Independence Fuel Usage Sweepstake

[grendel]

is Brooms tank big enough? still it will mean nice fresh fuel for all the boaters this year 

[ranworthbreeze]

1 minute ago, grendel said:

is Brooms tank big enough? still it will mean nice fresh fuel for all the boaters this year 

I think you would be surprised at the amount some of the boats usings the Brooms fuel station take on board. Let's face it there is not really an alternative option for fuel around Brundall.

Regards

Alan

[ZimbiIV]

Thinking about it, Robin probably won't want all that fuel laying aboard, so we will have to take a guestimate of the last legs usage.

paul

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure brooms will have enough after all were not talking about the queen Mary there are plenty of boats that size in brundall some even bigger too 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, ZimbiIV said:

Thinking about it, Robin probably won't want all that fuel laying aboard, so we will have to take a guestimate of the last legs usage.

paul

A guess ? How accurate will that be.  Prizes are at stake here to say nothing of reputations .

Besides its good practice to have the tanks full .

[BroadAmbition]

The final fuel up will be at Goodchilds. We planned that way from the word go. So the final count up will be the same for all  

This mornings fill up was the biggest yet but yesterday we was running at 2400rpm. No chance of that at present.

Griff

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, BroadAmbition said:

The final fuel up will be at Goodchilds. We planned that way from the word go. So the final count up will be the same for all  

This mornings fill up was the biggest yet but yesterday we was running at 2400rpm. No chance of that at present.

Griff

And to think I factored in the mileage from Yarmouth to brundall in my guess Siddy is holding onto 

[BrundallNavy]

Is it too late to guess 5000 ltrs. 

[grendel]

Yes, especially as you will be crewing on the last leg, so will probably adjust the revs to get as near that as possible  

[TheQ]

Having looked at the photos of her ploughing through the waves, I think many of us are going to be way too low on our fuel estimates...

[grendel]

they had throttled back to about 1600 rpm for that section, so were probably using less that you estimated. Having said that somebody has opened her up as she is just off Lowestoft and racing along at 14.5 knots at the moment

[finny]

6 hours ago, TheQ said:

Having looked at the photos of her ploughing through the waves, I think many of us are going to be way too low on our fuel estimates...

Agreed I only had one bottle in hand ( 1664 ) I now wish it was in one in each hand 

finny 

[LizG]

Well WR uses about 8 litres (I think) to get from Horning to Beccles so ....... I will think about this in the morning!!! Might as well have a go if it isn't too late?

[quo vadis]

28 minutes ago, w-album said:

Well WR uses about 8 litres (I think) to get from Horning to Beccles so ....... I will think about this in the morning!!! Might as well have a go if it isn't too late?

Sounds about right Liz 

[LizG]

Here's my late entry = 1580 litres!

Liz

[BroadAmbition]

Ok then,

I'll post this up on Robins behalf as he is somewhat busy at present.

Sailed from Plymouth on Friday morning the 02nd Feb with brimmed tanks - 2405 x Ltrs

Friday evening at Ramsgate - Took onboard 839 x Ltrs

Sunday morning at Brighton - Took onboard 947 x Ltrs

Monday afternoon at Brooms - Took onboard 1123 x Ltrs

Grand total =  2909 Litres

That for 2 x main engines at 500hp each and the 50hp generator (Which was not running 24/7, used shore power when alongside)

Griff

Edited February 6, 2018 by grendel
edited at Griffs request to correct the figures

[Hockham Admiral]

WOW!      

[Islander]

Think I'll stick to my old 2.5BMC.  

I was way off, probably only got to Dover with my estimate.

Colin

[Meantime]

33 minutes ago, Hockham Admiral said:

WOW!      

WOW indeed! I think Griff said somewhere the journey was 320 nautical miles? If so then very roughly 10 litres per mile. Don't suppose a lift out, transport by road and lift back in would have been much cheaper, and a lot less fun for the crew and the rest of us.

[NeilB]

I thought it would be around that, my guess was 3,300.  I may have spent few minutes studying the engine spec sheets and passage plan though !  Still didn't win though.

[neilp1962]

3000 odd litres !!!!! I know you've come a long way but 3000 odd litres

Holy flippin moly, I shudder if I don't get anything back from my £100 fuel deposit

[TostockTimonier]

OUCH £££££

[LizG]

I wish I had stuck with my earlier calculation this morning based on WRs consumption = 8 litres for 30 river miles multiplying it by 4 because Indy is bigger x 325 nautical miles which I thought was about the distance came to 3160 litres!

At least Robin won't have to fill up too much from now on!

[Bedslad]

Wow, mind you if they hadn't had to fight currants and tide I think my 1623 would've been near enough right....................or not

[deebee29]

Hmm so no fuel deposit money back this time then 

Thanks for keeping us all informed, It really feels like we’ve been part of the adventure