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(TAWill s/v Lucky Strike)
Date: 9/7/2004 11:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: Jere Lull answers this question quite well from a cruising sailor's viewpoint. My experience in offshore cruising sailboats 37 to 42 feet in length yields fuel consumption of about 0.4 gallons per hour at cruise. T A Will In article , (JAXAshby) wrote: 0.4 gallons of diesel fuel used per hours equals of about 6.4 hp. but who's counting. Your point being what? We cruise comfortably at 5-7 hp. We can go a full knot and a half (about 20%) faster when we want to, but at 4 times the burn. Not worth it to us most of the time. Cruising is very different than storming around at full power for an afternoon. Hell, we don't fire up until our VMG is under about 2 knots unless we feel like it. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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