On 25 Jun 2008 09:21:02 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:56:11 -0400, Wayne.B
said:

That's an oxymoron. There are *no* well-found blue water sailboats
with outboard engines.

Neal has a well-known propensity for trying to make a virtue of necessity.

I guess. It is certainly interesting in a weird sort of way watching
him talk to himself in these contrived discussions. Knowing better of
course, I could still not let the "blue water outboard" pass without
comment.

Having a nice little 4 stroke Honda of my own for the dinghy, and a
couple of 6 gallon tanks, I know something of the fuel range of such
animals. Figure about 1 gph if you are lucky, at maybe 6 knots on a
small light sailboat, times 12 gallons for typical tankage, I get a
fuel range of 72 miles. Just the ticket for a nice blue water
crossing to Bermuda, the Exuma Out Islands, the BVI, etc. Let's hope
for favorable winds and lots of time for the crossings.

What nonsense.

Even with proper diesel inboard aux, most of the serious cruising
sailboats that we see are carrying 40 to 60 gallons of extra fuel on
deck. These are boats that actually go someplace of course.