how much would you pay to have a diesel eng. in ur boat?

[CP3]

yea I dont know of any marinas around here that sell diesel.....

[spenchey2]

Just wait when everone start offering diesels in there half-tons and in some SUVs. There was a point where diesel was a good idea, but not anymore. Can you say 6 dollars a gallon?

[johnsvt]

There was some guy that put a diesel in an xstar and got 4-6 gph with the diesel and was getting 12gph with the gasoline motor. I would guess that poor fuel mileage/usage is why MC is offering a diesel and the fact some MC owner's seem very willing to just pay more for their boats.

[mtnsmith]

That guy with the diesel X-Star is here in the St Petersburg, FL area. I have seen the boat wuite a few times and talked to him personally. It was an inline 6 cylinder Yanmar and was pretty impressive. The guy happens to be a Adib Mastry of Mastry Engine Center, the larget Yanmar dealer in the world so install/cost of diesel power plant was about the least of his worries. He has since sold that boat to someone else that I still see regularly out on the intracoastal. Mastry has put a diesel in a super air nautique also. I think the benefits of a diesel are great, but only if you have access to the off highway diesel offered at marinas that is not taxed as heavy and is not as stringently refined, it costs about the same as regular unleaded on land down here right now. To answer KKO's first question though...I would NOT pay $32k for a diesel.

[Tanner]

Currently for some reason... the "untaxed" offroad diesel is only $0.20 less that regular diesel, which is still wayyyy more than unleaded. Explain that one to me. But yet, the gov. has $0.70 tax on every gallon. I just bought 500 gallons of the stuff... so I'm up to date on the pricing.

[dogbert]

I'd love a diesel for more torque, not sure it's worth the price of a whole boat tho.

[Costigan]

Diesel is up to $4.11 here. I agree, would not be worth it even if it were free.

[mtnsmith]

Obviously pricing varies across the country, but here diesel on the water is only 3.20...gas on land is up to 3.33. It would still take forever to make up the cost of the diesel powerplant.

[FIC]

The 310hp diesel in the nautique only neted 8gph , with the 260hp it got 3.5gph, the mid range power exceded the pcm 6.0l I was there when they were testing different props to try and get the boat dialed in for tournament capability, very clean installation, I speculate cc will have the diesel option by 2009 model , also Mastercraft supposedly will be switching back to yanmar, from volkswagon since they have had issues with the vws. At this point those numbers dont justify a switch to diesel for a tige for our fuel effiecentcy is still better, however that being said I wonder what numbers a tige might pull with our better hull desigh.

[imscarlet]

Just been looking at the numbers here in New Zealand as I can get a supercharged marine diesel as a bolt in replacement for the chev SB for 30k. We buy Petrol for $1.89/ltr and Diesel for $1.46 so based on the 40% savings the 160hrs we have run the boat over this last season so far at an average consumption of 17ltrs/hour we would have saved $2,758.08 over the season.

[TeamAllen]

So almost an 11 year payback period, assuming prices stay the same.

[evil0ne]

You couldn't pay me to put one in my boat - even if you did it for free.

For free, sure. For $32K, no way.

[Lucky 275]

They would have to pay me to put a diesel in my boat.