Louvered side air vent

[Jkraft]

Grady, where is the blower exactly? Do you have a pic? I’ve got a blower switch on my dash but nothing powers on

[Pitou]

Where do the vent hoses connected to the pilot house Louvers go? I have a blower on each side of my engine compartment that connect to the lower vents (below the rub rail), through the blower, then just hangs down on the hull. I had the Marina install the ABS collector boxes, but there’s no vent hose connected. I can install a vent hose, but where does the other end go?
Thanks,
Eric

The 31/32TE is set up differently than the 28'. On the 28 there are no blowers and the upper intake vents generally had collector boxes with vent hose dropped into the engine bilge.

It sounds like you have gone forward with the purchase of the Bladen 32TE / 31. Is this the hull that you are referring to?
If so, it sounds like your hull is setup differently than the Albin production boats. Pictures will help.

The Albin production models have Oval Vetus vents midship below the rub rail with dorade collection boxes. These are wide open intake boxes with no hose connected

"Above" the rub rail on the cabin trunk are the rectangular exhaust vents with collector boxes connected to flexible vent hose to the blowers with hose then running along the forward bulkhead hung by zip ties to the front of the engine. The blowers are used to exhaust heat from the engine bay bilge space. I basically use these after shutdown to cool down the engine compartment.

I'll try to dig up some pictures.

[ESpiegel]

Yup, Handed over the check for it yesterday!
I'll take some pics today of the vents, blowers and ducting.

[Pitou]

Yup, Handed over the check for it yesterday!
I'll take some pics today of the vents, blowers and ducting.

Congratulations!

Here's an exterior picture describing the exterior vents. My engine bilge pictures are of other areas and don't really capture the vents all that well. Please share yours and I'll get some of mine.

Air Intake & Exhaust Blower.jpg

[ESpiegel]

Starboard side blower connected to engine intake vent, upper pilothouse vent not connected. Same with the port side.i didn’t check to see if the blowers are sucking air out of the boat, or intaking air.

[Pitou]

The large vents are for air intake. The rectangular vent on the side of the pilot house is where these blowers should be connected to not to where they are currently plumbed.

The blowers are designed to exhaust heat and or gasoline fumes for inboard boats and not to be run for introducing air for intake to the engine. You can check out descriptions for their use the Atwwod website .. here's a link to Atwood: http://www.attwoodmarine.com/store/prod ... bo-4000-ii There will be a link to the install instructions which specifically speak to setting these up for exhaust.

If Bladen installed them for intake then that would be incorrect and you should turn the blowers around. If you look closely, you'll see a directional arrow showing the flow of air when turned on.

It sounds like from your previous post that you had the yard put the SeaDog collection boxes in the rectangular vents on the pilot house .. move the blower exhaust to these locations and make sure that the blowers are setup to exhaust.
https://sea-dog.com/groups/2157-collector-box

[ESpiegel]

Thanks Kevin!
Happy new year!

[Pitou]

Blower set-ups .. hope that this helps!

Port Blower to Dorade Box.jpg

Port Blower to Engine Bilge.jpg

Starboard Blower to Dorade Box.jpg

Starboard Blower down to cross under pass through.jpg

Starboard crossing beneath pass through.jpg

I am in the midst of replacing hoses on the starboard side .. hose passes through vacant zip tie loops