The season is over for us, the boat is at Polestar Marina, where Bloch Marine service will winterize it, haul it out, shrink wrap it and repair the prop damage. (Hopefully it is only a prop and not something more.) We do not plan to be aboard again until May.
Looking back we spent a total of about 14 weeks aboard the boat. Seven weeks in May – June and another seven September – October. In general the weather was great, we had only two storms and we were securely tied up for both of then. Almost all the rain we saw was at night. We had a high proportion of the days with at least some sun and generally light winds. Both Diana and I agree that it was a great summer. We saw a lot of beautiful scenery, saw many interesting places and meet many wonderful people.
The fuel and mileage log shows that we did 2184 miles, went thru 24 locks (including over two that the wickets were down), burned 736 gallons of diesel, put 327 hours on the engines and ran the generator for 44 hours. Allowing ½ gallon per hour for the generator this gives us a total season of 3.06 miles per gallon. This is the type of fuel efficiency we were looking for when we bought this boat. Many boat this size are in the one MPG. The count of pictures taken is still being tallied, I am glad they are digital and I don’t have to pay for film processing.
I did not get a chance to do a fuel report on the last fill. From GTB to St Charles we took on 120 gallons at Hoppies then need 70 more to fill at St Charles. The distance traveled was 296 miles and five hour on the generator. This works out to 1.57 MPG. Included is 220 miles up the Mississippi against a current of 3.5 to 5 miles per hour for much of the way and 30 hours of running hard, (2500 to 2700 rpm), to fight the current which is way above the normal cruise of 2000 rpm that would have produced better mileage.
This is the last planned posting for the season. The next will be about May first as we get ready to start next summer’s planed trip up the Illinois and up to the Canadian canals.
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2 comments:
Thanks for the Summary. Both Loren and I enjoyed reading it.
We'll look forward to being with
you next year in May or June if that works out.
Aloha,
Jan and Loren
10-30-08
Sad that your boat almost gets better MPG than my first car did at times! (only after the o2 sensors were broken for a while)
John
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