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Old 07-10-2016, 11:44 AM   #8
Cottontop
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Originally Posted by tadhana View Post
There is one other important consideration regarding the car analogy. Rolling along the road a car is only using about 20% of the available power. Most boats are using much more of the available power. the boat engine load is more like the load on a vehicle that is always climbing a hill. We change the oil as required by the engine MFR every 200 hours. 200 hours is about equivalent to 8-10,000 miles in a car, except this engine has been going "up hill" the entire way. boat engines are working harder than vehicle engines.
Good point.

Someone posted one time that they were in a beautiful anchorage, watching a perfect sunset, sipping an adult beverage, while somewhere on the boat, something was breaking. Funny, but distressingly true.
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