Fish Chris
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I had a small tin boat go by me in mine, about 50 feet away. Okay, it was maybe only a 12 or 13ft'er, and there was only one guy in it. On top of that, it wasn't going too awefully fast.... maybe only 18 or 20 mph, but was on a nice level plane.
But here's the amazing thing, this darn thing made the smallest, almost undetectable wake of ANY boat, of any size, I have ever seen ! I mean, there was a very small chop on the water anyway, and you had to look closely to see which waves came from the boat !
With so little wake being produced, doesn't this also mean the boat is experiencing very little drag ??? I wonder what kind of mileage that boat gets ? I think he had a 9.9hp 4 stroker on it.
I thought my boat did pretty well on fuel, even though it has a 25hp, and throws a "normal" sized wake.... which would be about 10 X's the water that this boat was moving !
Can anybody shed some light on this ?
Curious,
Fish
PS, My old 12ft'er was like a darn barge ! It tried to push half the lake along with it..... but maybe the trade off was that it was very stable for a little 12 ft v-hull....
But here's the amazing thing, this darn thing made the smallest, almost undetectable wake of ANY boat, of any size, I have ever seen ! I mean, there was a very small chop on the water anyway, and you had to look closely to see which waves came from the boat !
With so little wake being produced, doesn't this also mean the boat is experiencing very little drag ??? I wonder what kind of mileage that boat gets ? I think he had a 9.9hp 4 stroker on it.
I thought my boat did pretty well on fuel, even though it has a 25hp, and throws a "normal" sized wake.... which would be about 10 X's the water that this boat was moving !
Can anybody shed some light on this ?
Curious,
Fish
PS, My old 12ft'er was like a darn barge ! It tried to push half the lake along with it..... but maybe the trade off was that it was very stable for a little 12 ft v-hull....