A long cruise - Spain - France - Corsica - loads of photos

[Wavey]

This is worth a read too

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174931

 

[John100156]

Its a Princess 67 ( and bl**dy enormous it is too! )

Here she is up close and personal, more often than not crewed by just two, Mike and his well trained crew Mary (She's gonna kill me for saying that!). A beautiful boat indeed:

 

[z1ppy]

Here she is up close and personal, more often than not crewed by just two, Mike and his well trained crew Mary (She's gonna kill me for saying that!). A beautiful boat indeed:

lovely boat and a great read. P67 holds a very soft spot in my heart! crewing with just two is some achievement on a boat that size! guess plenty of practice and communication is the key!

 

[jfm]

Great photo John 100156

 

[jfm]

This is worth a read too

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174931

It was good to read Hurricane's p67 med delivery trip again - great adventure

Hurricane you wrote that after the biscay crossing you took on 3577 litres of fuel. The brochure stats on princess 67 say the capacity is 3400 ish. Were you right down to empty on the gauges? Must have been a bit apprehensive during the last 25nm...

 

[rafiki_]

It was good to read Hurricane's p67 med delivery trip again - great adventure

Hurricane you wrote that after the biscay crossing you took on 3577 litres of fuel. The brochure stats on princess 67 say the capacity is 3400 ish. Were you right down to empty on the gauges? Must have been a bit apprehensive during the last 25nm...

Has Hurricane managed to persuade Princess to fit the additional tank

 

[jfm]

Has Hurricane managed to persuade Princess to fit the additional tank

Also it makes you question the fuel pump calibration. Easy way to make money? We all kinda have to trust these things but wouldn't know if there was a +5% scam going on.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

It was good to read Hurricane's p67 med delivery trip again - great adventure

Hurricane you wrote that after the biscay crossing you took on 3577 litres of fuel. The brochure stats on princess 67 say the capacity is 3400 ish. Were you right down to empty on the gauges? Must have been a bit apprehensive during the last 25nm...

P67 2008 model year has tank capacity of 4090 litres.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Hurricane]

Just picked this up.

Yep - Jimmy is correct - just over 4000 litres.
But then again, Jimmy knows because I believe he was instrumental in planning the "sweep stake" we had for the fuel consumption that we did from Menorca to Tunisia.

Aftyer reaching Tunisia, we refuelled and had a "sweep stake". Each member of the crew had a guess at how much fuel we used between Mahon and Bizerte. The nearest guess won the prize.

Guess who won?

 

[jfm]

P67 2008 model year has tank capacity of 4090 litres.

Cheers
Jimmy

Ah thanks. The internet references I found (on a couple of examples on Yachtworld) must have been differnet model years (or wrong!). 4090 makes much more sense. Still, then needles must have been sphincter-tighteningly deep into the red zone if JW took on nearly 3600 litres!

 

[BartW]

4090 makes much more sense. Still, then needles must have been sphincter-tighteningly deep into the red zone if JW took on nearly 3600 litres!

less then 500l left, never been that deep

 

[rafiki_]

less then 500l left, never been that deep

Good for say 40 miles planing, and 140 at D speeds. Seems ok for me, but not to the std 20% factor. I guess it depends upon how well one knows the region, and where the diesel farms are?

 

[BartW]

Good for say 40 miles planing, and 140 at D speeds. Seems ok for me, but not to the std 20% factor. I guess it depends upon how well one knows the region, and where the diesel farms are?

in my case its 33miles planing or 100 miles at D, so still quite a lot,
but its so low on the indicator tube that it's very scary,
but that's just me

 

[jfm]

Good for say 40 miles planing, and 140 at D speeds. Seems ok for me, but not to the std 20% factor. I guess it depends upon how well one knows the region, and where the diesel farms are?

Yup all true as a matter of maths. The issues become more things like

1. what angle/motion of boat will mean you cannot suck out the last bit of diesel;
2. inaccuracies in the gauges, such that you don't know you have that 500 litres, etc, and sight gauges don't help you right at the bottom of the tank, and so you're wondering (+scared) if you have only say 100litres and you're about to find out the answer to Q1

BTW I do not work slavishly to 20% on a larger boat. Hurricane will have had good data from the first 50% of that Biscay crossing with the option to turn left, so he will have been comfortable running tighter than 20% margin for the second half of that crossing I'd think

 

[rafiki_]

Yup, I guess it depends how well you know your boat, it's limitations and the prevailing conditions.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Yup all true as a matter of maths. The issues become more things like

1. what angle/motion of boat will mean you cannot suck out the last bit of diesel;
2. inaccuracies in the gauges, such that you don't know you have that 500 litres, etc, and sight gauges don't help you right at the bottom of the tank, and so you're wondering (+scared) if you have only say 100litres and you're about to find out the answer to Q1

BTW I do not work slavishly to 20% on a larger boat. Hurricane will have had good data from the first 50% of that Biscay crossing with the option to turn left, so he will have been comfortable running tighter than 20% margin for the second half of that crossing I'd think

Iirc Hurricane went to some effort to gather accurate cruising fuel consumption stats before JW left the UK, to help with passage planning both down to St Carles, and then from SC to Valletta. That particular (18 hour) leg was I think 10 hours D with the rest P in order to safely extend JW's range to make the crossing from Mahon to Bizerte.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Hurricane]

Iirc Hurricane went to some effort to gather accurate cruising fuel consumption stats before JW left the UK, to help with passage planning both down to St Carles, and then from SC to Valletta. That particular (18 hour) leg was I think 10 hours D with the rest P in order to safely extend JW's range to make the crossing from Mahon to Bizerte.

Cheers
Jimmy

Yep
I remember a long overnight passage from Lymington to Torquay at displacement speed all the way with tanks "topped" at Lymington and Torquay just so that we could confirm the accuracy of the displacement consumption.

And yes, the run from Mahon to Biserte was 10 hours at displacement - you may remember that everyone was very pleased to finally get onto the plane for the next 8 hours!!

 

[MapisM]

And yes, the run from Mahon to Biserte was 10 hours at displacement - you may remember that everyone was very pleased to finally get onto the plane for the next 8 hours!!

Pah, obviously not a proper marine crew...
Last winter I made a 3 full days passage, and none of those onboard (well, almost...) would have swapped that for a plane!

 

[Pinnacle]

Warning - old thread resurrection.

The original photos are now visible again! If you haven’t read Hurricanes posts at the beginning of this thread, I strongly recommend it!

Thanks to Hurricane for the work to make them viewable again and to all at YBW.com that made this possible.

 

[terranova]

Excellent !

Thanks for the heads up. I was reviewing lots of long threads about cruising in the Med over the Summer and was really disappointed the photos weren't available. This is great news.