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Fuel economy of older jet boats
"Calif Bill" wrote in
m: I did not buy an aluminum jetboat for the economy. I bought it to run shallow and tree filled rivers. Better economy than a jetski. My 351W engine got me about 2 mpg, 3400# 21' boat. The newer 5.7L mpi gets better, but have not really checked on the mpg yet. What's really unfortunate is the unscrupulous American dealers for the Mercury Sport Jet-powered boats and PWC dealers who purposely DON'T tell new owners their jets will be destroyed if they suck up a rock the diameter of a quarter and get it wedge between the whirling impeller and the stator 1/8" behind it in the flow. Many PWC and jetboats are destroyed here because owners don't know the difference between Australian-style flats boats powered by filtered jets with no stator and what's being sold as jetboats in the USA....never made to handle a rock. |
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