Thanks for all the replies on this and I agree, there a lot of good info on this. Today I started with a full tank, 49 gallons. Cruised to ptown at 4200 rpms, bout 18 knots cause of some slop up to ptown which is 18 miles away. Cruised around trying different spots, trolled for a few hours drifted for a few more hours, ran up to peaked hill bar and trolled spreader bar at slack, ran 20 miles back to Barnstable at 4400 rpm at 23 knots. Trolled around the channel there for an hour and cruised back to the pier. Best I can figure is 50 miles, mostly running pretty good. Tank still above half. I put new spark plugs in yesterday and it was good I did cause they were bad. Now she starts a lot easier and prob helps my fuel a little.
My engine does go from slow to fast with not much I between, just thought that was a quirky 23 year old engine thing. Great info everyone. So I'm guessing I burned 23 gallons over at least 50 miles. I can live with that...
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