4 stroke economy

[yockman]

Hiya guys,
I put a yammie f115 on last Christmas and just can't believe how little fuel it uses. Last Saturday, planed most of the way out to the shelf, trolled for 4 hours, planed back in from about 6nm out - 29 litres! ;D ;D ;D
Next morning, however, wnt to start it, no go, serious flooding problem. Reliably informed by the guru that it's a stuck needle in the vapour separator tank :P :-/

Win a few, lose a few.

Interested to hear how this compares to other four strokes.
Cheers,
Yockman

[Needmorerum]

What size and make of boat Yockman?

Corry

[yockman]

Carribbean, 5.4m

[QldKev]

How many k's/nm was the total trip. I'm in the market for updating my boat, and am really intrested.

[yockman]

It's about 11nm to the shelf, so 11 back and we trolled around out that way for about 2.5 - 3 hrs @ 6.5 knots, so...... roughly 40nm
I'd be dubious reading these figures from somewhere else, but this time, I filled the boat on the way to the ramp and refilled it on the way home.

A coupla weeks ago, we did a similar trip, then mucked around all week setting the pot, catching salmon etc, using it every day and it 69 litres when I refilled.

Now, if I can only get it to start next w'end, might have a chance at some of the huge yft lurking down here at the moment :o :o :o

[Wild_Side]

When I first got my 4st I couldn't get over the feul eccon.
Im getting 2.4 m/lt :o
Oh well thems the breaks ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[megafish71]

G'day Yockman
I had a 115hp Fuel injected 4 stroke yamy on a 5.6mtr quintrex. The fuel ecconomy was brilliant, Average about 3ks to the litre. When I was working out fuel required for a big trip, I'd plan on 2.5ks to the litre just incase I had to travel up or downstream against a 7mtr Territory tide. Had great run out of this engine clocking up about 1600hrs on it in two years, it never let us down or caused us any problems. Now I have a 200hp yamy 4 banger and am just as happy with it.

Cheers Ron