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Frank Hopper
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Pitcairn Island
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Initially Posted - 03/30/2005 : 20:05:49

I suppose the stink boaters are in for trouble this year. This is what caused the sailing industry to boom in the 70's Our boats may appreciate this year!

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 03/30/2005 : 20:17:53

Hey Frank--SHHHHHH!
Don't tell our insurance companies that

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 03/30/2005 : 20:58:09

Guy comes home from work and his wife insists he take her somewhere expensive....so he takes her to the gas station.

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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 03/30/2005 : 21:25:54

Frank,

I see you are buying gas at a discount in your part of the country. I paid $2.47 a gallon yesterday.

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 05:40:18

it cost me 45 bucks to fill up yesterday.

In two weeks I'll be taking my boat down to the Keys for three weeks of sailing. I get 8.5 mpg towing, 2200 miles round trip, assume 2.50 per gallon equals 650 smackeroos on gas alone. florida turnpike is $50 when you tow a tandem axle trailer.

But sailing to the Dry Tortugas and snorkeling

eating fresh seafood

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reuben
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 08:15:49

Many of the powerboats (28-38 feet) in our marina take a weekly excursion to a dockside restaurant less than 20 miles away. Last year the owner of a Carver 32 told me he could no longer afford the trip, which cost $100 each week in fuel alone. He and his wife spent many a night in the marina, cooking steaks on their Magma. Of course sailing has its own expenses, but for the whole summer (roughly 40 days & 25 nights on the boat) we spent twelve dollars on gas. Sure makes the hefty marina fee easier to take.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 09:43:28

And to think before long it will cost $36 to fill a six gallon tank if the prognosticators are right about the eventual cost of gas.

Good Lord I remember when a gallon of gas cost $0.11 per.

We had an old timer,(looked like Popeye ) corn cob pipe and all who rowed a twenty something sailboat the length of the Patchogue River, about a mile , to the bay to sail. I thought it quaint at the time...foolish me.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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lcharlot
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 10:07:41

Here in central California, gas is currently $2.25, diesel $2.50 (these are the lowest prices, at the "independant" stations. Name brand gas, like Shell, Chevron, or Union 76 will run $0.25 higher). It cost $87 to fill my truck last week; if diesel hits $3.50 this summer, as some predictions indicate, it would cost $123 to fill up. If that happens, I will have to take the truck out of service and look for a small car I guess. I can't afford to put $3.50 fuel into a vehicle that gets only 16 mpg. I've heard that the high price of diesel fuel has bankrupted something like 100,000 big-rig owner-operators nationwide. They have been put out of business and their trucks reposessed. I have pretty much come to the conclusion that my planned trip to the San Juans this coming July is cancelled; I don't think anyone else from my sailing club is going, unless fuel prices drop back down and it doesn't look like they will. At $3.50/gallon, and 12 mpg towing the boat, the round trip from Sacramento to Bellingham would cost $554 just for fuel in the truck and I can't afford that.

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Frank Hopper
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Pitcairn Island
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 11:38:34

I have a chance to buy a 1980 ford 350 van that has been cropped to have a fifth wheel bed. It has dualies and a 460 engine. The truck has seen very little use in its years and the guy (2nd owner) wants $2,000 for it. 8mpg towing 12mpg empty. It would certainly tow my rig better than my Mountaineer does but maybe towing is no longer an option.!

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dlucier
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Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 12:07:40

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 I have a chance to buy a 1980 ford 350 van that has been cropped to have a fifth wheel bed. It has dualies and a 460 engine. The truck has seen very little use in its years and the guy (2nd owner) wants $2,000 for it. 8mpg towing 12mpg empty. It would certainly tow my rig better than my Mountaineer does but maybe towing is no longer an option.!
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If I only towed twice a year, once to the marina in Spring and another back home in the fall, I'd be inclined to rent a truck for towing day rather than incur the expense of buying a truck, maintenance, fuel mileage, insurance, storage,...etc.

This way you can keep your 60mpg Prius!

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Ed Montague
Captain

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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 13:13:08

Larry, Forget the San Juans, come on down to Catalina Island for the Rendevous in July, we could have a very good C25 turn out and it is only an 800 mile round trip for you instead of the the 2200 miles. What a deal!!!!

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PZell
Admiral

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USA
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 13:26:04

My yuloh might be getting some use this summer!!! Trouble is I don't think
I could scull against that 20-25kt breeze that comes down our channel in the summer sometimes (comes thru a col from the coast) to SSF.

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osmepneo
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USA
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Response Posted - 03/31/2005 : 18:48:18

My rule when gas prices are going up is to fill up frequently. Keep the near full with (relatively) cheap gas. When prices fall off, use up alot of the expensive stuff before filling up. I hate to think of filling my truck up with the current prices! I guess we're confined to our normal sailing waters.

Oh well the snows melting and its time to start working on the bottom!

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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 04/01/2005 : 07:28:39

On the bright side, the higher gas prices my decrease the number of power boats for those of us who sail on lakes.

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Ben
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Response Posted - 04/01/2005 : 09:28:11

That's what I'm hoping for. I hate having to dodge these turkeys!

It must be tons of fun for these guys to race up and down my 1 mile by 4 mile reservoir.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 04/01/2005 : 10:39:16

Judging by the number of boats on the ICW in my part of Florida last Saturday you'd have thought gas was free. It seemed like I-75 during rush hour. And it's frustrating how many of them could give a rats butt about how their wake affects that sailboat 25 feet off their beam as they plow by.

Steve

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thacket3
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Response Posted - 04/01/2005 : 12:30:31

I couldn't agree more Steve. Seems like the busiest spring break season in a few years ( at least pre 9/11)
I paid $9.06 for three gallons at my marina last weekend. Should last me a few months.

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dave holtgrave
Captain

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427 Posts

Response Posted - 04/01/2005 : 13:03:11

why do you think a corvette epa rating are around 18 and 29 mpg, and a full size suv is rated at 13 and 17 mpg?

just a little humor for today.

it does seem that if a corvette is rated that high that no matter a 4wd or lower geared rear end would make that big of a differance.

i bet the major car makers are wishing they wouldn't have made so many deals with the fuel companies.
look who got caught holding the suv.

dave holrgrave
5722 sk/tr
hard and dry near carlyle lake in southern illinois

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