New Engine

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Originally Posted by JBASS02

I've done close to a thousand miles on the engine already. The islands which we spearfish are 26 miles offshore so a typical day is around 80-100 miles. The engine is great! It gets ~4.5 mpg for the average day could be better but I typically run 48-5000 in the morning. At ~4000rpm(~23mph) it's getting 5mpg at ~5200 it get 4mpg(~35mph). Yesterday was our first day of big seas and the boat did great. We left the harbor at 5:20am to glassy seas and got to around the 20 mile mark before we decided to abort and dive coastal, we couldn't see over the waves which where beginning to break... I'm planning to redoing the deck and possibly building a half height cuddy this winter so I'll wait till then to dial in the prop and go stainless.

Good god and I though i racked up the miles. 1000 in two months, just wow.
checked my odometer 4225 in two years. It sounds like a perfect fit to you and the boat. Best of luck.
Ed & Sue