[QUOTE=customtouch;2589792]We might be kin folk, too funny

Doc, jason and who ever just a thought with twin 500hps to 650 hps in a 33 boat. what would you burn a hour at 3500, 4000, WFO I no this has nuthing to do with this tread but since your all hear give me some feed back please, I am thing of moving up, artie

is that blakes site or another site?

2002 Baja 36 Outlaw
500 EFI engines with Merlin Heads and 741 Crane cam
with ECM reprogram = 598 HP at 5400 RPM

Here is exactly what I just copied off my last computer scan from last year. This report is huge but if you email me I can sent it to you so you will see first hand.

Idle = 2.36 GPH
1600 RPM = 6.56 GPH
2150 RPM = 10.48 GPH
3200 RPM = 18.92 GPH
3500 RPM = 19.56 GPH
3800 RPM = 20.62 GPH
4000 RPM = 22.06 GPH
4200 RPM = 27.31 GPH
4500 RPM = 31.48 GPH
4800 RPM = 34.35 GPH
5000 RPM = 35.76 GPH
5200 RPM = 38.04 GPH
5299 RPM = 38.37 GPH
5400 RPM = 40.75 GPH

Note what happens over 4000 RPM.

I hope this helps you out and answers your question.

Remember this is per engine so on a twin it is times two.

Cruise my boat at 3800 RPM and you are burning 42 gallons per hour.

Which comes out to a little over $400 per hour at WOT. That is if you are only paying $5.00 a gallaon! Premium "on the water" must be at least that much now and will probably be that much "on land" soon!!

Maybe surfers define it this way but they also smoke a lot of weed!

Wave height is simply the vertical distance between crest and trough. Amplitude is the vertical distance from crest to sea level/waterline.

wonder what he measures this wave to be ?

You think that might have made him pucker a little
Jay

Official Transcript from the Senate Sub-committee on Wave Heights. The meeting was called to order at 9:30 am. Committee members present:

Jim Paymemore-D Utah,
Frank Swindle-R Ohio,
William Huckster-D Maine


Paymemore: Let's begin this meeting by introducing our expert witnesses that have kindly given of their time to be with us today. From Hawaii we have Kiko Kamahana, from San Calamity California we have Jimmy X and from Cuckoo Beach Florida we have Jon Ronny. Senator Huckster, could you bring us up to speed on the problems as you see it.

Huckster: Well the problem is there is not a standard way to measure wave heights. A 2 ft. wave in Hawaii might be called a 4 ft. wave in California and a double overhead monster on the East Coast.

Swindle: How could this be? How many ways can there be to measure a wave?

Huckster: Why don't we let our experts explain how they measure waves. We will start with Mr. X from California.

X: On the west coast we measure the wave by how high the face is just before it breaks. We judge the height by comparing it to the oil platforms just offshore. Another method we use is by how hard it is to find a parking place. For every five minutes you look for a place to park, add one foot to the wave height.

Huckster: Very good Mr. X, now lets hear from Mr. Ronny from Florida.

Ronny: The right way to measure wave heights is with a ruler. Usually a one foot ruler will do, but during the Hurricane season we pull out the old yard stick. You just walk out into the waves and stop when your ankles get wet. Then push the ruler as deep into the sand as you can. Then just step back and wait for the next set wave to come crashing in. If the wave covers the ruler, then it was over one foot. Any thing else we measure in inches, although I heard that some guys in Virginia Beach were using the metric system, with wave heights in millimeters.

Huckster: Well that's very interesting, now Mr.. Kamahana, will you bring us up to speed on the Hawaiian method of measuring wave heights ?

Kamahana: The right way to measure waves is from the back of the wave.

Swindle: How do you do that when you can't see the back of a wave ?

Kamahana: Well, we don't actually measure the back of the wave, we use something called the inverse haole formula. The formula is 1/H * 50 = wave height, where H = the number of haoles out at our local break.

Huckster: So let me see if I got this right, if there are 50 haoles out, then 1/50 * 50 would equal a 1 ft. wave.

Kamahana: You got it bro, and if there is only 2 haoles out, we have a 25 ft. monster!

Huckster: Well then gentlemen, as you can see we have a problem as to which of these methods if any should be adopted as the official wave height index.

Paymemore: I move that we adjourn this meeting and re-convene in Hawaii next week for an extended stay so that we study the problem first hand.

Swindle: I second the motion, this meeting stands adjourned.

Not so young grasshopper.... Amplitude and wave height are one in the same- measured from baseline/waterline to crest. That's not just surfsmack.... it's science!