GL: Hypertrawlering

[Charles Culotta]

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:31:57 EDT
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>> So is Hypertrawlering doable?
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> It's very doable. Here are a few hints:
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> 1. Power requirements and fuel costs rise as the cube of boat speed. Slowing 
> down a couple of knots below hull speed can cut your fuel costs in half.

> Larry Z
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As most of you know I only post from actual experience.
All last season we cruised at 1300 rpm. I had planned to cruise at my 
normal 1500 but hit a sinker log in Vermont and bent a wheel and shaft. 
Reducing rpm to 1300 gave me NO vibration. At the end of the season we 
had covered 1,487 miles and sustained a fuel usage of 2.2 gph AVERAGE ( 
total for both engines and the gen set) for the entire period. Our 
cruising speed was only slightly slower than " normal" as we  generally 
were making about 7.5 MPH. Been doing the same this year.  My Perkins 
6.354's NA's use .85 gph per hundred rpm in this range so for each 100 
rpm I reduce my fuel usage by that amount and lose right at  one half 
mph per hundred rpm.
The gen set was used only sparingly so it was not really a factor.

CCC
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