LIGHTER AND SIMPLER GAS TURBINE PACKAGES0 pages

“Cookin’
with Gas”
LIGHTER AND SIMPLER
GAS TURBINE PACKAGES
Some very special yachts have used gas turbines (GT): Ecstasea, Detroit Eagle,
WallyPower, Nobody and only a few others. However, despite wide aerospace,
military ship and plant usage of GTs along with the burgeoning use on (admittedly
mostly diesel electric) cruise vessels, these highly – though it must be said, very
narrowly and specifically – efficient power sources have yet to gain wide acceptance
and use, especially in production yachts. Inspired by the recent application of a
new approach on a Pershing 115, Tom Keefer of T3 Automation penned the following.
He makes his case for the wider use of GTs and explains what advances have been
made in Alarm Monitoring and Control to make use of their truly turn-key (or pushlever) operation. He further explains a new gearbox development which slims down
by a third over previous tubbier non-yacht-specific designs.