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Originally Posted by SVTatia
If I was cheap I would buy a Vetus...
Calm down, this was a joke!
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That's not a joke. That is reality
Looked at those engines close up not too long ago. Not bad engines I believe but designed in the stone-age. I'm guessing they source them from a Mitsubishi museum. The weight
power ratios are from last century.
Price levels in
Holland are pretty much the same as
Volvo Penta by the way.
In
Holland these engines are popular for
motor boats. Very few end up in sailing yachts.
Volvo Penta uses
Perkins blocks as well, just like Westerbeke. VP and
Yanmar are the most popular amongst sailing yachts on side of the pond