harelip, as you stated, those are military engines. Not very good engines, but
designed specificly to be able to use "multi fuels". However, *if* you try to
run them on gasoline you will find they don't run all that long. They really
are diesel engines with spark plugs to make them easier to start in cold
weather by dumping a high level of gas into the diesel fuel. Remember Korea
and the problems the military had with the cold?

harelip? you think the Andrea Gail had a surplus military multi-fuel engine in
it and the writer Sebastian Younger somehow managed to miss that tidbit?

There's the old Continental Model LDS-465-1A. 600hp Multi Fuel. Miltary
surplus for the most part, you can still buy them pretty cheap. They run on
diesel and use spark plugs. There's a good nuber of them out there
propelling mid size commercial fishing boats still.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
so, base kisser, just *which* diesel engines (as used on longliner fishing
boats) have spark plugs did you say?

base kisser, you stated the engine on the Andrea Gail might well have
had
**ELECTRICAL** ---- PLUGS ---- on its drive engine and the only
diesel
engine
you could name that you felt had **ELECTRICAL PLUGS** was
a --------------
Perkinns -------------- 4-108.

base kisser? do you always have this much trouble trying to read
English?

base kisser, the discussion has always been about the engine in the
Andrea
Gail
(check the headline). so why hell are *you* talking about fishing
from
a
bridge over some fricken' creek?????

Again, stupid, please show where I've ever said anything about the
Andrea Gail and a Perkins diesel.



Again, you stupid ****ing idiot, I NEVER mentioned any particular
diesel engine. Damn it, will you LOOK at the damned posts before
making such dumb statements?