This morning was spent finishing up cleaning the stainless, then touching up the varnish where the alligators resided (looks pretty good, btw) and waxing the cabin top. Lots of not fun, but necessary work! Luckily the humidity is way down, making it easier.
In the meantime, at the charter company across from the docks, a Grand Banks trawler pulls in to the dock. Hmmm... we thought they just chartered sailboats. We've been toying with the idea of chartering a Grand Banks sometime just to see how the dark side lives, so we walked over to see & got a tour.
Nice! Returning to Winterlude, we calculated for this winter's Keys cruise (the shortest ever), we used $275 of diesel. On a GB 36 (twin Lehman 135 hp diesels) the fuel mileage is estimated online at anywhere from 3 gph to 6 gph -- so our same trip in the Grand Banks trawler would have been over $2,000 in diesel! YIKES!
Reality check. I need my $25 million before considering a trawler!
And the 135 hp Lehman diesels are probably among the most fuel efficient ...
Makes David happy -- he's even waxing more of the cabin top ... I thought we were going to the pool. :)
In the meantime, at the charter company across from the docks, a Grand Banks trawler pulls in to the dock. Hmmm... we thought they just chartered sailboats. We've been toying with the idea of chartering a Grand Banks sometime just to see how the dark side lives, so we walked over to see & got a tour.
Nice! Returning to Winterlude, we calculated for this winter's Keys cruise (the shortest ever), we used $275 of diesel. On a GB 36 (twin Lehman 135 hp diesels) the fuel mileage is estimated online at anywhere from 3 gph to 6 gph -- so our same trip in the Grand Banks trawler would have been over $2,000 in diesel! YIKES!
Reality check. I need my $25 million before considering a trawler!
And the 135 hp Lehman diesels are probably among the most fuel efficient ...
Makes David happy -- he's even waxing more of the cabin top ... I thought we were going to the pool. :)
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