Tim,
Mr Dickie is powered by a WW2 vintage 4-cylinder Buda diesel engine that originally powered a Navy launch. Grigg Jr. had purchased two of them at auction years ago after they had apparently gone through depot-level maintenance
He still has the second one. The engine sounded great and had a really cool low throaty resonance, especially when the throttle was advanced with enthusiasm. It gave us a very steady and firm push for 16 hours. It moved Mr. Dickie along nicely at about 950 RPMs for 7.5 knots (~ 6-7 MPH).
It's gentle hum at 950 was so steady that a couple of times when I adjust the throttle to maintain station keeping on the boat we were traveling with, it always got the attention of the other crew.
Another interesting bit of info out of the "It's a small world" file ... my crewmate in the picture below, Eric, and I have a special connection. We'd never met each other prior to this trip (we're both friends of the Mullens), but come to find out -- his mother's family and my mother's family both emigrated from the same island in Sweden, the island of Marstrand. His grandfathers served in the royal residence there and mine were boatbuilders/fishermen.
Pretty cool stuff!
