Before you decide to junk that unrepairable engine block watch this...

So on a garage level repair, you just drill the crack and screw these pins in, tighten and grind flush? Do the pins need to overlap? That large scale ship repair is something else! USA!

I watched a huge 80" valve seat being ground with a grinder on a boring bar. He just set it up and started rotating the rigid jigged grinder around the valve seat. Simple yet effective
Easy, drill the ends first to stop the crack then over lap them. They have a kind of like upward thread that locks the metal together. Pretty awesome, aw heads done between the valves then machined for the valve Different plugs for different applications. Look at their web site. Not cheap but you can save stuff I threw away in the past.