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2 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

Depends what you are after, but boats with an artificially increased back cabin that then sets the engine room too far forward can look pretty unconvincing.

It maybe one thing to add (say) an extra foot to get a 4' wide cross bed rather than a 3' wide cross bed, but keeping the standard features, but having over 6' of linear bed would make everything at least 3 feet longer than is normal.  This would look pretty strange on the outside, plus if you use a conventional propshaft you will have  up to 12 feet of your total cabin space with very restricted headroom.

There's nothing nasty about an air cooled Lister if it has had a proper restoration, and is well maintained.  Any old engine is not nice to be behind if it has not.

What is it you seek to be separated from - noise or smoke?  In either case 3 feet extra will likely make bugger all difference, I would say.

I'd agree that a more central engine room looks strange on a full length motor with a cabin, but on a tug style boat it can make it more balanced. Many working tugs wouldn't have had a 9' cabin as they were shortened and converted anyway, and engines moved forward into bigger rooms- probably to accommodate multi cylinder units. Our 60' tug replica has a 10' back cabin with a nice wide crossbed, then a walk through bathroom with "sunken" bath on one side. This works well as the back cabin is our bedroom so it makes it kind of "en-suite"!  Closing the bathroom doors also makes the back cabin a surprisingly quiet place when cruising. Of course that's with a Gardner, probably wouldn't be with a HA2..

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