[Rhodes22-list] Nissan 4-Stroke

[Bill Effros]

Richard,

How quiet is your Nissan compared to a Yamaha?

What does it weigh?

Do you ever wish you had an 8 hp?

Bill Effros


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christine Allison 
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Rhodes 22 Fuel Mileage


Last summer I motored (no sailing) from Brooklyn under the Verrazano bridge,
around Staten Island and back to Brooklyn.  The trip took slightly more then
10 hours and according to my GPS I covered about 45 miles.

I started with slightly less then full tank of fuel and there was about a
pint remaining in the 5.5 gallon tank when I got back to Brooklyn.

The engine was a 2002 5.5hp Nissan four stroke.  I ran the whole trip at
about 60% throttle.

Via simple arithmetic I averaged 4.5 knots and my fuel consumption was about
8-9 miles/gallon.

Given the length of the trip.  The fact that I had helping and offsetting
counter currents that coupled with the constant RPM of the engine leads me
to believe that this is pretty good data.


Richard Smith

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