T&T: $100 + a barrel!

[Bill Allen]

Of course on of other side of the coin is he will be left with no options. 
His boat will only sell if he takes a major beatting. So in all likelly hood 
he'll either bite the bullet and pay or stay home. Of course the same thing 
will hit many people even the folks with single screw trawlers. Although the 
fuel costs will be less for them, but I wonder if it will be enough to allow 
them the option of travel. As far as british cars go there was a whole lot 
more then just fuel that killed them. When enough people cut back on the 
fuel the price will go back down, not ever to what it was but it will go 
back. I really wonder how many people actually get thet much more then two 
miles to the gallon as a percentage I don't think there's that many boats 
that do that much better. Like my hatt, and a lot of the T.T. trawlers they 
have hard chines and I suspect that many times fuel consumption is erred to 
the good side. Fuel despite being so very expensive for the boat is just one 
of the costs. So like I said you take a twenty or thirty grand bounding 
selling your boat to get a more fuel efficent boat or do you just take the 
costs in stride and rather then dump the boat write off the fuel cost to the 
loss you would have suffered selling the boat. I say slow down to 6kts. plan 
the trip the best you can, buy fuel at the best place and buy a very big 
crying towel. Bill
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: T&T: $100 + a barrel!


> Doom and gloom, doom and gloom. Are powerful trawlers likely to follow the
> dinosaurs into extinction?