Thinking of buying a sealine 290 ambassador

Well how far do you go? If you use 20gal per hour at diesel price of 50p ltr then that works out at 35hrs per year ish (£1,500), so is it worth having such a nice boat as that for such few hours? Maybe my maths is wrong but I am sure you will correct me if it is. I still love your boat /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Well I can't see diesel boats going up in value lts put it that way. At the moment a 24 or 26ft boat if you elect to have diesel they charge a premium of £10,000 ON TOP of the price of say a Volvo 5.0GXi or Mercruiser 5.0mpi, Ok they can say that your finance will be £150 a month more but you will save that on diesel, well that load of baloney will be hard to swallow at the boat show next week as it will take more convincing to pay the extra premium for diesel, SO the diesel prices will have to drop or what nutter is going to buy one? I guess nutters have been known to frequent boat shows so let's see /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I can't understand why they are so much more expensive anyway, the safety aspect is scaremongering by the illiterate and scaremongering fools that go on about it /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

If the premium was as it is in cars then OK, but someone is taking the piss somewhere with those silly prices. The same will apply to bigger boats, may as well all have twin 8.7ltrs and some fun instead of having pot noodles on a swinging mooring moaning /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Other concideration is that petrol can be converted to us LPG in the future, providing a cheaper fuel option. What option do you have with diesel, besides used chip fat ?

Brian
 
No but the cost of running my trucks at the moment is getting out of hand. Ever seen a truck pulling a water skier? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Oh! and have you ever considred taking your family for a weekend away or on holiday in your truck /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Sorry maybe people from up North do that so I shouldn't make comments like that /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I had my wife in my truck once and as a result of that had to marry her, not making that mistake again /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Afraid GC1 is a bit of a wanker, and a troll. But even at his figures, the boat has still covered 700 sea miles, which is quite a reasonably cheap month long holiday, covering most of the south coast CI's and france.
 
My figures were on Moose's annual £1,500 fuel bill, are you saying the boat is only used for one month of the year, if so add the mooring fee's maintenance and depreciation to the figures, errr.. a very expensive holiday for a month IMHO /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Yes, I took my wife on a sight seeing mission of eorope, the iron curtain countries and the middle east. Our last port of call was Jedaha, Saudi Arabia. Returned via Jordan Syria and Turkey. The kids loved there trip to Holand and could ride there bikes round the 40ft flat bed trailer.
 
I think you are a bit inexperienced. let me enlighten you see boats that can use 20 gallons an hour dont always do that, because you may be in a speed limited or busy water way. Weather / tide conditions can also mean you don't run flat out all the time. hence you can run down the power curve and not use max fuel.

one further bit of enlightenment coming your way-you will get a lot further if you drop the insults.
 
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It may surprise you to learn that I don't burn 20 flippin' gph all the time. For a start, every trip I do has 5 miles of trundling through Chichester harbour at about 4-5gph.
 
I dont see many supliers of LPG, I think there are just a handful left-of course rising fuel prices may bring it back, but whats the cost of conversion? amortising the cost over annual fuel usage does not make it a good option for many.
 
You are a bit slow. But I'll bare with you for now. 650 gallon fuel tanks gave me a bigger range than Concord. Red diesel through the Eastern Block. Refuel in Saudi at 4p a gallon, topped up in Syria at 10p a gallon.

Return trip from Saudi about £25 quid.
 
Not your boat or engines but annual figures for mine might put fuel consumption in perspective:

Boat has a single 4.3 205Hp V6, burns around 18Gal/hr flat out at 33kts BUT the annual figures tell a different story:

101 engine hours
507 Nm travelled
180 Gals of petrol consumed
So that gives overall avg speed of 5kts (mainly due to slow river trip before getting to open sea)
and avg consumption of 2.75 Nm/Gal

Might help you, might not but hope it puts the headline Gal/hr in perspective. You´ll only come close to that if you spend a high proportion of your running time at high speed, normally sea conditions, local limits or other factors will slow you down. One other observation is that spot readings indicate my consumption doesn´t move far from the average whatever the speed....
 
Thanks Simon. Thats good info, appreciated.

Only thing that worries me now is how to get the petrol to the boat! What is the easiest way to fill her up if the Marina doesn't stock petrol......2 or 3 x 5 gallon drums at the petrol station? Daft question, I know, any advice?
 
if you want to upset yer neihbours its a good idea to start slopping lots of that luverly flamable stuff into the tanks just as they are cooking breakfast on the gas cooker.
if you or anyone started filling yer boat next to me i would mighty angry /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
might sort out a few extra berths if yer dan sarf as well /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

i would suggest you keep your boat near to marina that serves petrol and fill up as needed. then plan your route to take on more at the correct place.
 
4 gph is a bit excessive at river speeds although if you are talking petrol engines it might be the case. Our Perkins 145hp diesels do 1.3 gph at reiver speeds (and thats is for both engines)
 
I had heard similar things about Sealine as well. Howoever, I know people who have them and they seem pretty good to me, so much so that I am considering buying one. Perhaps it was the early ones that weren't so good...?
 
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