bigfish3
07-30-2008, 01:40 PM
Folks not sure if this belongs here or under the DLX heading but here goes...
Last Friday I played a little hooky at my daughters request. She wanted a little daddy daughter time.
We loaded up the boat, topped off the tanks and filled the cooler wth Water, Soda, Sea Soda and ice. Also enough food to feed a small army.
I ran to the ramp and launched the boat, there were 3 adults onboards as well as the aforementioned supplies.
I ran from Milford Harbor to Port Jefferson, all the way up into conscience bay way past where it gets wide. We ran from there back to one of the dunes where we stopped for a swim and some lunch. At this point after Lunch she told me that she wanted to run back to Milford to check the pilings on the falling tide, I had to agree after all it was her day.
On the way to PJ I ran the boat between 20-22 knots, on the way home the tide changed and it layed down a bit so I ran at 28-30 knots.
I had passed the Straftord Shoal Middle ground and was about 5 miles from Charles Island on the Connecticut side before I had to change the first 6 gallon tank!
This equates to soemthing like 23-24 miles on 6 gallons of gasoline!!
This was the right year to rig this boat!
I carry 2 six gallon tanks and a 9 gallon tank for a total of 21 gallons. I think I may leave one tank at home in the future...
Cheers,
Butch
Last Friday I played a little hooky at my daughters request. She wanted a little daddy daughter time.
We loaded up the boat, topped off the tanks and filled the cooler wth Water, Soda, Sea Soda and ice. Also enough food to feed a small army.
I ran to the ramp and launched the boat, there were 3 adults onboards as well as the aforementioned supplies.
I ran from Milford Harbor to Port Jefferson, all the way up into conscience bay way past where it gets wide. We ran from there back to one of the dunes where we stopped for a swim and some lunch. At this point after Lunch she told me that she wanted to run back to Milford to check the pilings on the falling tide, I had to agree after all it was her day.
On the way to PJ I ran the boat between 20-22 knots, on the way home the tide changed and it layed down a bit so I ran at 28-30 knots.
I had passed the Straftord Shoal Middle ground and was about 5 miles from Charles Island on the Connecticut side before I had to change the first 6 gallon tank!
This equates to soemthing like 23-24 miles on 6 gallons of gasoline!!
This was the right year to rig this boat!
I carry 2 six gallon tanks and a 9 gallon tank for a total of 21 gallons. I think I may leave one tank at home in the future...
Cheers,
Butch