Sea C Rider carries three Yanmar diesel engines on board (one as the generator). While diesel engines are highly reliable, they do best with ongoing maintenance and care. Yanmar’s Rep, Mack Boring, offers an outstanding two day owner maintenance program which I attended this week.
The valuable hands on experience has helped me gain tons of confidence in maintaining, or at least understanding, what is happening with our power packs…. Great class.
http://mackboring.com/training/cat-4-yanmar/
During initial introductions I learned that one of my fellow training classmates is also planning to tackle the loop adventure. Gordon Baille, from Northern California, is retiring in 30 days and staring the trip from Chicago. He bought and is trucking a Nordic Ranger Tug from Salem, MA to a yet-to-be-determined marina in Chicago. He’ll begin the journey in July and plans to complete most of the trip single handed aboard “Sunny Tug”. We exchanged cards and plan to get together when he and Sunny Tug arrive in Chicago.
Hands on with a Yanmar 4LHA 
Gordon explaining the loop route to fellow Diesel classmates
Loopin' with Mike n Pam 