1 Engine or 2

[waybomb]

Originally posted by Taz
Do you pull the fuel tanker behind?

It holds 330 gallons.
Gas here now is about $3.20 gallon at a marina.
It's about $2.37 for a gallon of 93 octane premium at a land gas station.

I have no idea how many liters that is or how many British Pounds.

[MrRob]

$2.37 is £1.27 which is about 28p ish a ltr.
A gallon here is about £3.82 which is $7.09! Thats at a gas station not a marina. F***ing Mr Brown. He owes Jono a few Xmas cards!

[Jon Holmes]

Definately 2 engines.

The sooner the oil is used up the sooner the English can get back to ruling the world.

OMO - (Only my opinion).

[Jon Holmes]

Originally posted by Matt
The formula runs 63mph, tracks as straight as a die and chomps up all the typical solent chop, but can still return 3mpg taking it easy. And the sound is awesom. I like twins...next boat hopefully will have twins too.

What are you after next then Matt?

I think im going to go for another sea caravan, looking at the Formula 330SS for channel trips and weekends away. They list a twin deisel option but not many have been sold in the US so they are scarce on the used market.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by MrRob
$2.37 is £1.27 which is about 28p ish a ltr.
A gallon here is about £3.82 which is $7.09! Thats at a gas station not a marina. F***ing Mr Brown. He owes Jono a few Xmas cards!

The dearest (greediest) of the south coast marinas, are charging circa £1.25/litre. That, for Mr Waybomb, is about $9.25/US gallon (smaller than ours by about 0.6 litres) so one imperial gallon is about $10.80

So, to fill your Cougar here in a marina, would cost $3052

Which is why I've historically run a diesel boat, as diesel, until just a couple of years ago, was well under $2.00/US gallon, and a circa 300hp diesel motor, will not exceed a consumption of more than 18US gallons/hour (flat out) so historically, it really was 'no contest'.

[Toffen]

Originally posted by Matt
What's the closest you can (reasonably) run a pair of twins with alien cowls?

Hi!

Approx. 23 inches centreline centreline.

Cheeers, Toffen G

[JamesM]

I've seen offset alien cowls on an F1 ski boat so that the motors could be mounted closer.

[Burty]

plus one?? dunno how they did that cus surely the alternator would have been in the way on the left hand motor????

[JamesM]

The one I was refering too was the black Cyclone twin called Cyclone.

[Burty]

righto well they is xr2's so no alternator but i'm sure plus one did the same and they were defo 280's

[Captain Chaos]

the original black cyclone (Martins) had 300 drags didnt it?

then when Dave bought it he put a pair of 20" XR2's on

[Burty]

still wouldn't hav had alternators though