Diesel / Gas prices got you down?
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scross
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Even at $6 a gallon for diesel, fuel is not a big part of our total cruising costs. We use about 250 gallons a season - putting 80 hours on the engine. That’s under $40 a day. Normally (2015 to 2020) we average $20 to $25 a day for diesel when cruising. This year’s fuel costs will be higher but will not change our choice of cruising destinations or of still getting in 40 nights on the boat this season. Perhaps we might spend a few more nights on a mooring buoy or on the hook instead of at full service marinas.
A bigger chunk of $$ will be in towing our boat from Southern Oregon to Bellingham at the start and end of the cruising season. I’m budgeting $400 each way. Ouch!
PS: Right now I’m more worried about when temps in the 60’s and 70’s will start. What happened to normal late spring cruising weather??
A bigger chunk of $$ will be in towing our boat from Southern Oregon to Bellingham at the start and end of the cruising season. I’m budgeting $400 each way. Ouch!
PS: Right now I’m more worried about when temps in the 60’s and 70’s will start. What happened to normal late spring cruising weather??
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The border's open. I'm planning on burning more fuel than last year.
The price won't change our plans, although we may go slower to get more mpg. However, the reason the price of diesel has increased over gasoline is due to shortages. Not being able to get it on the water will change our plans.
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We might travel a little slower to save some fuel, but its a boat, its expensive, its fun!
We're finally hitting Desolation Sound this summer. Calculated out about 400-450 gallons of diesel for that trip.
I need to set up a GoFundMe page 🙂
We're finally hitting Desolation Sound this summer. Calculated out about 400-450 gallons of diesel for that trip.
I need to set up a GoFundMe page 🙂
Brian98133
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It won't change any plans for us... but we're just SUPER happy to have our RT that sips gas, as opposed to our last cruiser that gulped 25+ GPH 😱
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Our cruising plans are not going to change. We have three weekend cruises all under 40 miles round trip and a week cruise that will be about 350 miles round trip.
We may make less of our leave the river and run WOT 10 miles north into the lake Saturday or Sunday trips. We enjoy the seclusion of middle of the lake can't see land trips.
We may make less of our leave the river and run WOT 10 miles north into the lake Saturday or Sunday trips. We enjoy the seclusion of middle of the lake can't see land trips.
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Agreed with everything above!
My detail alone this year will dwarf our fuel expenses. Add in all my engine/genset annual maintenance I do myself, my random costs for bilge pumps, ensigns, teak these and that’s, my wife’s current obsession with the container store, and every other random thing the boat needs, it is truly inconsequential. I did realize though the other day that 6.8knts @ 1.7 GPH vs 7.7knts at 3.3 GPH was the way to go at slow cruising speed. However on a plane will be 13 GPH +/- 1 regardless of 12knts or 19knts.
My detail alone this year will dwarf our fuel expenses. Add in all my engine/genset annual maintenance I do myself, my random costs for bilge pumps, ensigns, teak these and that’s, my wife’s current obsession with the container store, and every other random thing the boat needs, it is truly inconsequential. I did realize though the other day that 6.8knts @ 1.7 GPH vs 7.7knts at 3.3 GPH was the way to go at slow cruising speed. However on a plane will be 13 GPH +/- 1 regardless of 12knts or 19knts.
Some of us experienced the 1973/1974 OPEC oil embargo and the critical shortage of fuel that caused so many power boaters to swap out to sail boats and sell our performance cars for peanuts just to get an "economy car" just so we could scrounge enough gas to get to work. Oil was $3.00 (yep...3 bucks) a barrel and jumped to $12.00 a barrel. I actually paid $5.00 a gallon in Chicago for black market gas just to make a commute for a while.
Each boating season now seems more important so the fuel cost will not limit time on the water for me.
Each boating season now seems more important so the fuel cost will not limit time on the water for me.