african adventurer wrote:
Hi,

I'm looking for advice on buying a boat for sport-fishing in Africa.
Well, more specifially I am looking for advice on what sort of engine I
should be looking out for with regard to reliability. Any advice would
be greatly appreciated.

Cheers


Sounds like you want a go exploring & why not but a simple breakdown far
enough away for a viable repair can wreck the boat as surely as a reef.

You say "Africa" but that can be lots of places & exactly where can be
relevant. Up the top & down the bottom of Africa you can get parts & in
places like Sth Africa world franchise service etc for most of the big
brands including, Cat, Cummins, Volvo, Yanmar etc. All these engines are
sport boat oriented or at least can be had as sport boat high output
engines so they're reasonably "high tech" which is a good thing.

If you're talking some of the more remote or less developed parts of
Africa then you might consider a more easily maintained engine like any
of the multitude of brands based on more old tech (say Perkins although
the latest there is no longer low tech either:-))

K