see their condition. I currently change the racors every 200 hours, even though they really don't need it. At 200 hours the racor 2 micron filters are just slightly discolored. Our friends in their Nordhavn have more courage then I, they don't change the filter until the needle starts to move on the vacuum gauge, which for them is about 800 hours) I think, but it's only just a theory, that I'm still getting some benefit of 2-stage filtering. Racor's materials actually do not say they remove all debris that is 2 micron's or larger, but just that it's the most particulate 2 micron and larger will be caught. I believe the actual manufacturing of the filter leaves the openings variable in the filter. So maybe, if a 5 micron piece gets through the 1st filter, it would be captured by the 2nd. That may all be overdoing it. The Ford Lehman and it's injector pump are very forgiving and I believe are fine with larger particulate. When we had the injector pumps rebuild (An expensive project completed every 5,000 hours) an internal inspection found virtually no evidence of particulate. When the injectors are removed and serviced they also have shown no signs of particulate. We also have the benefit of epoxy lined fiberglass fuel tanks, so there is no rust, deterioration, or condensation to speak of inside the tanks. All of our tanks also have 2 - 24" ports that can be opened to clean the inside of the tanks. The last time the ports were opened the tanks we almost spotless inside. Also, in case we did run into a problem, the 2nd racor filter for each engine not being used, is a 10 micron filter. So if we did have problem and we switch to the 2nd filter we would have a little more time before clogging another filter. We carry a large stock (about 30 of each) filter on board. Like I said, I think there are good arguments both ways about how to set up the filters. For me, I really like not messing with those inline filters. Like our fuel tanks, the water tanks are fiberglass as well. (the hull is the outside of all our tanks) The inside walls are 1" thick solid fiberglass (the hull is 1.5" solid fiberglass), so I don't think they transfer heat very much. Our engine room, in the Northwest runs at 91 degrees when cruising. Sea Venture spent 20 years cruising the tropics (Caribbean, Central America, South America, Mexico and the South Pacific) before coming to the Northwest. I have all the detailed logs from those travels (60,000 NM in all). Where the air and water temperature where the highest, the engine room climbed to about 110 degrees. I think we benefit from a large space, and the fact we only run the Lehmans at 1,500 RPM's so they are not working very hard. We also have a large exhaust fan we can turn on to move more air. Lastly, if we choose, we can also divert one of the A/C units onboard to the engine room. Again, great questions and thank you for watching, commenting, and asking. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Jim

Chuck, Thanks for watching. Actually quite a bit has changed. I should probably update the video. We have a complete new electrical system, inverters, lithium batteries, dive compressor, new larger hot water heater and a new fresh water manifold system since the video was done. The cameras are in process now. Thanks, Jim

Nice work. Love watching the videos. Only 16 more years until my retirement adventures to the north!

Steven, We are glad you are enjoying the videos and thanks for the compliment. 1,200 hours - not really even broken in yet. The retrofit fuel filter kits came from Harbor Marine in Everett, but I think the company that was making them has stopped doing so and I don't know if they have a new idea / source. In any event, at this point I would actually not recommend this change for a couple of reasons. The whole reason we made the change was because the other filters seem like such a mess to change and occassionally want to drip fuel. The retro fit kits were about $250 each, so to do 2 engines, it cost about a $1,000.00. Twice we have had an issue with them leaking. Both times they went from perfectly fine to a steady stream of fuel pouring out between the filter and the retro unit face. Both times are when we have been cruising for awhile and then reduced RPM to an idle, and both times it made a big mess of fuel everywhere. I think if they are still being made they need some more engineering at the filter to retro surface interface. At least the original system, while it might want to drip occiasionally I've never had them create a stream of fuel coming out. On the old filters sytems I know cruisers have had issues with the plastic drain knob that doesn't seem to work at the bottom of the unit. I've seen cruisings remove this plastic know, tap a bolt tread into the aluminum and plug the hole. In any event, I would recommend you do all the other updates and think about that one some more. I think the most valuable update you can do is the coolant overflow - It helps ensure the engine runs full of coolant at the optimum temperature. I have been at Fisheries a lot (will be there again today), and at 6'6" it's a little hard to blend in. We are behind but working on getting the final refit video edited and put together. We just returned to Everett with the project done and we think it looks great. Hopefully we will get a chance to see you out on the water. Again, thanks for watching and commenting, Jim and Rosy Addington

Great advice, thank you. Yes, the overflow and raw water pump are highest on our list. I'll be sure to say hello next time, in Fisheries or out on the water. Looking forward to seeing the results of your refit. Keep up the excellent videos!

