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Wifey B: A dozen quarts of milk? For what? What do you use so much milk for?
We're British.
'nuff said?
Plus cereal for breakfast.
Wifey B: A dozen quarts of milk? For what? What do you use so much milk for?
We're British.
'nuff said?
Plus cereal for breakfast.
Awesome trip. That was some serious scheduling having all the friends flying in, with all the windy weather.
I'm going to try to go from Lake Worth the the Abacos in July for a short 2-3 week trip.
Wifey B: Sian was right. She'd had enough for one trip but it's what you didn't get to do this trip that makes the next one so exciting. Next trip, Abacos. I think the perfect time to leave is when there's still more to see but you feel like home would be nice too. It's before the trip gets too long. Then you go home and before long you're planning the next one.
Awesome trip. That was some serious scheduling having all the friends flying in, with all the windy weather.
I'm going to try to go from Lake Worth the the Abacos in July for a short 2-3 week trip.
Why not top up the fuel tanks!
I never keep a log, I don't want to know how much the trip costs.
I know, but....... we also said that we knew after being at home for a couple of weeks we would be looking at each other and saying "why are we here!"
In fact it didn't last that long. Once we hit the brown waters of the ICW Sian said "I want to go back to the blue water!"
Next time, if there is one in the Exumas, we have them fly to Staniel so we can stay on the bank and not have to exit to the sound. Lesson learned.
I have three tanks, 425X2 and 150X1
They are managed by sight glasses by the tanks and a finger pump tank watch gauge in the PH. The sight glasses, because of the valve design and placement, will never show you the top of the tank, and the PH gauge, based on an inches reading driven by a small pressure pump, isn't accurate enough.
So the only way to really top them up is to keep filling until fuel comes out of the vent - and that's not the best idea!
So I fill to just above the sight glasses. Which I estimate leave me about 100 to 150 short of full across all of the tanks.
Additionally I fill the smaller forward tank, shut it off and not use it. That is my back up should I get bad fuel in the islands. Well managed that would get me 150-200 miles to somewhere I could get the issue fixed. I transferred that into the two other tanks after getting back to Florida so as not to let it get old.
Going over short 150 gallons of fuel makes no sense.
And a properly calibrated Tank Tender should be accurate.
If you can't tell when the tanks are full by listening to the vents, next time you fill, have some one watch the sight gauges. Have them tell you exactly when the tubes appear full and they can no longer see air space in them. From that point fill slowly and keep track of the amount of fuel you put in till the tank just vents. Catch the overflow with an oil sorb.
From then on you'll know how much fuel it take to top off the tanks after the sight gauge is full and you can fill up to 95% or so without over filling.
Filling up with an extra 100+ gallons of fuel before crossing over can save you $200-$300. Which could go towards more milk and wine.
Got all that but, really, just how much do I want to micromanage fuel to that level?
And that's just 8 or 9 bottles of semi decent wine over there!
Just like the fuel, you buy the extra wine before you go.
We already had nine cases on board - where do you think I am going to put any more where is doesn't boil!
I once inventory a boat that had 1500 bottles of wine on board.
Plus I I've taken 50+ cases of beer over to the Bahamas on my own boat at a time.
You just need to work on your alcohol storage management.
WifeyB
Really. I would have thought the numbers were reversed. LOL