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I live just off I65 south of Nashville. Maybe we will see you guys on the way through but we are leaving early Saturday and possibly driving straight through to Ft. Lauderdale.
I am taking my ar192. This will be my first ocean experience but hey, you only live once right?! We will be safe and follow the directions of the experienced guys but I'm sure it will be fine. Fuel though is definitely something we are watching closely. The last conversation I had with my crew we decided to bring 20 gallons of extra fuel JUST IN CASE we really so burn as much as we think we will. It's cheap insurance. We have 4 square fuel jugs they use for dirt bikes/atv's. They have a 18" long flexible filling neck too. We will be testing out the refueling in the next few weeks to see if we need a longer fill neck.
My estimate is that if conditions are the same as last year your 192 will burn 46 gallons on the trip to Bimini. 30 gallons in the boat and 20 in fuel cans would not be enough to make me comfortable! There is a real possibility that anyone who runs out of fuel may never see their boat again. As Upperdeck has said, no one will be left behind but if we are running low on fuel it is unlikely that anyone will have fuel to tow another boat in safely.
@tim h and I were discussing this today. How to organize our caravan that is. We have a technique that we use snowmobiling that will work well for our flotilla. No worries!
Hopefully the 19's will be somewhere in the middle of the pack instead of the end of the line on the way over.
Organize? I thought it was a race!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With 3.5 MPG at 28 you have almost the same fuel consumption as Upperdeck's 212X. He burned 35 gallons on the way over in rough water last year.
If the seas are calm, it will be a race!
@upperdeck I was actually going to ping you on this subject today, last year we had the benefit of seeing everyone, what's the plan you're formulating?
I have taken a 2 year old and a 6 month old out to Ship Island in the Gulf. It is an 11 mile each way trip with rougher water. So on those days the kids traveled about a third as far as we will crossing over to Bimini. My son loves boats and beaches so he enjoyed the two trips that we made while he was two. My six month old nephew was not upset by the trip even when we came back in the roughest water I have boated in. But his mother was very upset and scared as we bounced through the chop.
The trips to Ship Island when my son was two were in a LX210 which is similar in size and weight to the SX190.
