On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:09:30 -0500, hkrause wrote:
I always smile when someone in a gold-plate trawler tells me how much
money he is saving by going slow. "Why, yes...my $1,000,000 Grand Banks
only burns 1.7 gallons of diesel an hour...it's really cheap to operate."

But I am sure it is fun.

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Our excuse was that my wife wanted a boat big enough for kids and
grand kids. Of course the brokers after hearing that would want to
know how many grandchildren we had. The answer is zero but she wants
to be prepared just in case. Very few if any of the Grand Banks are
suited to offshore passage making even though the fuel range might be
adequate. They are great boats for extended coastal cruising however
which is the way we will use ours, until the grandchildren arrive of
course.

Our GB49 with twin DD671s burns from 5 gph to 20 gph depending on how
fast you run it. Fast is a relative term of course but even at fuel
sipping speed it's faster than any sailboat we ever owned, and a whole
lot more economical than feeding a pair of 454 gas engines.