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Don White
 
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Default Atlantic Crossing on small power Boat ?

Jim Carter wrote:

Well, it's been done in power boats smaller than yours, but, they had
fueling boats accompanying them. You cannot carry enough fuel in your 30
foot Aft Cabin Bayliner to do this trip. Also, your Bayliner is not the
proper boat to do this with. It is not an ocean going vessel. The first
big ocean wave over the boat will crush your windscreen and fill your boat
with water and sink it.

With the things that you are adding to the boat, you are increasing it's
weight substantially. The extra fuel, the heavier diesel engine, and the
generator and the food and water, may also prove your boat unstable and it
could sink from that.
Why would you leave from New York?
The Great Circle Northern route is the best suited to an attempt to cross
the Atlantic in a small vessel. The ones that have made this trip before
use this route.

You had better rethink this and go back to school on Monday.



Maybe we should introduce this 'Awsome' character to 'Skipper' over in
wrecked.boats.
Skipper claims to have ridden out hurricanes with a couple dozen fuel
cans strapped to the gunwales of his 21 foot 'Bilgeliner' ...er...Bayliner.