Geoff Schultz wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote in
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When I read your last post to Bob, we were both taken aback by the
fuel usage - our boat which I think is a similar size to yours uses
only about 1 g/h

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grandma Rosalie


He said that he uses ".8" (0.8) GPH. Methinks you missed the period.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

Oops

You are right. It did not occur to me that anyone would write eight
tenths without putting the zero in front as you did (0.8) to alert the
reader that it wasn't 8.0. The dot is so tiny that it is easy to
miss. And that's about the fuel usage that we get depending on how
much current or wind we are bucking. We use the 1.0 gph as a ballpark
figure to estimate how much we will need and when we need to get it
again.

I also wanted to say that 50 miles a day is good progress in the ICW.
I try not to schedule that much. When we go south, we try to stop by
2 or 3 pm because otherwise (since we are usually going south in
November) the sun is in our eyes. That's something to remember for
next fall.