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On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:45:21 -0500, wrote:On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:06:52 -0800 (PST), True wrote:On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 02:44:44 UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:23:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Wayne B wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:51:35 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 2/11/21 4:36 PM, Wayne B wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:21:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: ...the 19-footer I am considering... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN42mq5eSUc === There will be people rushing out to buy them. There appears to be a major arms race going on with the big multi engine go fast crowd. I like the fact that they are a lot quieter than the go fast boats of 20 years ago. https://youtu.be/qv-GPdnJ-1E I'm sure you are right that they'll sell, even at $75,000 a pop. I'll bet the fuel burn is...interesting. === The people who buy them don't worry about fuel burn. Probably better the the QE II. That ship gets 6 inches per gallon I read. These motors seem to drink about 50 GPH WOT (6300-6400) and more like 20 at a 4000-4500 cruise. https://boattest.com/article/new-mer...00-hp-outboard The boats they talk about usually have 600-800 gallon tanks so that gives them a few hundred mile range and a $2000+ fill up. How bad do you want to get there?Foolishness!The wind is still free...at least for the time being.Sure if you are relatively poor or really really rich but if you canafford it and you are getting out of sight of land you want an engineon that sail boat.===Interestingly enough an engine on a sailboat is most useful when youare approaching land or entering a harbor. Offshore they mostly getused as expensive battery chargers. A lot of cruisers are going solarhowever to get away from that.

Picture a dummy who got himself wing on wing downwind with close 8
ft following seas. The only thing the dummy WASN'T AFRAID TO DO
was maintain course and run the engine at full throttle. Try
doing that for 11 hours. The dummy was prepared to beach the boat
if conditions didnt change.
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