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I filled my car up today and paid $3.57 per gal. :smt021

I afraid to see what it will be on the water this summer. :wow:

You guys can start calling me .... Dock Queen Wayne. :grin:

2-100gal gas tanks. :smt089
 
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Wayne's World said:
I filled my car up today and paid $3.57 per gal. :smt021

I afraid to see what it will be on the water this summer. :wow:

You guys can start calling me .... Dock Queen Wayne. :grin:

2-100gal gas tanks. :smt089
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Don't you get a senior citizens discount like i do???? :smt021
 
I allocate $X.XX for fuel each season. When it's gone it's gone. The trips will be shorter and slower, but there will be trips. I am lucky in that there is a lot of activity within 10 miles of home port.

Add to that practicing docking does not take a lot of fuel.
 
Bill, I'm only 54 yrs old I don't think that counts as being a senior citizen. :wow:
 
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A few years ago we were paying $5.00 gallon on the lake. We spent most of the summer at idle(no wake) speed. Our lake is small and it does not take that long at idle speed to get where we are going. Of course a few times had to crank it up for the tubers.
 
Yeah gas prices always seem to be a hot topic each season. Last 2 years weren't bad. But the run I made from DC, to BIH was pricey. Was running low and had to pay $5.30/gal at Quantico on the trip back

Our plan is to be out every weekend, trips may be shorter in distance, but the fun is all the same
 
Good evening all,

New to the site so hope you don't mind a newcomer joining in. The last time gas was this high I had a single engine 27' Rinker cruiser, but I seemed to run a whole lot more fuel through it than I do with my 300. I think we ran the Rinker more like a runabout. Now we seem to cruise a lot slower and anchor out more so I am hoping we can deal with the gas prices. We'll use the boat just as much but won't go as far.
 
Were probably in for an abbreviated boating season this year.We'll be lucky to get out before mid-June.

They are predicting the worst spring flooding in history. Worst was 25.5' in 1965 and they are already predicting 28' this year with lots of precip/snow in the forecast for the next week or so at least. :smt089
 
PostTime, Welcome to CSR. :smt001. Jump in any topic you want to and post away . :thumbsup:
 
We are paying US$6.45 per gallon here which is why it was going to cost me US$3500.00 to cruise the boat from the Gold Coast down to Port Stephens. Now our government is going to slap a carbon tax on top of this so I expect that will add close to another 25 to 50 cents a gallon so you may as well say we will soon be at US$7.00 per gallon.

I put $600 worth in my boat the other week and it was enough to fill one tank half way and the other tank about 2/5 of the way. My boat holds 288.5 gallons.
 
My feeling is like what some of you are saying. Go, but not as fast and maybe not as far. Weather the storm of high prices, just make sure you are out there enjoying being on the water with your family and friends. I have waited a long time to have this boat. I am not going to let the ultra rich, powerful and the idiots ruin my fun on the water.
 
Searaybio270 said:
My feeling is like what some of you are saying. Go, but not as fast and maybe not as far. Weather the storm of high prices, just make sure you are out there enjoying being on the water with your family and friends. I have waited a long time to have this boat. I am not going to let the ultra rich, powerful and the idiots ruin my fun on the water.
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Amen Joe. Floating on the water and letting the kids play is just fine. that is what the radio and beer are for!
 
Wayne's World said:
Holy crap !!!. :wow: . Paul are all you guys millionaires down there. :grin:
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Lets just say that there are an awful amount of boats for sale here, mine being one of them.

A lot of marine businesses are going bust cause boaters are not spending any money on their boats as it is going into filling them with gas.

Wouldn't it be great if they could make some kind of miniature nuclear power plant to replace the need for gas guzzlers like we have. Perhaps a safe hydrogen fuel cell type system might work. There was a guy in Australia that invented the seawater engine but the patents were soon purchased by some oil company and the engine never saw the light of day besides the one the guy built for demo purposes.

Now wouldn't that be a great way to boat, just suck up your fuel as you went along.:smt038:grin:
 
I've been boating for a lot of years, and my experience has been that people have always boated regardless of the price of gasoline or diesel, except for one year. That was 1973. There was no gasoline to be had. I got up at 5 in the morning to get in line for enough gas to commute to downtown Chicago. With the situation in the middle east being what it is, this season reminds me of 1973. If fuel s available, I say the hell with it. We are going boating.
 
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I will be on the water no matter how high it gets. Life is too short. I will sell non-vital body organs for boat gas if I have to.
 
Quint4 said:
I will be on the water no matter how high it gets. Life is too short. I will sell non-vital body organs for boat gas if I have to.
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MY MAN :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Quint4 said:
I will be on the water no matter how high it gets. Life is too short. I will sell non-vital body organs for boat gas if I have to.
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Would you sell one kidney for five gallons of gas? That was all you could buy in 1973 without getting back in a very long line.
 
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