The
Art of Going Slow
Some Tios for Avoiding Trouble
Many boat
owners are talking about this. If you reduce
your gallons per hour from 36 to 10 you reduce
cost from $151 an hour to around $42, almost
400% savings. From what I read on the forums
a lot of people are going to try cruising
at displacement speed since a lot of diesel
boats will do around 8-9 knots at 10 gph.
Gas will probably be a bit more. Entire Article
The Future of Fule Prices
Boating runs on oil, so a crystal ball is needed.
This
writer has been following the oil market ever
since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo. My livelihood
depends on the price of oil and, if I ever came
to the conclusion that there was an acute world
shortage of oil I would have gotten out of this
business. Should fuel prices persist at $3.00+
that would pretty much doom powerboating. But so
far over the years my research has proved correct:
there isn't, and I didn't. Entire
Article
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Fuel
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