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Propulsion

Yanmar Engine Repowers

Another decade of running, decided properly

You already know the engine is near the end. You plan around it, you listen to it on the way out of the channel, and the parts conversation gets longer every year. The question is not whether it needs doing. It is whether the boat is worth it, and what it takes to do it once, properly.

A repower is not an engine swap

The engine is the part you order. The job is everything around it: beds, alignment, shaft or sail drive, exhaust, controls and instrumentation, fuel system, wiring, and whatever has to come apart to get the old one out and the new one in. On most boats that means fiberglass work, metal fabrication and electrical in the same job as the mechanical work.

All of those trades are ours, under one roof. Nothing in the schedule waits on a subcontractor’s calendar, and nobody hands the boat between shops mid-job.

Yanmar logo — Essential Shipyard is a Gold-Level Certified Yanmar Dealer in Anacortes and La Conner, Washington

Yanmar Engine Repowers

We are a Gold-Level Certified Yanmar dealer, so factory diagnostics, genuine parts and the Yanmar warranty stand behind the engine we fit, at both yards.

Yanmar flying Y emblem — certified Yanmar engine repowers and service at Essential Shipyard
Yanmar flying Y emblem — genuine Yanmar parts and warranty support at Essential Shipyard

Quoted, every time

What moves the number

Two boats of the same length can be a long way apart, and the engine itself is often the smaller half of it. This is what we are looking at when we quote, so you can read ours and anyone else’s with the same eye.

  • Access. What has to come apart to get the old engine out, and what has to be rebuilt afterwards.
  • The beds. Whether they take the new engine as they are, or have to be modified or rebuilt.
  • Shaft or sail drive, and the alignment work that goes with it.
  • Exhaust, controls and instrumentation. Rarely a straight swap.
  • The fuel system — tankage, lines, filtration, and what condition it is in.
  • Electrical. Harness, panel, charging and whatever else is being brought up to date at the same time.

We quote from the boat, not from the phone.

Tell us the boat and the engine

Make, length, what is in it now and how many hours are on it. You get an estimate within 48 working hours, and a firm quote once we have seen the job.

Having the bottom done while the boat is out? Instant estimate.

Free for every customer

A complimentary 18-point inspection

An expert technician tests the boat’s systems and writes up every point as Excellent, Good, Monitor, Attention or Critical — a written report telling you what is sound, what to keep an eye on, and what has to be dealt with before it goes back in the water. Free with every job.

EXCELLENT

GOOD

MONITOR

ATTENTION

CRITICAL