How many miles on full 2018 WakePro 230?

[houseboater]

Looking at doing a 100 mile lake ride (round trip) with 15.9 gallon full tank on relatively smooth water at about 25-30 mph consistently. Anyone have any experience with gas mileage on this model or similar? I'll take some extra gas but wondering how much is enough not to worry about it. My guess is I can do the entire trip and be about on fumes when I return to the marina but considering taking about 5 gallons extra with me. No fuel dock on this particular route unfortunately.

 

[benjilafouine]

Buy a linq system and an additional gas tank.

My lake is 50 miles round trip and from experience at that speed I think would run out of gas or get close. At 30 mph I doubt you would last more than two hours. Make the math. With an extra 5 gallons, yes maybe. I don’t think the size of the engine matters much. It is more of a speed thing.

 

[Googus]

Have you ever ran it at speed and looked at the Gallon Per Hour??
At 40 mph on calm conditions I am around 5gallon per hour. This type should give you a base line in fuel consumption. 2018 GTX155 even though at cruising speed I don’t think engine size comes into play

 

[LakesideRec]

Searching for some articles on fuel consumption, the consensus is more like 7 to 8 GPH at 35 MPH for the SeaDoo 230 which with the 15 gallon tank would only give you a 70 mile range or so.
It also depends a lot on weight load, wind, and waves conditions. Two riders vs one is an extra 20% of weight. A headwind will start to be significant for those kind of distances. Rough water is going to sap a lot of fuel to pound through the waves compared to gliding over them.

 

[houseboater]

Searching for some articles on fuel consumption, the consensus is more like 7 to 8 GPH at 35 MPH for the SeaDoo 230 which with the 15 gallon tank would only give you a 70 mile range or so.

Thanks - good info. I decided to take an extra 10 gallons of fuel which should be plenty.

 

[LakesideRec]

Thanks - good info. I decided to take an extra 10 gallons of fuel which should be plenty.

How did it go? Did you use all 15.9 gallons?

 

[houseboater]

How did it go? Did you use all 15.9 gallons?

Thanks for the reminder - I meant to come back here and give an update! Halfway (50 miles) I was down to 3-4 bars (kept going back and forth). That was with two people - (about 275 pounds total) and 17 gallons of fuel on the back. I topped off with about 10 gallons from the cans and made it back at 3-4 bars again. Pretty smooth water most of the way and did about 30 mph on the way down and 34-35 mph on the way back.

My sense is I could have gone about 70 miles on a full tank at that speed and that weight.

Photo is my setup of the gas cans. Two 3.5 gallon Rotopax attached to the rack and two 5.0 gallon cans in the rack. Had a full 5 gallon can and about 2 gallons left in the other 5 gallon at the end.