Gordon Wedman wrote:

Which is a tractor engine converted by several manufacturers
(Universal,
Westerbeake, Sole) to a marine engine.
This may not necessarily be bad however I would prefer an engine
purpose-built as a marine engine. One thing with the Kubota, you
can get
some parts cheaper by going to the tractor dealers as opposed to
the marine
dealers.

Am on another list with a guy from OZ who has an extensive background
with both Yanmar and Kubota.

These days he is in the Kubota camp.

Lew