Had to take the opportunity to sit up front for a change and I have to say I LOVE IT!!! Granted, conditions were ideal yesterday with very little wind over our neighboring 5,000 acre aqua-playground.
Not that it is loud (in the cockpit) or anything, but sitting up front is WAY COOL. It is quieter as you only hear practically nothing but the breeze and you're sort of elevated a bit and the bow spray is anything but as it was far behind me...it was awesome! The wife had to practically pry me back into the driver's seat. I doubt she was doing more than 20-25.
Do yourself a favor and sit up front sometime if you haven't, yet.
I should also add that I've come to appreciate using the SS as a mini-pontoon cruiser. I absolutely hated to admit it, but even going around the lake, which is in the vicinity of 20 miles, cruising at speed made for a quick trip (@ 22-27, or so). So we started to slow-no-wake it for a while, then zip along, over and over again. It stretches the journey out and is A LOT OF FUN.
Do yourself another favor and just idle along from time to time. I guess it's not all about speed, after all. Who'da thunk it?
(admission---SNW zones SUCK, but going SNW by choice isn't bad at all)
PS...Fuel economy is pretty sweet with this little Evinrude 70 rig...I think we burned about 3 gallons making that lap of about 20 miles (slow and fast). Yesterday was about 4 gallons taking about a lap and a half +/- 27-30 miles (again, slow and fast). I will admit that I didn't GPS the mileage, but I recall taking the JetSki out and it had a pretty accurate speedo. Our trips were usually around 2-2.5 hours which is pretty good for keeping the toddler happy.
Our timing yesterday was great as an 85 16' SS made a maiden voyage for some lucky guy yesterday and his 90HP Ev performed well I was told (I left him a note about iBoats, too) and some other fisherman was just launching with a 70 just like mine. Great minds think alike!
Not that it is loud (in the cockpit) or anything, but sitting up front is WAY COOL. It is quieter as you only hear practically nothing but the breeze and you're sort of elevated a bit and the bow spray is anything but as it was far behind me...it was awesome! The wife had to practically pry me back into the driver's seat. I doubt she was doing more than 20-25.
Do yourself a favor and sit up front sometime if you haven't, yet.
I should also add that I've come to appreciate using the SS as a mini-pontoon cruiser. I absolutely hated to admit it, but even going around the lake, which is in the vicinity of 20 miles, cruising at speed made for a quick trip (@ 22-27, or so). So we started to slow-no-wake it for a while, then zip along, over and over again. It stretches the journey out and is A LOT OF FUN.
Do yourself another favor and just idle along from time to time. I guess it's not all about speed, after all. Who'da thunk it?
(admission---SNW zones SUCK, but going SNW by choice isn't bad at all)
PS...Fuel economy is pretty sweet with this little Evinrude 70 rig...I think we burned about 3 gallons making that lap of about 20 miles (slow and fast). Yesterday was about 4 gallons taking about a lap and a half +/- 27-30 miles (again, slow and fast). I will admit that I didn't GPS the mileage, but I recall taking the JetSki out and it had a pretty accurate speedo. Our trips were usually around 2-2.5 hours which is pretty good for keeping the toddler happy.
Our timing yesterday was great as an 85 16' SS made a maiden voyage for some lucky guy yesterday and his 90HP Ev performed well I was told (I left him a note about iBoats, too) and some other fisherman was just launching with a 70 just like mine. Great minds think alike!
