Good memories there, thanks. Those were the days when you could
actually learn something about boating on rec.boats
Hey Harry schooled us all on long range trawlers. ;-)
Silly me, I thought cruising up the entire coast of the US and looping
around the maritimes in Canada was long range but I seldom get past
Big Carlos Pass.
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Interestingly enough you can easily cruise the east coast in a
non-long range boat. We see it all the time where a boat will zoom by
us doing 20+ knots and then we pass them later on in the day while
they are tied to a fuel dock.
Yabut, you don't do it on a 20 knot boat on a single fill up of diesel.
I had to fuel the Navigator just about every day. The Grand Banks could
make it from MA to Florida (or close) on a single tank full.