And I'll have to fill up again while I'm at the lake. Comes out to about $3.20/gallon after mixing two cycle oil...
<br /><br />i can have a heck of a day on 15 gallons <br /><br />but really we spent are week camping and water sking on lake george <br /><br />we ski with a 351 powered correct craft its very good on fuel about 20 gallons a day and were shot <br /><br />and we use the 3.0 maxum to go to town and pick up supplys and things used about 25 gallons on it all week<br /><br />so a week of great boating on lets say 150 gallons which was 450 dollars this year <br /><br />it was only about 80 dollars more than last summer<br /><br />tommays <br /><br />Last weekend we were hooking Dolphin three at a time working a weed line. Never could get a fourth line out. Probably could have done it all day but ran out of trolling bait and moved on to bottom fishing. Still pulled two very nice groupers plus some other assorted eatibles!<br /><br />Down side is we burned 85 gallons and ended up with about 30 pounds of filets, ran us around 6 bucks a pound for the fish.<br /><br />If I went to four strokers I could probably get somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.7 to 1.9 miles per gallon, as it is I get about one at 30 kts. <br /><br />I use a gas trailer to tank my boat so I can avoid the dock prices. Been trying to limit my long range runs, can do about 200 miles comfortably but have been sticking to 80 to 90 round trip to save some money. What are some of you guys having to pay at the dock? <br />Stalker
That's the thing...everybody complains and cancels road trips because of the prices, but when it comes down to it, it only adds a few extra bucks onto each trip. Why cancel a vacation over an extra $20 in gas?
It's like those people that run out and spend an extra $10,000 on hybrids just to save a few cents per gallon and somehow think they're saving money. 
