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Volvo Penta D11 Running Smoothly After Five Years
Water Proof, a 42-foot, custom-built Northern Bay sportfishing boat, completed in 2016, is running at its best with a Volvo Penta D11, 670-horsepower engine. It features yacht-quality amenities for up to six passengers and two crew, and is perfectly geared for multi-day, long-range fishing trips to catch tuna, swordfish, and mahi-mahi, up to 150 miles [...]
Lightweight Sportfishing Yacht Reaches 55 Knots
Composite Yacht, located on the eastern shore of Maryland, is a family-owned and run business, which was started by the Hardy family. They have been building one-of-a-kind boats for the past 23 years. “The now owner of the boat called and asked me to build a 55-foot yacht that could reach 55 knots,” says Lewis [...]
Repowering the Harbor Queen Improves Fuel Consumption and Speed
Devon Grosswiler grew up around boats as a member of the Tibbels Marina family. As an adult, he’s stayed in the industry, working as a certified Volvo Penta diesel technician during the week and spends his weekends during the fishing season operating as the owner/operator of the charter fishing boat, Harbor Queen. From the late [...]
Johnson & Towers’ Partnership with Viking Strengthens Boating Industry
Relationships that are built and then last for over 50 years are hard to come by. Johnson & Towers, an Indel Power Group company, and Viking Yacht Company celebrate 58-years of a successful business relationship this April. “Viking was started in 1964 by my father and uncle,” says Pat Healey, President and CEO, Viking Yacht [...]
Pilot Boats Running Well with Volvo Penta Engines
Pilot Boats Running Well with Volvo Penta Engines The Association of Maryland Pilots have been enjoying the superior performance of Volvo Penta engines installed in two pilot boats built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset, Massachusetts. The project team members consisted of JD Messler, Marine Territory Sales Manager, Johnson & Towers, a member of Indel Power [...]
Success of Charter Business Rides on D6s
“The engines are running awesome. With or without a load, we’re burning three gallons of fuel per hour, cruising at 16–17 mph,” says John Tibbels, owner and captain at Tibbels Fishing Charter Service, a family-owned company started by his grandfather and great uncle in 1921. Located in Marblehead, Ohio, Tibbels has repowered his custom-built Laux fishing [...]
Sea Creature Comes to Life with Volvo Penta D13s
Your engines are smoking. “Not exactly the words any boat captain wants to hear,” says Steve “Creature” Coulter, captain of Sea Creature, in Hatteras Village, NC. “I knew about the problem, and replaced the turbos, but the engines were still smoking. After realizing the injectors were bad and the engines needed to be rebuilt, I found [...]
