Short video clip of my F-26 cruising on glassy water

chucka · Post by **chucka** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:59 am

Playing with my new camera... I took this short video of the wake while cruising Friday evening on glassy water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grs3KUze5H4

foofer b · Post by **foofer b** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:58 pm

At that speed, how many gallons an hour do you burn?

chucka · Post by **chucka** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:19 pm

That was about 2700 RPM, and 12 knots. I didn't have the GPS on, so I don't know the exact speed. My boat speed is pretty sensitive to the number of people and the amount of fuel on board. You can tell it was planed out because the wake is pretty flat so I was probably running about 12 knots. The boat squats more throwing a bigger wake at 10 knots. It starts to flatten out at 11. This video is pretty typical of 12. I don't have a fuel meter, so I'm not too precise about fuel burn rate at a particular speed. I averaged under 5 GPH for all of last season. This speed is pretty typical of how I run while cruising. I have the Carter AFB carburetor on a Chrysler LM 318 (single screw). The secondaries kick in at 3200 RPM which pushes up the fuel consumption. I rarely run it that fast.

P.S. Those fishing rods were not for nothing Friday night. Here is my catch!

Caught trolling the tube.
Chuck

LSP · Post by **LSP** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:31 pm

Nice catch Chuck ...

LSP · Post by **LSP** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:10 pm

chucka wrote:Playing with my new camera... I took this short video of the wake while cruising Friday evening on glassy water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grs3KUze5H4

Hey Chuck .... short video??? ....that was a teeze

chucka · Post by **chucka** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:12 pm

While I was on Youtube I found this nice F-36 underway video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFVAh6dQu0

Is this one of the members here? It's less of a tease.
Chuck

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:53 pm

Nice video - and smooth wake ...

guglielmo6160 · Post by **guglielmo6160** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:26 pm

anybody have one of those videos of an F31

randyp · Post by **randyp** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:43 am

Hey Bill, did you notice the steam coming out of the exhaust? Nice video and nice to see normal steam for all you worry-warts out there.

guglielmo6160 · Post by **guglielmo6160** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:38 am

rossjo, yes I did,,lol, I think Im ok,,,,lol

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:12 am

Did what?

ready123 · Post by **ready123** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:26 am

rossjo wrote:Did what?

I think he meant that comment for Randyp who was trying to allay Bill's earlier concern of exhaust steam.

willietrojan · Post by **willietrojan** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:43 pm

here is a video of tubing from a F32, listen to those 351's purr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILuw-4XDoWU

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:21 pm

Nice video Willie - wish I was a kid!

guglielmo6160 · Post by **guglielmo6160** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:37 pm

I meant Randy, sorry

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