...both were interviewed in separate magazine articles. Both mentioned diesels as the next wave of low maintenance, high efficiency for performance boats.
Scism had a big cat (38', I think) with twin Yanmars that ran 100+, burned 1/3 the fuel of blown BBCs, and had rebuilt intervals in the 1000's of hrs vs 100's of hrs for gas engines.
Smith in a separate article talked about the same benefits - lower fuel consumption, much longer service intervals and more reliability vs the current state of the art gas engines.
So, what does everyone think about diesels in high performance (non-race) boats? Anyone seen any +70mph oil burners on the water?