I agree Conrod, there are good points and bad points to both systems depending on where they are used. A lot depends on the quality of personnel in the engine room. You can have a manned engine room and still be called out on regular basis because the engineer had an alarm on the monitoring system a...

On the remote stop, does this trip the governor and place the fuel pumps to zero fuel? May want to test this after you find the issue with your fuel problem since it is suppose to be a safety feature of the engine. If this is a Canadian vessel and TCMSB inspector would come on board and test this fe...

The density of the boiler water would increase greatly with the production rate of the boiler. As the sea water flashes to steam, the solids in the water remain in the boiler, increasing the density of the water contained in the boiler. If a percentage of the water is not removed (blown out), the de...