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Think twice.
Huge maintenance costs and without a trolling valve the diesel will be too fast. Good ride into a head sea, god-awful in a following sea.
I remember when Cordeiro re-powered his boat with a diesel. He had the mechanic down there every day for a summer trying to slow it down. I don't think he was ever happy with the result. Probably why he ended up drifting scup at the end. For decades before he could get what he wanted dragging wire.
As good as Cordeiro was, I think Sabatowski was on another level yet. Indeed, I recall hearing that most of what Cordeiro learned came from Sabatowski. Whether true or not, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Sabatowski learned what he knew from scratch. Cordeiro came to the game much later.
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