Marine engines are serious money.
There are a lot of good specs on that website.
Steyr has some cool engines. Their marine engines and some military spec engines have a special mode where if the electronics fail, they can be run in a purely mechanical back-up mode so you don't get stranded.
http://www.steyr-motors.com/products/images/6zyly.jpgThis is a 6 cylinder with 450 lbs.ft torque!
Steyr has some cool engines. Their engines have a special mode where if the electronics fail, they can be run in a purely mechanical back-up mode so you don't get stranded.
Now there's an engineer who's lived and experienced a little, eh? I'd love to have a TDI in a boat but I'd be a little leery about getting service in some remote port. On the TDI in a boat topic :
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=273670 A guy from BC posted in that post. He built a 18' jetboat with a 150 PD engine! He uses it as a real workhorse.