Posted by Fargo Rousseau (fargo_r@…>)
Hi Lola:Re: How much extra fuel to carry? Well, I am not such a great fan of carrying fuel in “extra” containers…particularly on deck, lashed to the rail, etc. See lot of it…but that is the wrong place for fuel. Will admit to carrying about one gallon in a very well made container in the seat locker… and for one long offshore trip, I carried an extra 40 gallons. But for routine up and down the ICW, your lovely boat has a great range on the standard tank. If you started with a full tank…and motored 12 hours a day for three days at normal cruise power, you would have plenty of fuel to find a place to fill up on the forth day…that is more than 240 stature miles (the ones that are used in the ICW). But every three long days is a good rhythm for filling up. Hope you are enjoying your
F30.Best,Fargo— On Mon, 9/15/08, Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…> wrote:From: Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…>Subject: Re: [FreedomOwnersGroup] Re: Fuel GaugeTo: FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.comDate: Monday, September 15, 2008, 6:43 PM
Thanks all, I found the Gauge…1/4 full…It would be nice to install it elsewhere.BTW I looked at a boat and the guy had a plastic clear tube running up the wall to show how much water he had…I thought that was a great idea.Again thanks,Lola— On Mon, 9/15/08, James Orr <james.orr@mac. com> wrote:From: James Orr <james.orr@mac. com>Subject: Re: [FreedomOwnersGroup ] Re: Fuel GaugeTo: FreedomOwnersGroup@ yahoogroups. comDate: Monday, September 15, 2008, 4:49 PMThe remote sending unit won’t make it
anymore accurate – but will make it easier to read. As far as trusting the reading – in my opinion, anything below a quarter tank would be grounds for
concern regardless (when taking into account tank shape, angle of heel, potential sediment on tank bottom, etc…). but, individual mileage may vary…-JimOn Sep 15, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Rick Higgens wrote:This DOES sound to good to be true. Can’t wait to get back on my boatand check it out. I hate climbing in the aft cabin, moving everythingaround to get under the flooring.
Maybe the electronic one will bemore accurate. On my boat delivery trip from RI to NC, one eveningFargo asked me to check the fuel (because he knew what a hassle it wasgoing to be to check it :-). I got my flashlight, read the gauge, over1/4 tank. I came back up and told him we had plenty until tomorrowassuming 1/4 of 20 gals meant we could go another day on that easy. We ran out that night
around 10PM in the shipping lanes on theChesapeake. I got my first try at bleeding the fuel lines below whileFargo’s wife, Nang, kept watch for freighters. The 2 sad things were Ihad 15 gals of fuel in cans stowed away, and if I’d have said 1/4 tankinstead of “we have plenty”, Fargo would have told me 1/4 tank waslike running on fumes and we’d have used our reserves!Rick F30 #12 Nauti-Belle— In FreedomOwnersGroup@ yahoogroups. com, James Orr <james.orr@. …>wrote:>> The remote sending unit does mount onto the mechanical reader on the > top of the fuel tank. One can continue to use the mechanical scale on > the top of the tank even with the remote
sender installed (although as > you mention, it can be annoying). However, with the remote sending > unit, you can send the tank level reading to a tank level indicator > mounted somewhere else on the boat (i.e. mine is located next to the > main circuit panel behind the chart table – much nicer place to read > the fuel level from).> > -Jim