Thanks for your thoughts.
We use the engines very modestly, but our desalinator is run off of our sb engine (uses a power washer head as the pressurizer), so that has been the main reason for the high hours. Port side has a high output Balmar alternator, and before converting to lithium house bank, it saw some use for charging. Now don't need it. In all, we have only put 1000 hours on each engine in 7 years, and mostly not for motoring, although we try to combine our tasks (motor and watermarking or charging).
I will think about upsizing, because there have been times when we needed max power for 30-45 minutes to get into our out of a pass against current/waves/wind. And we really needed everything that the diesels could give just to inch forward. Very unusual, and with better planning could have avoided it.
On the other hand, people have sailed the same spots without engines, so it may just be a matter of adjusting expectations and allowing inconvenience not to frustrate and then live with a 12 kw system.
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Flip
42' Catamaran
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