Gordon B
Veteran Member
Hi to all,
I've watched this forum for along time but this is my first post.
I'm sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere.
My wife and I are in the "looking" process for a liveaboard trawler to cruise the Florida coast (within a year). We are curious about GPH for twin ford lehman 60 elpt 4s 225 on a 37-38 foot trawler from the 1980's era. We would really like to go with a lot smaller engines but for some reason many of the smaller trawlers that we like have high horsepower engines.
So, I guess the question is if you go slow (7 or 8 knots) what can the expected GPH be.
We don't want to go fast, but can going slow damage the engines?
Thanks for all the help.
Gordon
I've watched this forum for along time but this is my first post.
I'm sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere.
My wife and I are in the "looking" process for a liveaboard trawler to cruise the Florida coast (within a year). We are curious about GPH for twin ford lehman 60 elpt 4s 225 on a 37-38 foot trawler from the 1980's era. We would really like to go with a lot smaller engines but for some reason many of the smaller trawlers that we like have high horsepower engines.
So, I guess the question is if you go slow (7 or 8 knots) what can the expected GPH be.
We don't want to go fast, but can going slow damage the engines?
Thanks for all the help.
Gordon