Cruising SE Alaska out of Skagway, 2018.

Colby & Bill, you two are really making the best of having a trailerable boat this year & know you both will have a wonderful time at the Isle Royale National Park with all the others.

And yes Colby experience helps, but sure doesn’t make you immune from mistakes that shouldn’t be made. I’m personally not willing to do the complete flight list type routine, but a few like the plug & trailer electrical & mechanical connections properly made should be on a reminder list. In my case at Atlin Lake & other times mistakes have been made, it has almost always been due to breaking up of the normal routine. At Atlin my concentration was shifted to the steep narrow ramp, strong winds & how to best get the boat from the trailer in the water to the small dock further off to the side, but lack of concentration can just as easily occur from a friendly inquisitor inquiring about the unique boat we have. It can become a catch 22 ordeal. A detailed list can be overemphasized, while not giving enough thought at the same time to the abnormal not on a list occurring.

Steve, if all comes out as planned, we are looking forward to seeing you & Diane again at Lake Powell. I’ll be adding a few photos & in the future sometime some video of Atlin Lake, which may help more your incentive to see it in person.

Jay
 
Thanks for the trip Jay a little shorter but it looks like you covered a lot of ground. Atlin Lake looks like you could spend some time on it. Hope to see you and Jo-lee at Yellowstone later in the summer.
 
Jody, we hope to make it to Yellowstone sometime between late August & before Bridge Bay closes in Sept. let me know what week end you plan on & we’ll see if we can be there too. We also are hoping to make the Lake Powell Gathering. Will you be there?
 
Jay planing on Aug 23 to 26 the weekend before the holiday. Not sure on dates for Powell but planing on going.
 
Jay, Glad you're home safe and sound wth no travel troubles. I have had very sporadic i-net service so have had to binge read to catch up. Someplace I missed you cleaning out the inside of the boat. I did that once, by having the cockpit full of wash water and then moving the boat on the trailer. One good slosh and it was in the cabin. Not what I planned. Hope you got all dry again.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Hi Jay,
I just read about your Alaska cruise and I have a question about how you are able to get 6 mpg. At what rpm are you running your Twin 40s to achieve this incredible fuel economy/range? I run Twin 50 hp Yamahas and I carry as much as 90 gallons on some trips. At 3800 rpm I get 3 mpg, at 4200 rpm even less than that.

Thanks and stay save,

Kevin
 
Kevin, I only got the 6 mpg or better with my old twin Honda’s by running both motors down with one in neutral & turned off & the other at about 2800 rpm & 7 mph. I changed up speed a lot depending on conditions & time frames to reach passes & daily destinations, so rpm might be as low as 2300 & speed 5 mph or up to slightly over 7 mph at 3000 rpm. The 6 mpg would be a average over a period of days. When on plane, milage dropped to between 3 & 3.5 mpg at rpm between 4400 & 4800 rpm & speed 13 & 16 mph. The average combined displacement & on plane speed fuel milage for our last three SE Alaska cruises was a little over 5 mpg. I’ve learned to value & enjoy cruising at near displacement speed with the biggest benefit being extending the range between refueling. My props used for the ocean cruise were 10 pitch x 12 inch. So far it appears our new Honda 60 hp twins running 15 pitch by 11.1 inch props will be considerably better yet in fuel burn. I do take advantage of the tides to help milage when possible.

I imagine if you only ran the one motor at similar speeds as me our mpg would be close to the same.

Jay
 
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