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On 5 Feb 2005 23:02:46 -0800, wrote:
Don't know about down in your section of the planet, but nobody up here
routinely refers to a
boat with very short range as a "passage maker". I was just guessing
that the range might be 250 nm at 20kt. Bet I'm not all that far off,
though.

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I agree. A boat of that size and weight will typically burn between 2
and 3 gallons of diesel per mile at 20 kts. 1,000 gallons of fuel
would give you a safe working range of 250 to 400 miles. My guess is
that it doesn't even carry that much.

A real "passage maker" as opposed to a coastal cruiser or dock condo
would typically have a working range in excess of 1,000 miles. Most
large sport fishing boats have a range of 400 miles and no one has
ever suggested that they were passage makers.