DSK wrote in message ...
Joe wrote:

un-grounding

Good one... although it's a good idea to remember that sucking a lot of dirt into
the cooling water loop is not good.

Thats what your strainers are for! And I have a English style greaser
system not a cutlass bearing. Popular in England were the sand in the
canals whipe out cutlass bearing in no time



RIATM

Restricted in ability to manuaver

???



When not to: When you can do everything you need to do with wind and sail alone
When you remember that you just spent close to 500 dollars fueling up.

Damn Joe, how much fuel tankage does your boat have? Ours barely holds half that
much, and we can go to the Bahamas and back on it.....

That was a couple weeks ago and I did not shop around for fuel so had
to pay 1.47 a gallon. We hold 350 gallons fuel, 150 fresh water, 55
waste. And a emergency water tank I just installed in the engine room,
it's another 40 gallons.

Im going to have to replace the water tanks soon and do not look
forward to the project. I may just cut the tops off and install
bladders. At least Ill have a good excuse to re-model the counters
since Im going to have to remove/destroy them.

Joe

We can motersail from NY to London and have plenty to spare, with the
gen set running the whole time. I was low on fuel from last summers
Regetta and lots of local bay sailing and motering up and down the
ICW.

Burn about a gallon an hour max moter sailing at 8 kts in a 10 kt
wind with a 40 amp load on the genset. Less with more wind.


Joe



DSK