Fuel mileage on your Toon

[JGator]

I'm guesstimating a weight of 2350lbs with 4 large adults. This includes fuel, provisions, motor (Yamaha 40-4 Stroke) and people. I'm getting somewhere around 6 to 7 miles per gallon running close to WOT. Of course with 2 adults mileage is better...

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I am not any where close to that, I get 4.5 miles to a gal with a 9.9 motor

 

[coastalrichard]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Ouch...I plan on 2mpg

 

[QC]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I was gonna call Bolshoi, but I always check data first. Dayum . . . 'toon looking pretty dern economical: http://www.boattest.com/boats/boat_video.aspx?ID=1085#Test-Result

 

[Boss Hawg]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I get about a 12pk per 6gal tank :redface:

 

[steelespike]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Yamaha test 16ft 1900 lbs 9" prop, 8.20 mpg @ 4000,5600 @ 19.3mph 5.08 mpg.
16ft 2030 lbs 9" prop, 5500 @ 18.7 mph 5.05 mpg.
4000 @ 11.9 mph 7 gph.
Typical rule of thumb a 40 will use about 4 gallons an hour at wide open throttle
Whether pushing a house boat or a runabout.

 

[JGator]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

My prop is a 11 5/8 x 11 with the above load @ 5100 and with only 2 on board @ 5400. The way I measured the mileage was to do a Google Map distance check of the routes I traveled. I've done this for a number of trips. I can get 35 miles out of 5 gals... With only two of us at WOT its still around 7 to 8 mpg, however I'll get a few more MPH, from 14-15~ to 18~.

 

[JGator]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I was gonna call Bolshoi, but I always check data first. Dayum . . . 'toon looking pretty dern economical: http://www.boattest.com/boats/boat_video.aspx?ID=1085#Test-Result

Asked me to log in, I dont have one so can I use yours?

 

[JGator]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I get about a 12pk per 6gal tank :redface:

Hummm. Not sure I get close to that!

 

[JGator]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Yamaha test 16ft 1900 lbs 9" prop, 8.20 mpg @ 4000,5600 @ 19.3mph 5.08 mpg.
16ft 2030 lbs 9" prop, 5500 @ 18.7 mph 5.05 mpg.
4000 @ 11.9 mph 7 gph.
Typical rule of thumb a 40 will use about 4 gallons an hour at wide open throttle
Whether pushing a house boat or a runabout.

This is an 18' Harris. We did 2~ hours of run time between WOT and 4000rpm and used 5~ gals of fuel with the load I guesstimated. I usually empty the tank(s) and measure the extra if I'm not going out for a week or so. After getting close to empty on one trip with a single tank I purchased a second 6 gal tank... :facepalm:

 

[MinUph]

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I burn about a gallon an hour. Have no idea MPG. Thats WOT. 40 hp Honda on an 18 foot toon. 2 adults and snacks.

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Well when I did my test run to find out I added one gallon to a empty tank and used the trip log on my GPS. 29 minutes and 4.5 miles later it ran out.

 

[MinUph]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Pretty good test

 

[steelespike]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

I burn about a gallon an hour. Have no idea MPG. Thats WOT. 40 hp Honda on an 18 foot toon. 2 adults and snacks.

I think your kidding us. A 50 hp outboard will use "about" 5 gallons per hour at wot.Whether pushing a house boat or a race boat.
Two Honda efi tests a 16ft pontoon 19 mph at 5.2 gph, 1gph @ 3.3 mph, 21 ft pontoon 18 mph at 5.4 gph.,1gph @ 4.2.mph

 

[JGator]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Pretty good test

That "we're out of gas honey so we need to make the best of it..." line never did work for me!

 

[Silver Eagle]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Some of you guy's must be dragging an anchor while running. My 90 hp merc two stroke does way better then that and it's pushig a 24 ft Starcraft. I can go out on a day's run go twenty miles one way ,putt around with the rafts on the back, come back later in the day . and when I add fuel It may take 6 gallons. Now, I'm in tidal waters, so the tide helps some. Some times I'm running 4400 rpm some times I at 2500. depending on the winds and tides. It gets pretty rough on the Chesapecke bay.

 

[bigdee]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

20 foot Godfrey with 85hp 2 stroke Yamaha.....about 12 to 15 miles on a 6 gallon tank. I live at the end of a river/lake that is 14 miles long and I have to switch tanks to make it home.

 

[Boss Hawg]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

Some of you guy's must be dragging an anchor while running. My 90 hp merc two stroke does way better then that and it's pushig a 24 ft Starcraft. I can go out on a day's run go twenty miles one way ,putt around with the rafts on the back, come back later in the day . and when I add fuel It may take 6 gallons. Now, I'm in tidal waters, so the tide helps some. Some times I'm running 4400 rpm some times I at 2500. depending on the winds and tides. It gets pretty rough on the Chesapecke bay.

Over 40 miles on 6gals?
My truck barely does that

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

the only way to know is to put 1 gallon in a tank and run till it stops. And use a GPS in trip log mode.

 

[Old Screwball]

Re: Fuel mileage on your Toon

My 18' Party Barge with a 75hp 4 stroke Merc holds 37 gallons of gas. I drive it until I hit about 1/4 tank, then fill it up again. I'm having way too much fun to calculate my gallons per hour. Same riding the Harleys, have no idea what the fuel mileage is. My F150 gets 14.5mpg, the little read-out on the dash says so, otherwise I wouldn't know that one either. If I was driving a Toyota Carolla I'd figure it out, have to have some reason for driving that piece of crap.