"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Mileage at 1500 rpm (6mph): approximately 6.2mpg
Mileage at 2500 rpm(9mph): approximately 3.5 mpg
Mileage at 3000 rpm(25mph): approximately 6.5mpg


TILT!

(occurs to me you kids don't fully appreciate that term).......

The performance curve seems out of whack.

The boat travels 6 mph at 1500 rpm.
Seems really slow, but let's use that.
It ought to do 6mph at a fast idle, one would think.

2500 rpm is only 9 mph? Still seems really, really, really slow, but
let's use
that.

If 2500 rpm is propelling this vessel at 9mph, it stretches the
imagination to
consider that adding 500 rpm will increase the speed by a factor of 2
1/2
times, or an additional 16mph.

Not saying it isn't so, just that it seems very unusual.

Sure the 2500 rpm isn't 19 mph, instead of
9?

Doesn't seem unusual to me at all. At around 2500 rpms is about where
mine drops off plane and essentiallly plows water.....much of the energy
produced by the engines is being used to push water out of the way, not move
the boat forward. At rpms around 1500, more energy is moving the boat
forward than pushing water,(less wake for example) and the same is true at
3000 with the hull on plane.