Re: T&T: New boat
An advertisement for a new boat, the Fountain 47, just fluttered across my
desk. It reads, in part "Blow past your friends at 88+ mph. Pull into the best
marinas first with all the luxury of a waterfront condo. Fountain Mercury's 47
Lightning is the perfect combination of performance and comfort."
The ad then goes on to rhapsodize about triple Mercury 525 EFI engines, full
standing headroom, a two burner stove and fridge, an AM/FM CD stereo system
with six speakers, etc.
Hidden in the small print is information about fuel consumption and range. At
its top speed the Fountain 47 burns an estimated 2.88 gallons per MINUTE or
258 gallons per hour. The range on a 314 gallon tank is 213 miles at a mere 60
mph. This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr at this admittedly high
cruising speed. At yesterday's gasoline price of $3.78/gal at the Tarrytown
Marina, the boat would burn $488 of fuel per hour. A trip up the Hudson from NYC to
Albany would cost $1220. That's assuming you really want to go to Albany.
It's enough to make an Arab dance with joy.
Larry Z
Here's a listing for the very boat-although this is a slightly used
version (39 hours may have bankrupted the owner). Good photos, though.
http://www.smithimports.com/602065.htm
Dave Percival
Fales 32 "Happenstance"
Mystic, CT
LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote:
An advertisement for a new boat, the Fountain 47, just fluttered across my
desk. It reads, in part "Blow past your friends at 88+ mph. Pull into the best
marinas first with all the luxury of a waterfront condo. Fountain Mercury's 47
Lightning is the perfect combination of performance and comfort."
The ad then goes on to rhapsodize about triple Mercury 525 EFI engines, full
standing headroom, a two burner stove and fridge, an AM/FM CD stereo system
with six speakers, etc.
Hidden in the small print is information about fuel consumption and range. At
its top speed the Fountain 47 burns an estimated 2.88 gallons per MINUTE or
258 gallons per hour. The range on a 314 gallon tank is 213 miles at a mere 60
mph. This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr at this admittedly high
cruising speed. At yesterday's gasoline price of $3.78/gal at the Tarrytown
Marina, the boat would burn $488 of fuel per hour. A trip up the Hudson from NYC to
Albany would cost $1220. That's assuming you really want to go to Albany.
It's enough to make an Arab dance with joy.
Larry Z
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Wow Larry. A "two burner stove"! Amazing, almost a trawler.
Bob Peterson
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Subject: Re: T&T: New boat
An advertisement for a new boat, the Fountain 47, just fluttered across my
desk. It reads, in part "Blow past your friends at 88+ mph. Pull into the
best marinas first with all the luxury of a waterfront condo. Fountain
Mercury's 47 Lightning is the perfect combination of performance and
comfort."
The ad then goes on to rhapsodize about triple Mercury 525 EFI engines, full
standing headroom, a two burner stove and fridge, an AM/FM CD stereo system
with six speakers, etc.
Hidden in the small print is information about fuel consumption and range.
At its top speed the Fountain 47 burns an estimated 2.88 gallons per MINUTE
or
258 gallons per hour. The range on a 314 gallon tank is 213 miles at a mere
60 mph. This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr at this admittedly
high cruising speed. At yesterday's gasoline price of $3.78/gal at the
Tarrytown Marina, the boat would burn $488 of fuel per hour. A trip up the
Hudson from NYC to Albany would cost $1220. That's assuming you really want
to go to Albany.
It's enough to make an Arab dance with joy.
Larry Z
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Hidden in the small print is information about fuel consumption and range.
At its top speed the Fountain 47 burns an estimated 2.88 gallons per MINUTE
or
258 gallons per hour. The range on a 314 gallon tank is 213 miles at a mere
60 mph. This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr at this admittedly
high cruising speed.
There must be some might sleepy mathematicians driving around this
afternoon. 2.88 gpm works out to be about 175 gals per hour, not 258.
At 175 gals per hour, the range on 314 gallons is only about 1 3/4
hours. If that is at 60 mph, then the range is about 100 miles. If it's
at 90 mph, it's about 160 miles.
These range figures work out to about 3.1 gals per mile, which brings us
back to the 2.88 gpm, which 60 mph divides back into 60 minutes, exactly.
Somehow all this reminds me a a 50' Ferreti that I ran one time. It had
twin 800 hp Cats and would do 30 knots. It carried about 400 gals and
had about 150 miles of range at 20 knots.
The Fountain 47 must made out of rice paper to be light enough to do
over 80 mph, or even 60 knots.
Mike
Capt. Mike Maurice
Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)
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From: Bob Peterson
Wow Larry. A "two burner stove"! Amazing, almost a trawler.
REPLY
It can't be a trawler it doesn't have a walk in engineroom. <VBG>
Arild
Whether it's 1.44 or 3.1 gals/mile that's
.69 or .32 mpg, but a mainship 40 at 13 knots is only 1.1 mpg (2.5 mpg at 6.7 knots).
(http://www.mainship.com/fueleconomy/yanmar2.html)
It seems that boat are just stuck in this 1-2 mpg rut.
I'd still like a 10mpg boat at 10 knots ;-)
Mike Maurice mikem@yachtsdelivered.com wrote: > Hidden in the small print is information about fuel consumption and range.
At its top speed the Fountain 47 burns an estimated 2.88 gallons per MINUTE
or
258 gallons per hour. The range on a 314 gallon tank is 213 miles at a mere
60 mph. This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr at this admittedly
high cruising speed.
There must be some might sleepy mathematicians driving around this
afternoon. 2.88 gpm works out to be about 175 gals per hour, not 258.
At 175 gals per hour, the range on 314 gallons is only about 1 3/4
hours. If that is at 60 mph, then the range is about 100 miles. If it's
at 90 mph, it's about 160 miles.
These range figures work out to about 3.1 gals per mile, which brings us
back to the 2.88 gpm, which 60 mph divides back into 60 minutes, exactly.
Somehow all this reminds me a a 50' Ferreti that I ran one time. It had
twin 800 hp Cats and would do 30 knots. It carried about 400 gals and
had about 150 miles of range at 20 knots.
The Fountain 47 must made out of rice paper to be light enough to do
over 80 mph, or even 60 knots.
Mike
Capt. Mike Maurice
Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)
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From: Mark
It seems that boat are just stuck in this 1-2 mpg rut.
I'd still like a 10mpg boat at 10 knots ;-)
REPLY
Then you need to examine hull forms other than full displacement mono hulls.
Begin with power cats and workfrom there.
Laws of physics cannot be negated but sometimes there are loop holes. <G>
Arild
(SNIP) This works out to 1.44 gal/mile or 129 gal/hr..
Larry, your math is interesting, but you missed the hidden carrying cost.
Those "port and starboard pleasure units" make the fuel costs statistically
insignificant.
Regards....
Phil Rosch
Old Harbor Consulting
M/V "Curmudgeon" MT44 TC
Currently lying Bond Creek, NC