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Badger wrote:
One other comment... One of my big concerns if we were to buy a dual screw motor yacht or large diesel single is the ongoing costs of engine repair/maintainence. Rebuilding to big diesels is not something that we want to do. Sure any engine can need costly repairs earlier than it should. I am hoping that they are easier to stomach on small 4cyl
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*Maintenace costs on a low hour diesel are low, repair costs non-existent.* Most decent engines will outlast their owners, unless ignored.* A low end trawler diesel might go 5,000 hours - at 250 hours per year typical, that is 20 years.* A good diesel will last 20,000 to as much as 50,000 hours without major work.* That's a long time for most cruisers.* Others may have different opinions, but in 35 years of cruising, my repair bill on diesel engines is so low as to be equivalent to zero.