One other consideration: In my experience, it's a
lot more meaningful
and useful to work with gallons per hour (gph)
rather than miles per
gallon (mpg).
I seem to recall that when Dave Katz, then-owner of an
early Diesel Duck 44 with a Deere 4045 (I think),
delivered his boat from Zhuhai China to the US via Oz
(15,000 nms total), he was more concerned at
maintaining 2 gph than a specific speed. He averaged
around 6 knots.
As an aside, despite having an engineering background,
Dave is a distinctly low-tech guy: his helm chair was
a reclining Barco-lounger (apt name, for those who
speak Spanish), and he did much of the trip with
simple planning charts cut from National Geographic as
I recall, and only went to a basic version of
electronic charting somewhere in the South Pacific
where he met another cruiser who preached the gospel
of bits/bytes.
Peter
www.SeaSkills.com
> One other consideration: In my experience, it's a
> lot more meaningful
> and useful to work with gallons per hour (gph)
> rather than miles per
> gallon (mpg).
I seem to recall that when Dave Katz, then-owner of an
early Diesel Duck 44 with a Deere 4045 (I think),
delivered his boat from Zhuhai China to the US via Oz
(15,000 nms total), he was more concerned at
maintaining 2 gph than a specific speed. He averaged
around 6 knots.
As an aside, despite having an engineering background,
Dave is a distinctly low-tech guy: his helm chair was
a reclining Barco-lounger (apt name, for those who
speak Spanish), and he did much of the trip with
simple planning charts cut from National Geographic as
I recall, and only went to a basic version of
electronic charting somewhere in the South Pacific
where he met another cruiser who preached the gospel
of bits/bytes.
Peter
www.SeaSkills.com
