On Sep 1, 5:24 pm, wrote:
On Sep 1, 9:33 am, HK wrote:





wrote:
On Sep 1, 9:11 am, HK wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:50:18 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:04:53 -0400, HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Yamaha is claiming .9 mpg cruise (4500 rpm) on it's V-8 350 WOT.
Hmmmm....52 GPH?
EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!
You're doing something wrong:
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/outboard...px?ls=outboard
I came up with this (52 GPH)
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/assets/p...ns/bulletin_4s...
Yeah, for three of them.
1.29 MPG out of 1000 cu in at 33 MPH is pretty good. Not my kinda
boat, but still an interesting string of numbers....
I suppose, though burning $75 in gasoline an hour to go fishing seems
kind of stupid, no matter how much money you have in your jeans.
Actually, if you have a boat like that, you're going to burn a lot more.
No one puts 1000 hp on a fast boat to go slow. They're going to be
running at 60 gallons an hour, I'd bet. $200 an hour in gas, and for
what? To further enrich our good buddies in the Middle East?

I banged around on the boat for about five hours Wednesday, covered
quite a distance at reasonable speeds, cruised in and out of a couple of
harbors, trolled for Spanish macks and blues for a few minutes, and
burned about $20 worth of gas.

I'm not playing holier than thou here, but to buy and run a boat that
you'll be burning 60 gallons an hour of fuel on seems...absurd.- Hide quoted text -

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Me and T did a lot of traveling the other day. 95 % of the time he was
cruising at 4000. Only once did I see him throttle up from there, and
only for one quick leg. Just my observation. But then again I was
under attack by trained lobsters so I was somewhat distracted.

Trained lobsters? How well are they trained? Do they jump into the
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I am quite sure Tom has a team of black ops lobsters he uses to screw
with newbies. Apparently these lobsters have hanaeus weapons called
"lobster traps" which they use to snag and steal land-dwellers bait
and tackle. Sneaky *******s they are, but I know about em' now, next
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Got me a 38 cal. butter dispenser and a lemon. It ain't gonna be
pretty..

have heard it's 650lbs!


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Yamaha is claiming .9 mpg cruise (4500 rpm) on it's V-8 350 WOT.

Hmmmm....52 GPH?

EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!

Harry,
I have to agree with you, small is best. How much gas do you think you burn
in the average summer?


"HK" wrote in message
...
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:50:18 -0400, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:04:53 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Yamaha is claiming .9 mpg cruise (4500 rpm) on it's V-8 350 WOT.

Hmmmm....52 GPH?

EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!
You're doing something wrong:

http://www.yamaha-motor.com/outboard...px?ls=outboard

I came up with this (52 GPH)

http://www.yamaha-motor.com/assets/p...n-tri-f350.pdf



Yeah, for three of them.

1.29 MPG out of 1000 cu in at 33 MPH is pretty good. Not my kinda
boat, but still an interesting string of numbers....



I suppose, though burning $75 in gasoline an hour to go fishing seems kind
of stupid, no matter how much money you have in your jeans. Actually, if
you have a boat like that, you're going to burn a lot more. No one puts
1000 hp on a fast boat to go slow. They're going to be running at 60
gallons an hour, I'd bet. $200 an hour in gas, and for what? To further
enrich our good buddies in the Middle East?

I banged around on the boat for about five hours Wednesday, covered quite
a distance at reasonable speeds, cruised in and out of a couple of
harbors, trolled for Spanish macks and blues for a few minutes, and burned
about $20 worth of gas.

I'm not playing holier than thou here, but to buy and run a boat that
you'll be burning 60 gallons an hour of fuel on seems...absurd.

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:04:08 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Heavy, but still lighter than 350 HP worth of twins.... or as twins,
still lighter than a triple.

Considerably lighter than an I/O or straight inboard also. At 800+
though, that is not exactly your father's outboard.