Dear smitty
Our Crestliner is 14'8" long. It weighs some 450 +/- lbs. Has perfectly set perm adjust trim tabs and well trimmed o/b stance with best prop for high speed on its perfect running, 2 cycle, 50 hp. Johnson. At WOT with just one person aboard [i.e. me] there is only a couple feet of its rear most bottom touching the water. So little bottom surface on the water that to turn at WOT this lightweight little boat skids sideways over the water similar to a very flat skipping stone. To turn in reasonable tolerance of circumference I must considerably reduce speed so the bottom of boat regains ample wet surface contact to water so the boat actually turns without skipping so freely to the side that it notably begins to dangerously travel sideways while turning.
The 39.6 GPS calced speed at WOT is what Jen got while I cruised beside her and Mike's SeaRay. That is not fiction; you can take it to the bank!
The 21 +/- mpg at approx. 25 knots that Linda and I get while gently cruising is simply arrived at by dividing gallons used to miles traveled. Same way as for any vehicle. Could I be off a bit on this figure... sure I could. But not very far off... believe me.
So tell me smitty... What's in this for you to time and again question my accountable stats?
You mention [your quote]: "The numbers you are working with are out of line by 200% or more from any other test out there."
That means you feel that top speed for our little, lightweight, high powered o/b boat is 13.2 mph? [39.6 :- 3 = 13.2] And that at 21 mph we get 7 mpg [21 mpg :- 3 = 7] :lol:
smitty, smitty, smitty... Get logical before you first try to disprove something that is hands down reality - and - against which you then post alternate numbers such as you did saying that it is a 200% factor of incorrectness that you state that my numbers represent.
Let's take a factor of 10% inaccuracy in my numbers, to the down side of course. You come on out here and I'll bet you $1K cash that our Crestliner
does what I [and Linda and Mike and Jen] say it does.
Travel expenses are on you!