I threw it in at Onslow and tonked up the coast doing @ 21 knots. The boat (8M Haines Hunter Patriot) has 2 x 225 Honda's, and carries 500 Lts premium. I had 20 x 20 LTR plastic jerries plus 5 x 20 of water. Boat had 30 lts water on board.
We went out to the reefs west of Monte's twice, and generally went banana' everywhere, though i kept my speed to no higher than 30 knots, and typically just tonked at 25 knots.
All up, we probably used @ 450 - 500 Lts for 9 days...maybe a wee bit more but hard to tell as I forgot to record how much i threw in when i got back to Perth and refilled the boat tank. I actually never used to worry about fuel, my deal with the company i used to work for was a company car plus all the fuel i needed for my boat and F truck. They got a friggin slave, and I got free fuel for 12 years. Different story now, back working for the fire brigade so gotta pay my own fuel bill...ouch!!
.thumbnail.JPG "Nice feed from back in July")
Paul N
Posts: 480
Date Joined: 09/11/06
Great pic
Stuff dreams are made of . On the to do list
Lucky Tim
Posts: 2536
Date Joined: 28/11/07
looks right at home. Hell of
looks right at home. Hell of a place, don't tell anyone though
leesfishin
Posts: 233
Date Joined: 27/03/11
great pic and boat!magic
great pic and boat!
magic location only been there on a charter the kyln.
would love to take my boat over. how much fuel did you need?
grumpy_jeff
Posts: 23
Date Joined: 26/10/11
Hi, I threw it in at Onslow
Hi,
I threw it in at Onslow and tonked up the coast doing @ 21 knots. The boat (8M Haines Hunter Patriot) has 2 x 225 Honda's, and carries 500 Lts premium. I had 20 x 20 LTR plastic jerries plus 5 x 20 of water. Boat had 30 lts water on board.
We went out to the reefs west of Monte's twice, and generally went banana' everywhere, though i kept my speed to no higher than 30 knots, and typically just tonked at 25 knots.
All up, we probably used @ 450 - 500 Lts for 9 days...maybe a wee bit more but hard to tell as I forgot to record how much i threw in when i got back to Perth and refilled the boat tank. I actually never used to worry about fuel, my deal with the company i used to work for was a company car plus all the fuel i needed for my boat and F truck. They got a friggin slave, and I got free fuel for 12 years. Different story now, back working for the fire brigade so gotta pay my own fuel bill...ouch!!
Ben Derecki
Posts: 1926
Date Joined: 10/10/07
Epic
We scored great weather last Sept, only kicked up on the way home but that was five days and not ten.
Can't wait to get back, what a magic piece of WA hey.