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To: Capt. Tom
>Non-boat owners can't relate to filling up a boat fuel tank and spending between $100 and in the case of big twin diesels in a sportfisherman a thousand dollars a fillup.<

Ya think?

Skippers of these "land yachts" feel your pain. An RV like this gets around 6-7 mpg, and holds 55 gallons of gasoline minimum. Tack on running the generator, and you can go through some gas in a hurry.

29 posted on 04/09/2006 7:14:23 PM PDT by Darnright (Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: Darnright
Skippers of these "land yachts" feel your pain. An RV like this gets around 6-7 mpg, and holds 55 gallons of gasoline minimum. Tack on running the generator, and you can go through some gas in a hurry

A person with a brain divides the number of nights he thinks he will use one of those things by the cost of the best motel room. per night. Guess which is always the cheapest. Oh, I do have a 20 foot pontoon, hasn't moved out of it trailer beside the barn in about ten years.

37 posted on 04/09/2006 7:36:36 PM PDT by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: Darnright
The last time we used our moterhome was last august. The dashboard air conditioner is not powerful enough to cool the entire vehicle on the road so we have to run the generator so we can use the "house" unit. This also allows us to keep the fridge running while on the road. We tow a chevy tracker behind it, called a "toad" in motorhome jargon. We got 5mpg. If we wanted to sweat like pigs, it gets 8mpg without the generator. Fuel tanks hold 80 gallons.
41 posted on 04/09/2006 7:47:38 PM PDT by Boiling point (If God had not meant for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!)
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