Real world fuel usage for various Nautique boats

[thedude]

All:

I'd like to put together a spreadsheet or chart that might help the community decide which boat is right for them. One thing that is on almost everyone's mind is fuel usage. For some its a non factor, for others its a big factor. If you have real world fuel usage numbers, please post them up. Please post up only if you have accurate gallons per hour numbers. Example: Tank was full at beginning of day, engine hours were 65.0. At the end of day, topped off tank with 20 gallons and engine hours were at 70.2. This would mean you used 3.8 Gallons per engine hour of use. Please post year and model boat, engine, prop, how loaded the boat was and primary use (skiing, wakeboarding, surfing). Also it would be nice to know if you were at high elevation or not.

I'll start:
2013 G23 with ZR450 engine- 2313 prop, stock ballast (2800 lbs) + 1-4 people in boat. 80% wakeboarding, 20% surfing with full ballast. Averaged over the past 15 engine hours: 7.4 GPH of fuel used @ approx 1500' above sea level.

A friend's boat:
2004 Super Air 210 team with ZR6 375hp engine - 1578 prop, 2000 lbs ballast + 5 people. 70% boarding with full ballast, 15% boarding with no ballast, 15% surfing full ballast: 3.5 GPM of fuel used @ approx 500' above sea level.

[nyryan2001]

Lots of other variables...what activities, how many falls...NCRS has a huge impact on fuel usage and RPMs...how many passengers...WHERE in the boat the extra weight is, IE surfing, rear weighted, bad prop shaft angle = worse gph's.

Here's my data pretty simple, this is how I would characterize it:

2013 450 G23 on 2315 prop
Going reasonable with factory ballast 6-10gph, under 3400rpms.
Going heavy approx 1200 above factory ballast 10-13gph. 3500-3700rpms

2014 550 G23 with OEM 15 x 14 prop
Going reasonable with factory ballast 8-12gph, under 3400rpms.
Going heavy approx 1500 above factory ballast 13-16gph. 3500-3700rpms

[Paxdad]

Here is mine from my last 4 gas purchases 2008 210 (343EX) 1579 Prop. 2 people in boat no ballast unless indicated below. Low elevation. 21.48 gals/ 8 hours= 2.685gph>>>>22 gals/ 8.1 hours=2.71 gals/ hour>>>>3.7 hours/ 11.7 hours=3.16 gals/ hour (full ballast>>>>12 gals/5.3 hours= 2.26 gals/ hour. My typical day out consist of idle out from ramp drop rope and ride. Very little open water run time on the lake where I am at. I always start with a full tank when tracking my fuel consumption. I run the Stabil Marine stabilizer as well. 95% wakeboarding 5% freeride skiing.

[bradw]

Lots of other variables...what activities, how many falls...NCRS has a huge impact on fuel usage and RPMs...how many passengers...WHERE in the boat the extra weight is, IE surfing, rear weighted, bad prop shaft angle = worse gph's.

Here's my data pretty simple, this is how I would characterize it:

2013 450 G23 on 2315 prop
Going reasonable with factory ballast 6-10gph, under 3400rpms.
Going heavy approx 1200 above factory ballast 10-13gph. 3500-3700rpms

2014 550 G23 with OEM 15 x 14 prop
Going reasonable with factory ballast 8-12gph, under 3400rpms.
Going heavy approx 1500 above factory ballast 13-16gph. 3500-3700rpms

50-60 lph in a G23 with 550hp engine that scares me.....

[Quinner]

Holy Crap, that is a ridiculous amount of fuel use, one thirf boat consumes as much fuel as 2 fully loaded tractors trailers running along at 60mph. Not only destroying the shoreline but emitting gobs of pollutants, lol, treehuggers unite.

Glad I only do real watersports, so much "greener" and leaving a far smaller footprint.

[Nordicron]

Real world fuel usage for various Nautique boats

Ok here is some real world fuel use for you guys:
1.9 hrs =13.2 gals fuel use. 6.95gals/hr

This was 4 wake board sets at 22.9mph, sets lasted about 25mins avg about 6falls and each set was 7miles long(river) no turn arounds. 08 San 210 with 343 and 1235 prop. About 2700 ballast and 2 in boat. Sets started at dock so no motoring time and prob only 5mins total idle time.

My buddies 2010 x-15 with the 350 motor and 2400lbs of ballast uses about 7.8gals/hr with exact same runs.

So moral of story is the more weight you push through the water the more fuel you burn. Everybody goes nuts with ironj's fuel use numbers but I guarantee there aren't many people that track their usage like his nor run the weight he does. Every minute you spend idling or not pulling a rider around your fuel average is gonna look much better than otherwise would. I go out with several guys that never shut there boat down from the time they back it in the water to the time they pull it out. All that idle time is using fuel and counting to hrs but not anywhere near the rate of actually towing a rider with ballast. Also many of these guys don't even count true engine hrs in their calcs. My rant on fuel use...

[nyryan2001]

Glad I only do real watersports, so much "greener" and leaving a far smaller footprint.

[perry386]

Nyryan is possibly my favorite person right now.

[thedude]

Thanks for the replies all, keep them coming!

Would like to get some data for a 230 with excal 343 and 230 with ZR 375/390/409 if anyone could gather that next time out.

[perry386]

Thanks for the replies all, keep them coming!

Would like to get some data for a 230 with excal 343 and 230 with ZR 375/390/409 if anyone could gather that next time out.

230 with ZR390: 80% stock ballast wakeboard, 20% 400 piggyback surfing, and an average of about 5-6 people on board we see 3-4GPH
Had a 1235 prop an now have a 1579 and there is no difference in fuel consumption.


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[Zach@n3]

Don't let Quinner fool you, his boat has a tower with big loud speakers!!

[vision]

2013 G23 450 engine. Ride with 2/3rds ballast mostly. 80% wake, 15% cruising, 5% surf. 6.15 gph over 180 hours.

[ironj32]

2013 SAN G23 XS550 with 3000 pounds on top of stock ballast @ 24mph burns about 16 gph.

[Laptom]

230 with a 390hp ZR-6. On petrol around 5Gph, on LPG around 5.5Gph. Normal wakeboarding/surfing/skating with standard ballast and 3-5people.

[sheltonpg]

Perry 386

Great info. I have a 2008 SANTE 230 myself with the ZR390 and was wondering how the two props 1235 and 1579 perform on your boat? Also I have the exact same setup with piggyback sacks and ballasts but cannot get my boat dialed in for Surfing. Can you tell me what you do to set your boat up for surfing?

230 with ZR390: 80% stock ballast wakeboard, 20% 400 piggyback surfing, and an average of about 5-6 people on board we see 3-4GPH
Had a 1235 prop an now have a 1579 and there is no difference in fuel consumption.


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