Chuck Gould wrote:
On Nov 9, 2:35?pm, HK wrote:
Yep.

The latest Sport Fishing magazine has a profile of a 42' Yellowfin
center console with FOUR 300-hp outboards. Engines burn 113 gph at WOT
(67 mph) but only (!) 41 gph at a 40 mph cruise.

Well, fools and their money are soon parted, but I believe anyone who
buys one of these deserves to be hit with some sort of horrific fuel
wastage tax, maybe a non-tax deductible charge of, say, $20,000 just for
owning such a resource waster.

Boats and fuel wastage like this just puts us all deeper in the hole to
the Saudi pigs.

1nmpg isn't all that unusual for a 42-footer traveling at any sort of
speed. Heck you're lucky to do any better than 4nmpg in a single
screw, 7-knot, 42-foot trawler. And just like any other boat, fuel
consumption at WOT is almost obscene.

One man's fuel "wastage" is somebody elses' "gawd-given right to
recreate" and pursue the American dream.

At one time, Harry, you were very proud to own a Hatteras. That boat
had to burn one heck of a lot of fuel at any sort of speed. What
happened to change your attitude over the last 7-10 years?




What happened? You haven't read a newspaper or seen a TV news show in
the last 15 years?