DepSol
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There's your mistake John, overdosing but I understand that is a habit of yours which is impossible to shake off, even with crap beer! 
hlb
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Oh! Thats Ok Barry can come as well then. Anyway its not a petrol tanker any more cos theres no petrol in it , so its just a tanker.
Can anyone give me directions for North West Passage from Plymouth and who's closest. Me in Plymouth or Gludy in Brighton. Now Ive got the tanker round the corner in Falmouth so Gludy will have to come this way. That should give me a good 200 miles start.
Haydn
Can anyone give me directions for North West Passage from Plymouth and who's closest. Me in Plymouth or Gludy in Brighton. Now Ive got the tanker round the corner in Falmouth so Gludy will have to come this way. That should give me a good 200 miles start.
Haydn
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Re: Don\'t knock an adventurous spirit!
Not even Haydn's P35 has ventured that far. However, for all the knockers, I've been looking at my Globe and it is just about possible in hops as follows
Orkney (for Southern contributors, thats an island off the North of Scotland. Anyone needing help to find Scotland in the first place, send me a mail) to Shetland - circa 150 miles
Shetland - Faroes - about 200 miles
Faroes - Iceland - about 400 miles
Coast hop round Iceland East coast to West Coast - circa 200 miles
Iceland - Greenland (Everyone will know that Tingmiarmiul is the obvious landfall) - 600mls
Round Southern tip of Greenland (which you all know is Cape Farewell) to Sydproven - circa 400 miles
Sydproven - Newfoundland coast - circa 550 miles & thereafter coast hop all the way to Florida.
I know all these distances because I have sat with my globe and a ruler!
A P35 with twin TAMD41's crusing at most economic speed which has turbos spinning say 15-16knts = 12 gals per hour
Largest crossing = about 600miles so circa 40 hours = 500gals + allow safety margin so call it 600 gals. All you need to do is replace the entire galley/dinette area with a fuel tank and attach some water wings for additional buoyancy.
A better option would be to remove the turbos and replumb the exhaust and aspiration to natural so that you could cruise at say 8knts (turbo charged engines just will not deal with pottering at 8knts for extended periods). This would pretty well double range making it possible with say 350 gals fuel capacity.
Water and food should not be a problems with the longest crossing being only about 3.5 days, icebergs/storms/collisions/mechanical breakdown excluded. Allowing for rest/weather/repair stops, the whole trip should be about possible in maybe around a month.
Finally, don't use Haydn's boat as it will definitely break down. And thinking of Haydn, it has just occurred to me that maybe the holding tank could be re-plumbed to give extra fuel capacity.
Let me know once you finished how you found the route!
Nick
Not even Haydn's P35 has ventured that far. However, for all the knockers, I've been looking at my Globe and it is just about possible in hops as follows
Orkney (for Southern contributors, thats an island off the North of Scotland. Anyone needing help to find Scotland in the first place, send me a mail) to Shetland - circa 150 miles
Shetland - Faroes - about 200 miles
Faroes - Iceland - about 400 miles
Coast hop round Iceland East coast to West Coast - circa 200 miles
Iceland - Greenland (Everyone will know that Tingmiarmiul is the obvious landfall) - 600mls
Round Southern tip of Greenland (which you all know is Cape Farewell) to Sydproven - circa 400 miles
Sydproven - Newfoundland coast - circa 550 miles & thereafter coast hop all the way to Florida.
I know all these distances because I have sat with my globe and a ruler!
A P35 with twin TAMD41's crusing at most economic speed which has turbos spinning say 15-16knts = 12 gals per hour
Largest crossing = about 600miles so circa 40 hours = 500gals + allow safety margin so call it 600 gals. All you need to do is replace the entire galley/dinette area with a fuel tank and attach some water wings for additional buoyancy.
A better option would be to remove the turbos and replumb the exhaust and aspiration to natural so that you could cruise at say 8knts (turbo charged engines just will not deal with pottering at 8knts for extended periods). This would pretty well double range making it possible with say 350 gals fuel capacity.
Water and food should not be a problems with the longest crossing being only about 3.5 days, icebergs/storms/collisions/mechanical breakdown excluded. Allowing for rest/weather/repair stops, the whole trip should be about possible in maybe around a month.
Finally, don't use Haydn's boat as it will definitely break down. And thinking of Haydn, it has just occurred to me that maybe the holding tank could be re-plumbed to give extra fuel capacity.
Let me know once you finished how you found the route!
Nick
bedouin
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I was considering a more southerly route. As my main fuel tank only holds about 9 gallons I was expecting to have to carry a couple of jerry cans of spare fuel just in case.
Good Luck with the voyage
Good Luck with the voyage