First Fueling of the year

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

After five long days coming up river today was a rest and work day. We spent the day giving the boat a complete cleaning inside and out. Then after lunch we pulled in the electrical connection and motored over to the fuel dock.

As many of you now I am very concerned with fuel mileage, we bought this boat in hopes of good fuel economy. We have put 281 miles on this tank, all up river against a strong current, probably 2 mph average. We took 132.3 gallons, allowing a couple of gallons for 5 hours on the generator that is just less than 2.2 mpg. That is not near what we would like but with but with the strong current and several hours of run much higher rpms then best fuel economy it is very acceptable.

We took it easy the rest of the afternoon, went for a walk around the rest of the marina (there is a back harbor we can’t see from the boat), then after showers we walked up to a very nice restaurant on the marina grounds. They had a special promotion going with a radio station; it was more successful than they anticipated. The service was a little slow but the food was good and the atmosphere was nice and we had no place to go but back to the boat to crash.