Steve Dubnoff of Nereid wrote: >The Dashews just published their fuel consumption figures for their >trip to Alaska. At an average speed 11.3 knots, fuel consumption was >1.76 nautical gallons per mile. I think it is clear that for >efficiency anyway, long and skinney is the way to go.... But you don't need to spend nearly $2-million and build such an overly long boat . . . as illustrated by Ben Gray with Idlewild: Nonstop from South Africa to Australia at 1.39 gallons per nautical mile. http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/idlewildnonstop.html --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997