Tim wrote:
On Jun 18, 7:34 pm, John H. wrote:

Glad to hear all went so well, Tim. You got one hell of a deal. You must
have some great karma!-

"Karma"?


Well? I suppose "Karma" wil be determined by how many gallons this
beast will guzzle over a summer.... ?:

whe I got the boat, the fuel tank was reading at 1/2. you could jossle
the boat a bit and the fuel guage would twitch, so I knew it there was
"something" in there. first day out, I dropped in $50.00 (15 gal)
*gulp!* That raised the tank to 3/4. OK, I feel better now. after
cruising and playing for a bit, retired for the day. Sat, I dropped
anopther $50.00 in it *gulp!* and that raised it to "full" so....


I have now idea how much gas this boat holds, but I'd say it has close
to a 50 gal tank.

Eh, what the heck. If I was worried about economy, I wouldn't have a
boat anyhow.

It's all equated in the "fun factor", John.



One of my boats has a 170-gallon gasoline tank. It's a 25-footer,
nominally (measures about 32' from the ass end of the engine bracket to
the front of the bow pulpit). At a decent cruise speed, the engine burns
about nine gallons an hour. That's about $30-$32 an hour. Bad, but it
could be worse, and probably will be at some point. I can keep track of
the fuel burn because I have a flow gauge that does that for me.

I go out fishing with three buddies. We split the costs for fuel and
bait. Usually comes out to $25 a guy for a full day of fishing. That
makes the cost reasonable, in my mind.

Unless we're going a long distance by boat, I never keep more than 50-70
gallons in the tank. Carrying around an extra 100 gallons or so of
gasoline wastes time, money and energy.