Bayliner 2655 / 2855 fuel consumption?

[Whitelighter]

Hi Steve,

My second boat was a 2005 285 with the Mag 350 MPI engine. Over a full season I averaged 11 gallons (50 litres) per hour. And that included driving like this:

My Chris craft 260 (26 feet) had an older 5.7l carbed Volvo which averaged about 9 gph (40 litres per hour)

 

[Pete7]

Steve, I am moving our new (to us) Sealine 240 from Brixham up to Portmsouth on Tuesday, weather permitting. She has a 5.7 V8 Volvo on carbs and a Navman 500i fuel meter / GPS so I will let you know how we get on.
Pete

 

[Steve_I]

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Hi Steve,

My second boat was a 2005 285 with the Mag 350 MPI engine. Over a full season I averaged 11 gallons (50 litres) per hour. And that included driving like this:

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Thanks for the info Jez. That looked like damned good fun! All of the feedback I'm getting seems to point to somewhere between 40 and 50 quid an hour in fuel costs, which is pretty small in comparison to all the other associated costs! I think someone pointed out on here if you thought about the cost of running a boat, you would never buy one in the first place, so I've now stopped trying to justify the money....I'll just do it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Thanks again
Steve

 

[Steve_I]

Pete... Many thanks, that would be good info as my other choice at the moment is Sealine. Post some pictures here of the voyage!
Steve

 

[neale]

There is a rough calculation which works out fairly accurately and that is:

7gph per 100hp at WOT

So a 260hp V8 at WOT will use around 18gph. This will drop considerably with reduced revs. I used to cruise with a 5.0 230hp V8 and it would use around 9-10gph at 25 knots for about 3500rpm

 

[ported0]

I reckon I am getting 40 litres an hour, 7.4 litre 2655 it is not much more thirsty than the rib I had although it went everywhere at 30 knots.

the bonus is inside.

 

[DAKA]

My stats

5.0 LX V8 230 hp
2651 (2655)

27 mph 11 gph
2.5mpg
(2.2 knmpg)

This is at cruising speed.

Try not to worry too much about cost per hour, at the end of the year you will not have used that much (unfortunately /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif ), just look at the average engine hours 30-50 a year of which 60% will have been at harbor speed and tick-over so little fuel is used.

 

[ported0]

i like the pics in your album looks like fun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Steve_I]

Hi John,
The pictures you posted are what has got us hankering for a 2855.... plenty of space! There are a lot of good bars and restaurants around Hartlepool marina so we'll probably spend most of our time tied up anyway!

 

[ported0]

hi steve
yup good compromise and because you can get between places fairly quickly your not really burning that much. Anyway it will have to do me until I can afford a Nordhavn or similar and take on the atlantic /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Pete7]

Steve hi, well we did it but...

Forecast for Lyme Bay on Wed was 14-16 mph but the mid channel bouy was recording 2.5m swells marching up the channel from the S West. Filling up in Torquay we met a bloke called Turpin, Dick Turpin to be precise who robbed us for £1.30 a litre /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif We then went out to have a look at the conditions. 10 miles later towards Portland we had F5-6 and the swell meant some challenging driving in the Sealine 240 at 18 - 20 knots. Reducing down to 10 - 12 knots meant everything calmed down but we needed to press on. It took 2.5 hours to do the 41 miles to Portland Bill and the race was running so we crept in using the calmish water close into the light house.

Refueled 40 litres from cans in Portland, lunch and then on to the Noodles and the Solent however the seas were now down to F4 with just the odd scary moment in a quartering sea.

Yarmouth at 5pm just in time to refuel again, but this time at £1.01 per litre, taking 165 litres almost made me smile /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

With darkness in the Solent we were down to 18 knots just to be safe although very calm Stu was making sarnies and doing chartwork down below quite happily in those conditions.

Figures, the engine is a 570 275 hp (5.7L V8) volvo on carbs. The rough condions upset the normal lpm figures but in the calm of Portland bill we managed 2800 revs at 20/22 knots 0.46 mpl or I think, 45 lph. At 3500 revs 27 knots at 76 lph. Couldn't remember the mpl figure but about 0.4 mpl. Engine will apparently go to 4400 but conditons didn't allow it. Worst we saw was 12 knots in Lyme bay in the big swell and 0.32 mpl.

Both Stu and I were impressed with the way the Sealine handled the conditions. I wouldn't normally choose to go out in a F5-6 with a big quartering swell but we wanted her home. Nothing broke despite a couple of hard landings and although we took an ocasional spray over the boat she stayed very dry, pumps didn't have anything to do when we got home. Looking at the pictures of the bayliners she is smaller so understand if you go that way, but very impressed with the Sealine and what is effectively a medium V hull, having only had ribs before. One thing we did notice however is the line of sight (at speed) from the steering wheel is though the wind screen but you get a better view over the top if you sit on a large fender on the seat. We will make a large seat cushion during the winter for this, but something worth checking on,

Pete