Wayne.B wrote:

http://www.discoverystlucia.com/photogallery.asp


Now is the time to buy one of these suckers. Westport builds them to
164 foot (onyx floors and elevators) and they finish them here in the
Port Angeles marina. There hasn't been one in here now for quite some
time and Westport is biting the bullet.
Westport did have a big Fountain cigarette type boat in here for
testing the other day. Triple turbo Cummins with some sort of jet drive.
Word is they are working on something for the military.
Gordon

On Mar 29, 9:06*am, Gordon wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:

http://www.discoverystlucia.com/photogallery.asp

* *Now is the time to buy one of these suckers. Westport builds them to
164 foot (onyx floors and elevators) and they finish them here in the
Port Angeles marina. There hasn't been one in here now for quite some
time and Westport is biting the bullet.
* Westport did have a big Fountain cigarette type boat in here for
testing the other day. Triple turbo Cummins with some sort of jet drive.
Word is they are working on something for the military.
* Gordon

Gordon, you didn't put a link in there....

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Mar 28, 9:47 pm, "mgg" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Mar 28, 12:53 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
Right now we are in a place that I call "Paradise Found", which is
more commonly known as "The Marina at Marigot Bay" in St Lucia. We
are dock neighbors with a 122 ft Feadship called "Our Toy" among other
nice boats. Everyone is "Med moored", stern-to-the-dock, which is
common down here. In our case we either rig a plank off the stern or
back in close enough to make the big step. That would not do on a
mega yacht of course so they all have these fancy hide-away gang
planks called a Passarelle allowing them to walk off the stern in
style.

http://www.cooneymarine.com/frames.p...sserelles.html

Last night I was sitting on the flybridge before dinner when a good
looking blonde appeared on the deck of the Feadship, strolled to the
stern of the boat, lifted up a recessed panel, pushed a button, and
the Passarelle magically lifted itself high into the air, like raising
the drawbridge over a castle moat. Very cool indeed. The rich are
in fact just like us but they do have more money and more toys.

http://marigotbay.com/themarina/

Here's what's next to you, Wayne.

http://www.yachttrails.com/yachtspec...toy--1483.html

10.5 thousand gallons of fuel... holy crap. 40-50 grand just to "fill her
up." How does a boat like that get fueled? Off shore by a tanker?? lol

--Mike- Hide quoted text -

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I was watching a deal on the Queen Elizebeth II and they were fueling
the thing up.

There was a massive and I do me MASSIVE hose craned over to it, and
people were watching the meter on the pump as it clicked off like you
would a the older gas pumps with the numbers rolling away and at a
pretty good clip. 146...147...148... etc.

The the commentator said. "Those arn't gallons, those are tons..."



Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.

On Mar 29, 10:37*am, "Bill McKee" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Mar 28, 9:47 pm, "mgg" wrote:





"Tim" wrote in message

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On Mar 28, 12:53 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
Right now we are in a place that I call "Paradise Found", which is
more commonly known as "The Marina at Marigot Bay" in St Lucia. We
are dock neighbors with a 122 ft Feadship called "Our Toy" among other
nice boats. Everyone is "Med moored", stern-to-the-dock, which is
common down here. In our case we either rig a plank off the stern or
back in close enough to make the big step. That would not do on a
mega yacht of course so they all have these fancy hide-away gang
planks called a Passarelle allowing them to walk off the stern in
style.

http://www.cooneymarine.com/frames.p...sserelles.html

Last night I was sitting on the flybridge before dinner when a good
looking blonde appeared on the deck of the Feadship, strolled to the
stern of the boat, lifted up a recessed panel, pushed a button, and
the Passarelle magically lifted itself high into the air, like raising
the drawbridge over a castle moat. Very cool indeed. The rich are
in fact just like us but they do have more money and more toys.

http://marigotbay.com/themarina/

Here's what's next to you, Wayne.

http://www.yachttrails.com/yachtspec...toy--1483.html

10.5 thousand gallons of fuel... holy crap. 40-50 grand just to "fill her
up." How does a boat like that get fueled? Off shore by a tanker?? lol

--Mike- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I was watching a deal on the Queen Elizebeth II and they were fueling
the thing up.

There was a massive and I do me MASSIVE hose craned over to it, and
people were watching the meter on the pump as it clicked off like you
would a the older gas pumps with the numbers rolling away and at a
pretty good clip. 146...147...148... etc.

The the commentator said. "Those arn't gallons, those are tons..."

Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Which probably translates out to be about a gallon per piston stroke.
Maybe more!

On 3/29/10 12:47 PM, Tim wrote:
On Mar 29, 10:37 am, "Bill wrote:
wrote in message

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On Mar 28, 9:47 pm, wrote:





wrote in message

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On Mar 28, 12:53 pm, wrote:
Right now we are in a place that I call "Paradise Found", which is
more commonly known as "The Marina at Marigot Bay" in St Lucia. We
are dock neighbors with a 122 ft Feadship called "Our Toy" among other
nice boats. Everyone is "Med moored", stern-to-the-dock, which is
common down here. In our case we either rig a plank off the stern or
back in close enough to make the big step. That would not do on a
mega yacht of course so they all have these fancy hide-away gang
planks called a Passarelle allowing them to walk off the stern in
style.

http://www.cooneymarine.com/frames.p...sserelles.html

Last night I was sitting on the flybridge before dinner when a good
looking blonde appeared on the deck of the Feadship, strolled to the
stern of the boat, lifted up a recessed panel, pushed a button, and
the Passarelle magically lifted itself high into the air, like raising
the drawbridge over a castle moat. Very cool indeed. The rich are
in fact just like us but they do have more money and more toys.

http://marigotbay.com/themarina/

Here's what's next to you, Wayne.

http://www.yachttrails.com/yachtspec...toy--1483.html

10.5 thousand gallons of fuel... holy crap. 40-50 grand just to "fill her
up." How does a boat like that get fueled? Off shore by a tanker??lol

--Mike- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I was watching a deal on the Queen Elizebeth II and they were fueling
the thing up.

