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back to boating...
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. Oh, and another thing about the new cover... the guy sewed "collars" around the openings where the supports/poles are for the bimini top. His reasoning is that water doesn't run down the top and into the holes, but instead goes around the collars and down the side. Looks great, makes sense. This guy is good. |
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