On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:02:58 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

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.

When we got our turbocraft, a sixteen foot jet drive with a 109 HP
flathead six, gas was as little as 25 cents in town, 50 cents at the
gas dock. Five GPH? It's been fifty years hard to be sure. 18 gal tank
lasted three hours or so. Of course a pack of cigs or a paperback book
or a magazine were a quarter.

Casady