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On Friday, April 6, 2012 5:33:16 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:54:54 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, April 6, 2012 3:38:27 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:29:54 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I put gas in the Suburban, and picked up the boat at lunch. I swear it used an 1/8th of a tanks in a 12 mile round-trip! At least I don't have to feed that thing every day.

On the positive side, I'm really happy with the new cover. It looks better than factory, and with some care should last more than twice as long.. The last cover I had made was pretty crappy looking, but this guy I found now does first class work, and is fast, too. He's definitely a keeper for cover and upholstery work.

I just filled my cans again and the tally for 69 hours of running on
my new Yamaha 70 is 80 gallons of gas.
1.2 gallons an hour. I can live with that.

Hey, my Yamaha 250 is getting great mileage on the trailer! On the water, not so much, but it probably uses half the gas that the previous boat with a carb'd Johnson 150 2-stroke did.

That reminds me, I'll have to fill it up before I splash it tomorrow evening or Sunday. No need to pay the gas-on-the-water penalty needlessly.

I have figured out that my fuel consumption almost doubles between
4500 and 6200 (WOT) with a pretty modest increase in speed.
You can almost see the gauge move.
4500 is fine with me. That is really about as fast as I have ever run
any of my motors on a regular basis. I have been getting 3000 hours
out of them between repowers and they were running when I sold them.

I tend to run about 3500 - 4000 max on cruise with a destination in mind. Only time I run it harder is pulling a tuber or skier, or when running back in to beat a storm. Most times it's nice just putting around at 2000 or so relaxing and just talking with friends. Water time is down-time for us. During the summer, think snacks or light dinner and sundown on the water.

Too bad this NG can't be a place that mirrors the pleasure that the boating time is.