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Fuel consumption

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:56 am
by steve11
I recently purchased a 06 350. I will be transporting to my home approximately 350 miles. Looking for a very general idea of how much the Universal burns in an hour at 1/2 throttle to map out my needed refueling stops.

Re: Fuel consumption

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:46 am
by wolfe10
Figure a gallon an hour to be on the conservative side. Our actual consumption comes in around .7 GPH or just under 10 miles per gallon.

Brett

Re: Fuel consumption

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:23 am
by AynB
Over four years of running, various conditions, I can tell you that Halona burns 0.6 GpH average.
If we have a new, clean bottom and not much headwind, we have gotten as low as 0.45 GpH.
Dirty bottom, choppy seas, 15kt headwind, we figure 0.75 .
This data is over 3000 miles of run.
Hope this helps.
Al

PS: the above numbers come from an average of 2250 rpm.

Re: Fuel consumption

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:18 pm
by steve11
Thx. Your info is very helpful!

Re: Fuel consumption

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:58 am
by elk
I also have an '06, and I actually carefully measured the consumption last year over several hundreds of miles. We got 0.7 gph at 2000-2200 rpm, with no headwinds.