BIG REVS AND BIG SPACE
For old farts like me, the concept of powering a trawler yacht with a relatively high-revving engine is at odds with my beliefs.
In trawler yachts such as the Island Gypsy 32 from the ‘80s, there would normally be a single straight-six Ford diesel pumping out 120hp at a lazy 2500rpm.
The trouble is these engines were fairly long and bulky and in hulls such as the 32, would limit sleeping accommodation to two adults in a vee-berth forward.
As trawler designers strived to provide more accommodation in hulls of this length, the answer was to swap sixes for fours.
An example
