twoguns wrote:
It might be a stupid question to some of you old salts but hey I have
lived in Nebraska and Colorado all my life. The biggest body of water
close to my house is the stock tank by the windmill.

I have read about quite a few Ocean crossings in sailboats but I have
always wondered about crossing the Atlantic or Pacific in a motor
powered boat. I assume there are no gas stations floating around in the
middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans??? My experience with small
ski boats etc. is that they suck a lot of fuel. My old 18 foot Glastron
165 I/O MercCruiser would go through 25 gallons in a day easily. Using
fuel at that rate I figure it would take at least 1000 gallons to make
it from NYC to the UK (3500 miles give or take at 3.5 mpg). Does
anyone have any idea about what kinds of Atlantic/Pacific crossings
have been done in smaller powered craft?


A lot of smaller boats wouldn't go directly across from New York...they
might stop in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland and fuel up there. From
Newfoundland to Ireland (another refuel) is probably not much more than
half the distance from New York to England.