Installing an auxiliary engine
It’s been 30 years since I last owned a boat, then last year, with retirement looming and my family having flown the nest, I decided to get a wee boat for the Broads and to go up and down the coast between London and, say, Kings Lynn… Maybe over to Holland.
So my wife, Karen, and I bought a Jersey 36 in beautiful condition and are slowly getting her the way we want her ready for fun times during retirement.
The single engine with bow and stern thrusters makes extremely easy to manoeuvre on rivers and at slow speed while the 250hp Vetus gives us the power to
