More Fun with Less Fuel

'How much fuel will it burn?' is one of the most-asked questions at a marine dealer's showroom. It certainly is a question we get tons of mail about. But you might not realize that the answer to that question is largely in your own hands: It's in the way you handle the throttle. It's also in the way you load or overload your boat and the way you trim it. There are more than a half-dozen contributing factors to an overindulence at the fuel pump, so to give you the best tools to boat green and save gas, we tapped our contacts at the Ralph Evinrude Test Center in Stuart, Florida.