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PROPULSION ing all power. Today, we’re towing a much bigger net, get-

Founder’s Spirit ting great speed and nothing is heating up.” Beyond this,

At a time when the need to go ‘green’ is spurred primar- he insists, “We got great support from YANMAR. Now, ily by regulatory mandates and the push to achieve greater we’ve got so much power, we could’ve built a bigger net.” fuel economy is often driven by the ‘bottom line,’ YAN-

The last part is especially important. That’s because the MAR has already lived by those tenets for more than a cen-

Cape Reliant, at least in Alaskan waters, competes against tury. It was YANMAR founder Magokichi Yamaoka who an in