Hi Kathy, Thanks for watching and commenting. We both seem to be getting to the age where it's all about repair and maintenance. Rosy had Carpal Tunnel Surgery week before last. She did the other wrist last year and was really happy with the results, so she wanted the left one done before we we are gone for the summer on the boat. Jim and Rosy

Our refrigerators and freezers (2 of each) are powered 24/7. If interested on power / batteries / etc, you might enjoy our electrical upgrade video we did earlier this year. Here is a link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qbKhY8mSuc7dkYk.html Thanks for watching, Jim

@@CruisingSeaVenture Saw the video. I hope you received more than enough, thank you notes, thumbs up and other forms of positive acknowledgments. I for one appreciate the time, care and attention you put into it..........

The inline filters on a Lehman are 5 micron filters. Like most Lehman owners we run 2 micron filters in the Racors because the inline filters are such a hassle to change. Our tanks are epoxy lined fiberglass tanks with 2 - 24" opening ports in each tank, making them very easy to keep clean. After 200 hours the 2 microns are barely discolored. Thanks, Jim

Our engine room is large enough it does not run too hot, in the mid-90’s while cruising. We have a built in exhaust blower that can quickly exchange the air as well. Lastly, we can also divert one of our air conditioners to the engine room if we want it cooler. Thanks, Jim

Melissa, Thanks for watching and commenting. Sea Venture is 54' LOA, built by Choey Lee in 1977. It's their LRC (Long Range Cruiser) model. She was designed and built specifically for offshore travel and passagemaking. Some basic info is: Fully loaded, she weighs in at about 45 tons She carries 2,160 US gallons of diesel in 4 tanks She carries 1,200 gallons of fresh water, plus has a 300 gallon per day watermaker. She is powered by twin 120 HP Ford Lehmen engines, which combined, burn 3.15 gallons of diesel per hour at 7 knots, giving her a 4,300 NM range with 10% reserve We will work in an interior tour during the course of our summer cruising videos! Again, thanks, Jim and Rosy

Thanks Jim and Rosy. My husband and I dream of one day doing exactly what you two are doing. Glad to see you living the dream!

Rick, Not a dumb question at all. I think it's a great one to add to the end of our next video as well. The engine room is directly below our salon. The floor is fiberglass, except, hidden in the floor is a 3' x 7' hatch. In the engine room you need to remove the sound proofing from the ceiling and in the salon you have to remove the carpet, then a 1/2" plywood layer. That would then reveal the hatch, which is made of 1" plywood. You would now have a 3' x 7' opening going directly into the engine room. Boat yards have cranes that are on a very long horizontal arm. The crane could then reach over the back of the boat, through the door and directly above the hatch. Not an easy task, but most importantly, doable. Thanks for watching and asking, Jim

Interesting and creative. Is that also how you got the freezer and laundry equipment into the lazarette?

Rick, The lazarette hatch is big enough for the washer, dryer, and freezer to fit down into. This hatch is in the cockpit and we use it daily. Thanks, Jim

Thanks. Those "shiney" engines will pass the 9,000 hours and 60,000 NM marks this summer. The oil pressure gauges are: Ashcroft 50mm Pressure Gauge Dial Size: {50} 50mm (2") Dial Type: {1008} Stainless Steel System Material: {S} 316 Stainless Steel Liquid Filled: {L} Liquid Filled - Glycerine (standard) Connection Size: {02} 1/4 NPT Male Connection Type: {B} Lower Back Unit of Measure: Single > PSI Pressure Range: {30IMV&100#} 30/0/100 psiA link to their product web page with the gauge is: www.ashcroft.com/products/pressure_gauges/industrial_gauges/1008s-sl-pressure-gauge.cfm Hope this helps and thanks for watching and commenting, Jim and Rosy Addington

Thanks so much. I will be ordering a gauge for my single 120. Enjoying your refit videos.

