Hi Todd I thought your account of your Lake Huron trip was intresting. What a great trip, have you sailed that area before? I plan on taking similar voyages when I retire next year. Bravo
Wayne M17 #204 "Intrepid" ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ">Mboats<" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:35 PM Subject: M_Boats: water usage thought I'd pass this along in case anyone is trip planning... I started the rendezvous with 28 gallons of water stowed under the v-berth. You can just imagine where that put my boot stripe. (boot stripe? what boot stripe? I didn't see any boot stripe. Did you see any boot stripe?). Add to that a couple of gallons in the solar shower starting out makes about 30 gallons. Figure 14 days on the water minus two days with access to shore showers leaves 12 days of usage. I returned with a whopping 13 gallons (I didn't think I had that much left) which means I used 17 gallons in 12 days, or less than 1 1/2 gallons/day. I didn't drink much of it and we ate out a fair amount, but I did use some to boil spaghetti noodles for a couple meals and other, lighter cooking. The big use was showering. Question is, whether that was big enough is something that can only be properly answered by those who may have been downwind :-) Had I done more cooking and drank more of it then probably the result would have been closer to 2 gallons/day consumption. I didn't keep a tally of my usage so I was a bit surprised at how much I brought back. gasoline used in that time period was 3 quarts per week with motoring mostly in calms. Tod _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
