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CurrentSea

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I am convinced. Ran almost 4 hours. Granted a lot was slow cruising and waiting for another boat to fuel up but my friend with 8.2s on a 37' formula burned over 100 gallons of gas where I burned less than half that and I have a bigger and heavier boat.

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Don't ya just hate it when the story turns out to be true?
 
If you have twin IPS that would indicate just under 6.9 gph total rate, yes?
But to be able to relate (in proper jealous manner), I'm curious what was the average cruise speed, distance covered, & average NMPG? How was noise and vibration compared to previous "gas hogs"?
 
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a lot was slow cruising and waiting for another boat to fuel up
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That will skew numbers greatly. What I, like you, Sandy, seem to want to know is what is fuel burn at cruising speed? What is that speed as well? I've found that 17.5 knots at 5100 RPM is best for my 30' power cat as the burn rate is under 8gph total.
 
Nope, twin 60hp Honda outboards. They'll run 6,000 RPM all day long and last thousands of hours. I "baby" them at 5,100 as that seems to be the sweet spot on this boat.:-)
 
I agree but I don't turn it on and off between cruise and slow.
I cruise on a good day at 29 mph and burn 24gph.
I have no vibration from ips and no prop feel since it's all computerized.
I do get vibration form the diesels.

So far this trip I have covered 122 miles and burned 117 gallons and ran for 8 hours.

The best part of the ips is the maneuverability.
At Champlins now. I tucked into the tightest spot.
Never could of done it without ips.

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I am standing on my bow.

The silverton wasn't there when I came in but the dock he is against was.

Plus it was blowing 20knots with gusts.
And the whole dock was watching on there bows too.
 
Hello Currentsea - Sorry we missed you out at Champlins it was quieter than normal last week but still was no where near empty when we were there. Joe jr being back is making a larger difference for the positive at the dock and the rest of the operations - the overall Island traffic with people and cars has actually increased from previous years. Interestingly both the boat basin and Payne's had plenty of room as well while we were there. Ended up home a bit earlier that expected (1-1/2 weeks) after some of the people and boats we were with had issues and one even ended up burning to the water line.

Your overall fuel burn is impressive for a boat of that size and weight but I am focusing on this line here as a potential concern if I have your engines guessed correctly- "I cruise on a good day at 29 mph and burn 24gph."
At 12 gph on those engines you are likely above 3,000 rpms and still above the typical prop curve exponent.
Do you have the matching rpms, boost, and pyro readings for that cruising speed as well?

Have a great time and hope this helps
 
Dave,
U guys were in some snot yesterday. U have a huge advantage over a gas boat. A gas boats fuel burn in snot will be exponential when compared to a diesel boat .

Rob
 
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