There's surely no contest

[MickJ]

There\'s surely no contest

I keep reading strings about the pros and cons of diesel versus petrol. There's surely no contest...

1- If you spend £10K more on a diesel in the first place, you will get the £10K back when you sell it. There is no long/medium/short term saving with a petrol engine.
2- Diesels cost more to service, but generally last longer.
3- You can sell a diesel boat. Yawn...dont even mention the cost of fuel.
4- Diesels are safer.
5- Diesel engines are big and brutish looking and smell a lot!!



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[hlb]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

Whats this I keep hearing about diesels costing more to service. Mine gets a filter a change of oil, maybe some belts and an impellor. So what do petrols miss out??

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Haydn

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

Agreed. Also what nobody has mentioned is that petrols are not an option anyway on anything much over 35-40' because you need big torque to get the boat onto the plane and you wont get that from a normally aspirated petrol engine

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[EME]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

Yes but some (one) person just likes being contrary and creating spurious experience and argument to question those of you that do.

The best argument that I can find for petrol in in inboard fit-out is that initial outlay is cheaper, and if funds are short that obviously is a bonus.

As you know, even in the Med where the diesel/petrol relative diffce is less there are few petrol powered cruise boats

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[TroyTempest]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

Another point to consider is the accessibility of your chosen fuel. More marinas have Diesel - certainly from my experience which certainly isn't spurious having run out and hobbled into Inverkip on the outboard only to be greeted with "We only have Diesel!"

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[AJW]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

The availability issue is absolutely key. Few marinas sell petrol and those that do charge a fortune for it. (e.g. Suffolk Yacht Harbour £1.10 a litre!). With any decent size engine fuel consumption and thus quantities of petrol needing to be bought mean that humping cans from a garage is an impossibility. (particularly as the regulations on how much petrol you can put in cans and in the car seem to be more rigorously enforced post the great tanker drivers strike a couple of years ago.) So once your boat is larger than a trail boat IM very HO it is a no brainer to go for diesel despite the greater capital cost etc.

AJ

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[oldgit]

Re:No contest Diesels Throb NM.

NM

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[SlowlyButSurely]

Re:No contest Diesels Throb NM.

My old petrol engined boat solved this question for me when a broken fuel pipe deposited 50 gallons of petrol in the bilge and on starting the engine the whole boat went up in flames. Not something I would fancy risking again!

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[mainshiptom]

Re: There\'s surely no contest

And what about our lovely generators and heating that share this lovely red stuff!

Tom

p.s. I got told the other day that my engines sound great, I will take that as a compliment I am sure they did not mean noisy??


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[tcm]

Re: wow - and Hurrah

Cripes this sounds quite story! I am very pleased to see another forumite with passing experince of needlessly torching expensive machinery. Welcome!

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