You must take into account of the extra mass of the fuel, besides the fact
that it just screwes up your take-off speed. I have always been a sailboat
person myself so I dont have to worry about that. Besides that is that I
wouldnt trust a powerboat, its not as sea worthy as a sailboat, all it takes
is one wave to come up your tail, flood your engines and youre screwed. So
whatever you do, take a very good mechanic, a SSB and make sure everything
is working since putting in so many constant hours into an engine may have
bad effects.

Sebas

"twoguns" wrote in message
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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?