CRM Diesel Engines?

Run away as fast as your feet will allow and no, good luck on any support in the states.

Forget running , take a vehicle and get as far away as you can

WOOD boat and 3 18 cylinder CRN engines???? You need to not run or take a car, but you need a fighter jet to run from this one!

There are even more exotics than the CRM diesels, look at these Russian diesels, 7 RADIAL banks at 6 cylinders per bank! 42 cylinders in total.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_M503
For military use, wonder if they ever found their way into a yacht???

An even better article:
https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/09/05/yakovlev-m-501-and-zvezda-m503-and-m504-diesel-engines/

Napier Deltics are another of those ex military engines that made their way onto a couple of yachts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic

I don't Know, as far as a 1970 Pichiotti goes its certainly a timeless design of that period & it has had some serious re-fits and upgrades over the years it seems. By looking at the listings pictures you can see the amount of money spent on the interior joinery and fine accessories. There's new Maxwell VW series windlasses on the fore deck & LED lighting up grades with Vimar switches on the interior, Techma heads and of course the required Bang and Olufsen surround sound with remote pads in the state rooms. The machinery space has been updated with Onan Cummins Gens, looks like a newer main switch board on the fwd bulk head in lieu of the Landucci Federigo panels of that time period But, You just have to have one look at those beautiful CRM diesels with remotely mounted injection pumps over the gear boxes and eighteen VERY long injector pipes leading forward to the heads, The jumble of cooling pipe work that resembles spaghetti to get your heart and pocket book racing and the resulting cold sweats thinking about how to get to any one attachment or system on the motor you have to disassemble 4 others. I do like the placement of the chiller above the center engine as that usually ends in a "no problem water situation" sooner than later and while I'm talking about the center motor, never Have I ever come across a triple engine vessel with the hour meters synced up mirroring hours x 3 motors as the listing states . Unfortunately, the center engine in a triple installation is always the Red headed step child and usually has just a fraction of the wing engine hours for obvious reasons . On a positive engine room note: it does appear to have overhead soft patches installed from where the current motors were installed in 2000 and these soft patches are now immediately available to accommodate removal of the offending CRM units and replacing with new tier III lumps of iron.. I would estimate 1.5 million to repower as a twin removing the centerline motor and performing all of the necessary drive line shafting & girder mods to repower this vessel with Cat C-32 's or similar. other than the repower , nice looking classic Pichiotti.

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Its a shame because the boat looks to have been gone through several times and the interior has been re-fit to a high level at great expense and this vessel would have sold for a much higher ask if it weren't for the CRM mains. If this vessel was re- powered with MTU 2000 series or Cats in '2000 it would have been sold pronto, however, to have that type of a vessel in the states be it the east or west coast would be a lesson in "OMG" what have I done between no frequency converter installed to plug into U.S. standard 60 Hz 240 v AC and the Euro/ Italian centric equipment aboard like the Condaria chiller and Gianneschi pumps and other non standard U.S. parts and systems. Parts can be had for these systems in the U.S. but at a very high premium compared to other brands.
Why are you searching in the Med for a boat? Does your principal want to purchase a vessel in the Med and cruise that area for couple of years before returning stateside?