Motor-boat owners like to cruise … and more often than not the engine is a beast hidden deep in a cave at the bottom of the boat. Unnecessary costs often arise due to lack of proper maintenance and/or ignorance of simple procedures.

Let’s talk about the differences between diesel and petrol
engines. Rudolf Diesel developed the idea for the diesel engine and obtained the German patent in 1892. His goal
was to create an engine with high efficiency to offer an
alternative to petrol engines. The petrol engine (Otto cycle)
had been already invented in 1876 and developed further around 1892, but was still inefficient.
The main differences between diesel and petrol engine
are: [Read more...]