MurrayM
Guru
How does your gallons per hour fuel use compare between your boat and your vehicle?
I ask this because there seems to be a misguided tendency to fixate on a boats fuel use while ignoring how much our vehicles swill back.
We have been using our 30' Sundowner Tug since March this year, have fuelled up a couple times, but haven't crunched the numbers yet...it's not that important to us as we feel it's the price of admission to the show...but it's probably a wee bit above 1.5 gallons per hour.
We drive a Honda Element, which gets 37 km per gallon on the highway at 100 km per hour. That's a fuel burn rate of about 2.7 gallons per hour.
So, in comparison, our boat does pretty good, right?
How 'bout you?
I ask this because there seems to be a misguided tendency to fixate on a boats fuel use while ignoring how much our vehicles swill back.
We have been using our 30' Sundowner Tug since March this year, have fuelled up a couple times, but haven't crunched the numbers yet...it's not that important to us as we feel it's the price of admission to the show...but it's probably a wee bit above 1.5 gallons per hour.
We drive a Honda Element, which gets 37 km per gallon on the highway at 100 km per hour. That's a fuel burn rate of about 2.7 gallons per hour.
So, in comparison, our boat does pretty good, right?
How 'bout you?
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