Thread for Marine Upholstery

[JuneC]

You took the words right out'a my mouth DB ... I thought 20 gallons per hour was a typo!

Goodness, no!  20 GPH is just sipping fuel.  It would be double that with gas engines (at the same speed).  We'll get probably 50% better fuel consumption at idle speeds.  Have a look at offshoreonly.com for what some of the gas boats burn - and most are much smaller than 38'.  It's not unusual to burn 50 to 60 gallons per hour in a performance boat.

June

[baileyuph]

June, am I really understanding this;  60 times (the price of diesel) per hours?

Now we know who is making all the money.  I also know what my next stock purchase will be in.  There are boats all over and around the coast.

Lets see, how does that compare to a performance car, a real mean one?  About $50 bucks per hour, and I am assuming they run off high octane gas. 

Well, it cost to do anything, for example professional sports seats, especially if it is a world series event.

Doyle

[JuneC]

Actually, it's 60 times the cost of a gallon of gasoline ++ per hour.  We'll never burn that much diesel.  Also, gas on the water is about $.50 a gallon more than in a gas station.  Boats don't like ethanol and you pay a premium to buy it in a marina.  Many small boaters buy gas in the auto gas station when their boat is on a trailer but it's hard to find ethanol-free fuel.  Diesel, on the other hand, is less expensive in a marina.  There's no road tax. 

June

[baileyuph]

Interesting, then it is logical that tank(s) sizes on those type of boats are well over a 100 gallons.  There is a big ocean out there to be cruised.

The weight of fuel alone takes considerable fuel to lug round.

Ready for this, some of our rigs, on a trailer, will fill their ten gallon tank up and go out for a day.  Of course these are rigs that go at a much lower speed, fishing boats primarily.  However, some of these rigs do have two tanks of that size, a spare in case.  I suppose at our bigger lakes, the statistics change to much like June is painting; because, I do hear about twin engine boats (some twin V8) that relatively, do drink a lot of fuel over a weekend of boating.  Those boats much be in the 25 foot range, more or less.  I don't see these. but boaters will bring me interior pieces and covers to work on.

BTW, time to buy some oil stock!

Doyle