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Quillan · 01-25-08, 05:09 PM

In the vanilla version, Ahead 1/3 gets you about 8.5 knots in calm seas, while Ahead 2/3 pushes something close to 12 knots. You'll lose some efficiency running there. ROW changes the values to a steady increase: each throttle setting is another 20% of top speed. Ahead 2/3 in a Gato or Balao gets you to about 8.5 knots, which is nice and efficient.

One other thing though, that some people have posted and I've confirmed through personal experience: if you suffer battery damage, even though it will be fixed, the boat will no longer automatically switch recharging off. The result will be the engines running hard to maintain the same speed, wasting quite a lot of fuel.

01-25-08, 05:09 PM	#7
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	In the vanilla version, Ahead 1/3 gets you about 8.5 knots in calm seas, while Ahead 2/3 pushes something close to 12 knots. You'll lose some efficiency running there. ROW changes the values to a steady increase: each throttle setting is another 20% of top speed. Ahead 2/3 in a Gato or Balao gets you to about 8.5 knots, which is nice and efficient. One other thing though, that some people have posted and I've confirmed through personal experience: if you suffer battery damage, even though it will be fixed, the boat will no longer automatically switch recharging off. The result will be the engines running hard to maintain the same speed, wasting quite a lot of fuel. __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.