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Wayne.B Wayne.B is offline
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Default Buying a cruiser - help
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:28:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
About 13 gph *each* at 3400 RPM. At today's prices that works out to
well over $100 per hour.


The guy *should* be able to do the math if he's going to be driving a
speedboat around. And the old phrase "If you have to ask the price you
can't etc etc" also comes to mind.

Heh, our old Bertram sportfish with twin 7.4Ls used to burn 35 to 40
gph. I was usually too shell shocked to do the math, and that was 10
years ago with gas at $1.70.

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