The engine on my boat is the trusty, but noisy Perkins 4.326 Diesel. There is also a three-cylinder Diesel powered generator and seven electric motors, all below the saloon floor. When these are all running it can be quite noisy in the saloon and this article describes how the noise was reduced considerably, by using a simple method of insulating the floorboards
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