Halibut run with the e-tec

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stevej

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Made two runs out to the chicken ranch last weekend. Ocean was pretty good both days we ran 15 yo 17 mph on the way out, enough chop that you had to keep a hand on the throttle and watch the wave sets pretty close at that speed.
Outbound is against the current and swell, three people, 100 gal gas, 12 gal water, full load of fishing equipment and supplies. Averaged close to 2.5 mpg.
Trip home was smoother and ran at 25 mph 4000 RPM 3 plus mpg, hit a smooth enough section to make 32 mph for a moment.

Used 30 gal of gas both days logging little over 80 mile for each trip so average was close to 2.7 mpg.

At idle 4mph 12 mpg
6 mph 6 mpg plus
Fishing was bad so had way too much time to check my mileage numbers at low speed between drifts

What I like
After the howl of the Yamaha the e-tec is a treat very comfortable sound level even with the cabin door open
200 hp feels about perfect plenty of power easy 25 mph cruise with load and don't appear to be giving up much milage for the extra power.
Warm or cold takes about a half second of cranking to start

What I don't like
Low speed maneuverability is not as good, the boat seems to want too move sideways as opposed to turning until you give additional throttle maybe prop walk?
Backing up sucks really need to be aggressive with the throttle

Other than that I could not be happier

stevej
 
Steve, don’t think the permatrim would help in this situation.
Still getting used to the handling but as an example if I back out of my slip getting going straight back no problem, I then crank the aft hard to starboard and the boat tends to turn a little and slide to port. When the bow has cleared the dock and I transition from full lock reverse turn to full lock forward turn once again some turn and some slide to starboard now. You can overcome the slide with additional throttle, lot of throttle in reverse to correct not as much going forward. It’s not a huge deal just takes getting use to.
My Yamaha was very good at low speed tight quarters maneuvering at idle so the new behavior has created a few anxious moments. To me if feels like prop walk and is probably due to the combination of fairly large prop, shallow draft and flat bottom.

Thanks for the idea though
stevej
 
Sounds good, except the slow fishing part. I wonder what's up with the halibut fishing this year? I've heard people blaming long liners ect but I'm not so sure of that.
 
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