Advice for buying a Fountain.

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Originally Posted by gslpro

you think about it, and that isn't bad at all. That is about 1 mile per gallon. i get just above 1.5 miles per gallon at best cruise around 29-36 mph on my express cruiser. Lightweight vs. moving condo. Friction on these hulls moving through water is our enemy, more than horses under the hood. Sort of like an aerodynamic Corvette getting low 30's on the highway, vs. a mid 20's mpg minivan.

Pat O'Connor owned the Sonic SE High Deck pictured. He had a condo at Rowes Warf, W/ boat slip, and he could leave Boston on a Friday afternoon and be on Cape Cod to entertain Customers in about 15 minutes. He had too much money to be concerned about Gasoline.
I delivered a boat called 'Distant Thunder', it was a 46' Cougar W/ 9 and 1/2 foot beam with the engine builder to the owner from Long Island, across Long Island Sound to Stratford Connecticut in 12 minutes. Distant thunder would do 105 MPH in a 4' chop. It had 3 900 hp. Ferrara engines that used 45 gallons an hour at cruising speed ( each ), around 80 MPH. The Builder that owned Distant Thunder paid $500,000.00 for the boat and the engines, transmissions and out drives ( MerCruiser # 4 SpeedMasters ) were installed at Ferrara's on Long Island. The owner also put a larger fuel tank in it. The stock fuel tank held 400 Gallons...