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Subject: albin 28 flush deck
From: "K. Smith" LaBomba182 wrote: Subject: albin 28 flush deck From: "NOYB" "fishless" wrote in message news:c19eeecd30ea8f5cf638edb87c834566@localhost .talkaboutboats.com... I just purchased a 28 te new. Anyone have fuel consumption with the 315 yanmar? I had a patient tell me that his Albin 28 cruised at 18 knots with a burn rate of 13 gph. I found those numbers hard to believe, but amazing if true. Let us know. A new 28 True World Marine (planning hull) with a 315 Yanmar on a jack shaft does 30 mph cruise while burning approx. 6-7 gph. And 40 mph top end burning 10 - 11 gph Capt. Bill Come on Capt. you????, not Chucky of course but ...... :-) Approx 6-7 gph??? is this one of those Chucky help make a sale "approx" gals?? or a standard US gal??? Best you get some references where Yanmar themselves have publicly made claims anything like that, they haven't I can assure you they'd get well sued, probably by Cat or Cummins etc:-). The best you'll find are vague "testimonials" about this & that, never any proper numbers. I just looked at the Powerboat Reports Sept. 2004 issue where they tested one and they saw 22 knot cruise at 7 gph. And a max speed of just a tick over 30 knots and max gph of 12. The boating magazines print this type of nonsense all the time, everyone knows they're inexperienced simpletons, but it's well out of order for the manufacturers to even allow such false marketing BS to remain uncorrected. Yeah, yeah and they're all published on a grass knoll. These engines are a converted Toyota Landcruiser diesel (hey great news for Landcruiser drivers!!! you too need never buy fuel again:-)) & if run continuously above about 250HP for more than a very short time will drop their fuel consumption to nil:-) so you can forget all about the mystical "top end burning" in gph terms for even 1 straight hour:-). However even if 11gph were true it raises a much more difficult question, fore it would mean these engines are only making about 180-190 HP flat out!!!; sad really when they're marketed as 315 hp diesels. If that engine really is using say 7 USgal/hr it's probably not making much more than 120HP so you now have a diesel powered 28 ft boat, what 4-5 ton???, 6800 lb dry. "cruising" at 30 mph on 120HP??? & the same boat doing 40 mph on 190HP???? Curiouser & curiouser said Alice. Be skeptical of the magazines they're the source of much false information & those that then repeat it unquestioningly are only demonstrating their own lack of experience. Needless to say we even have one here who continues to write it even though we've offered to run the numbers, so it follows it's just marketing BS from BS'ers. Instead of running the numbers, get one and hook up a flow meter and get back to us. Oops almost forgot, have a merry christmas or hanukkah if that suits you:-) I celabrate Festivus, thanks. And by the way, were you perhaps molested as a young girl by a boat broker/ OEM sales rep. selling magazine subscriptions by any chance? Capt. Bill |
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