9000 hours, fantastic. Our 1981 engine is approx 3,500hrs. Do you get oil drips below the air intake filter, via the breather hose? After 4 hours of runtime, I get a few oil drips below the filter. I hope it is normal vs the beginning of a "blow by" issue. Cheers from Long Beach CA.

Remember, I'm no expert, but my experience is what you are experiencing is normal and of no concern. We have installed a cut in half upside down bleach bottle in this location to catch the oil drips. If you email me at cruisingseaventure@gmail.com I can send you a picture. Thanks, Jim

I do not know about bulletproof, but we have just done what made sense to us after a lot of cruising. We have been cruising since the early 90’s, so if nothing else, we have had a chance to see what works and doesn’t. Thanks, Jim

@@CruisingSeaVenture thank you

We have 2 - 500 gallon tanks plus 2 - 600 gallon tanks of diesel, for a total of 2,200 gallons. Range is about 4,300 NM at 7 knots. One of our videos is on fuel management. You might enjoy the video where a lot more info is provided. Thanks, Jim

Also, i should have mentioned the tanks you see in the engine room tour video are not fuel tanks - they are water tanks. Each water tank holds 600 gallons of fresh water. Thanks, Jim

@@CruisingSeaVenture thanks

@@CruisingSeaVenture Very interesting lifestyle. It was always my dream to do what you and the Mrs. Sea Venture have done, Jim. I'm 66 and the girlfriend is 67 and she can't swim, but when the vaccine finally gets to us we'll go back to traveling.

Sysavatar, you are correct - Sea Venture does not have water tight doors for the engine room. The engine room access is from above the engine room down a hatch in the lazzarette - which can be locked down and water tight, and the door on the starboard side of the boat where you go down a ladder about 8 feet into the engine room. That door is not water tight. We have thought about changing the doors out, but so far have elected not to. Sea Venture has cruising about 75,000 nautical miles of ocean travel with no issues - it's something we may do in the future, but for now it's not on the schedule. Thanks for watching and commenting. Jim and Rosy

Hi, The engine room is equipped with a Fireboy automatic fire suppression system. Thanks, Jim

Hi Nicholas, There are two poles in the engine room. The smaller one just on the left side of the starboard engine has always been there. It just gives something to hold onto in the middle of the engine room while underway. The second larger pole by the generator was added when we did the refit on Sea Venture. It has a new fiberglass bulkhead underneath it. There is another pole directly above it in the salon, which is then adding strength to our salon roof, where are 800 lb tender sits. Hope that answer your question. Thanks for watching, Jim

@@CruisingSeaVenture Thank you for your answer and getting back to me so fast!

Hi, thanks a lot for watching. We probably do engine room checks more often then needed. When on long passages we probably average every 4 hours. It is more often then normal, but we are lucky that it is so easy. Just go through the door and complete the checklist, which takes about 90 seconds. Its just become a habit over the years. An exception to our frequency is if one of us is sleeping. In that case we wait until the other one is awake. In our old boat you had to lift up the salon floor to get to the engine area and in that boat we rarely did engine room checks while the engine was actually running. Thanks, Jim

Hi Steve. Sea Venture is 54' long. Thanks, Jim

Hi Antonio, Sea Venture is a 1977 Cheoy Lee LRC (Long Range Cruiser). We did a boat tour video as well you might enjoy. Thanks for watching and commenting. Jim

Joseph, We enjoy cruising and taking our home with us for extended times. It's a lifestyle choice. We have been cruising for almost 30 years and really enjoyed it. As far as being in the ocean or on the coast, if you have the right boat (one designed for this purpose) it's not a big deal. Regarding the cost, if someone has any concern about the cost per mile, then they should not own a large boat. We in general have not calculated or been concerned about the cost of cruising. Thanks for watching, Jim