Excerpt from On Marine Motors and Motor Launches a Handy Book for Yachtsmen
When selecting a gasoline engine for driving a boat there are a number of considerations to be dealt with, but all of them, great and small, subservient to the primary consideration of reliability of oper tion at all times and under the most trying conditions. It is a very peculiar thing about the gasoline engine that it is expected to be in good working order at all times and that it must never break down. If it does, the owner or operator, as the case may be, will decry the gasoline em gine, its builders and all who have anything to do with it, in language that is probably not Of the mildest kind. If a steam engine breaks down, there may be some strong words used with reference to the maker, but as a rule nothing is said against the steam engine as a prime mover, for the simple reason that we are accustomed to its vagaries and take them as a matter of course.
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