On Apr 6, 8:54*pm, wrote:
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.

Oh it can, and at one time actually did. but then again that was 10
years ago.or so.