Luna C":1xi74i1x said:
3400 miles or so from coast to coast (NY to LND), 4.5 MPG,...... 770 gallons of fuel or so. Wind, currents, lack of auto pilot; better have another 100 on standby. I'll need an additional 154 five gallon plastic fuel tanks. (I did win the larger 25 gal. fuel tanks, they will help on the trip) Sounds good to me, can we get a sign up?
Luna C, you got it all wrong... it's really not so bad. First we trailer to Blanc-Sablon in Quebec and take the ferry across to St. Barbe in New Foundland. From there we trailer down to St, John’s on the east coast of NewFoundland.
From St. John's we launch and motor to Nanortilik Greenland - 920 statute miles. I figure about 330 gals of gas will give us plenty in reserve.
From there the rest is EASY!
We cruise from Nanortilik Greenland to Tasiilak Greenland ONLY 470 statute miles - we can get by comfortably with only 200 gals.
From Tasiilak Greenland we make a quick run over to Reykajvik Iceland - only 450 statute miles, again 200 gals is plenty.
Then its only about 130 miles to Vik, Iceland. NO PROBLEM!
From there you go to Hofn, Iceland on a roughly 150 mile leg.
From Hofn, Iceland, its only about 537 miles to Scapa in the Orkney Islands. - OK, OK - so we need maybe 250 gals for this leg to be comfortable but after we work out how to load up for the leg to Greenland, this should be simple.
From there life is VERY simple with three150 mile hops to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and then Middlesbrough.
From Middlesbrough, its only a few hops (about 400 miles total) to London (up the Thames) at which point we’ll need to register the boat and DEFINITELY need to know the Recreational Craft Design Category….
So as you can see, the only tough part is that first leg of roughly 920 miles, the rest is all down hill. With your two 25 gal tanks, you really only need about 56
5 gal tanks. We can probably get about 10 on the bow, 20 in the cockpit and maybe 26 on the roof. With the roof rack that Capt. D has made for the Hunky Dory, the tanks up top shouldn't be a problem. We could extend the transom rack of Red Fox for a few tanks back there. I'm not so sure about the tanks in the cockpit - we may have to tow them in a dinghy behind. Overall though, the trip's doable....
Who’s up for this cruise? Should I ask for a sign up sheet?
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Roger on the SeaDNA!
PS - we may be able to shorten down the first leg if we leave out of the Hudson Bay but my maps of Northern Canada and Greenland are not so good. We could start some questions on the Chips thread to see if anyone has those regions...