There was a massive and I do me MASSIVE hose craned over to it, and
people were watching the meter on the pump as it clicked off like you
would a the older gas pumps with the numbers rolling away and at a
pretty good clip. 146...147...148... etc.

The the commentator said. "Those arn't gallons, those are tons..."

Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Which probably translates out to be about a gallon per piston stroke.
Maybe more!


The Queen Mary II, the QE II's newer sistership, burns fuel as follows:


- Diesel Engines – 3.1 tonnes/hour each of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) at 100% Load
- Gas Turbines – 6.0 tonnes/hour each of Marine Gas Oil (MGO) at 100% Load

Daily consumption at a speed of 29 knots, depending on the sea state and
wind, is approx 261 tonnes of HFO for the diesel engines and 237 tonnes
of MGO for the gas turbines.


Fuel tank capacities

HFO – 5,348.7 m3 or 1,412,977 US gallons MGO – 3,658.8 m3 or 966,553 US
gallons


Probably not done at the self-service pump island...

Tim wrote:
On Mar 29, 9:06 am, Gordon wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:

http://www.discoverystlucia.com/photogallery.asp
Now is the time to buy one of these suckers. Westport builds them to
164 foot (onyx floors and elevators) and they finish them here in the
Port Angeles marina. There hasn't been one in here now for quite some
time and Westport is biting the bullet.
Westport did have a big Fountain cigarette type boat in here for
testing the other day. Triple turbo Cummins with some sort of jet drive.
Word is they are working on something for the military.
Gordon

Gordon, you didn't put a link in there....

http://www.westportyachts.com/

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Which probably translates out to be about a gallon per piston stroke.
Maybe more!

Fairly easy to figure out: At 20 knots they are doing approximately
6000 x 12 = 72,000 inches/hour. If they are burning 1,000 gallons per
hour which I believe is in the ballpark, that would be 7.2 inch/gal
which jibes pretty closely with the 6 in/gal stated previously.

What we don't know is what RPM the engines are turning at, the number
of pistons, and whether they are 2 cycle or 4 cycle - all of which
would impact fuel per power stroke. Just for grins, let's estimate
720 RPM, 10 pistons and a 2 stroke engine. That's 12 RPS x 10
powerstrokes per rev = 120 PowerStrokes/sec. Fuel burn at 1,000 gph
is less that 1/3 gal/sec so the amount of fuel per power stroke is
actually not all that high, maybe about 1/4 ounce per stroke.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:46:56 -0400, wrote:

Someone I know has a boat that holds 18,000 gallons. They probably
never run them down to "nothing", but to fuel up, a tanker truck or
two comes to their dock in Old Saybrook, CT. I think a tanker truck
only holds about 5 - 8,000 gallons.

We have a fuel truck service that comes to our house in Florida so I
have gotten to know the guys who run the operation. The largest
tanker trucks on the road hold about 9,000 gallons but due to local
weight limits they frequently run lighter with about 8,000.

On Mar 29, 2:07*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Which probably translates out to be about a gallon per piston stroke.
Maybe more!

Fairly easy to figure out: *At 20 knots they are doing approximately
6000 x 12 = 72,000 inches/hour. *If they are burning 1,000 gallons per
hour which I believe is in the ballpark, that would be 7.2 inch/gal
which jibes pretty closely with the 6 in/gal stated previously.

What we don't know is what RPM the engines are turning at, the number
of pistons, and whether they are 2 cycle or 4 cycle - all of which
would impact fuel per power stroke. *Just for grins, let's estimate
720 RPM, 10 pistons and a 2 stroke engine. *That's 12 RPS x 10
powerstrokes per rev = 120 PowerStrokes/sec. *Fuel burn at 1,000 gph
is less that 1/3 gal/sec so the amount of fuel per power stroke is
actually not all that high, maybe about 1/4 ounce per stroke. *

Wayne, I found some specs. Scroll down to the FAQ's.

It's pretty interesting.

9- 9cyl. 4- stroke engines at 400 RPM running on Baker's fuel. No
wonder it's rated in tons.

http://www.qe2.org.uk/engine.html

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:24:25 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Mar 29, 2:07*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Reply:
I read somewhere that the QE2 gets 6" per gallon.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Which probably translates out to be about a gallon per piston stroke.
Maybe more!

Fairly easy to figure out: *At 20 knots they are doing approximately
6000 x 12 = 72,000 inches/hour. *If they are burning 1,000 gallons per
hour which I believe is in the ballpark, that would be 7.2 inch/gal
which jibes pretty closely with the 6 in/gal stated previously.

What we don't know is what RPM the engines are turning at, the number
of pistons, and whether they are 2 cycle or 4 cycle - all of which
would impact fuel per power stroke. *Just for grins, let's estimate
720 RPM, 10 pistons and a 2 stroke engine. *That's 12 RPS x 10
powerstrokes per rev = 120 PowerStrokes/sec. *Fuel burn at 1,000 gph
is less that 1/3 gal/sec so the amount of fuel per power stroke is
actually not all that high, maybe about 1/4 ounce per stroke. *

Wayne, I found some specs. Scroll down to the FAQ's.

It's pretty interesting.

9- 9cyl. 4- stroke engines at 400 RPM running on Baker's fuel. No
wonder it's rated in tons.

http://www.qe2.org.uk/engine.html

Interesting, thanks.

Note that by using a diesel-electric propulsion system, they have
cleverly eliminated the need for alternators and generators...

:-)