[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes 22 Fuel Mileage

[Christine Allison]

Last summer I motored (no sailing) from Brooklyn under the Verrazano bridge,
around Staten Island and back to Brooklyn.  The trip took slightly more then
10 hours and according to my GPS I covered about 45 miles.

I started with slightly less then full tank of fuel and there was about a
pint remaining in the 5.5 gallon tank when I got back to Brooklyn.

The engine was a 2002 5.5hp Nissan four stroke.  I ran the whole trip at
about 60% throttle.

Via simple arithmetic I averaged 4.5 knots and my fuel consumption was about
8-9 miles/gallon.

Given the length of the trip.  The fact that I had helping and offsetting
counter currents that coupled with the constant RPM of the engine leads me
to believe that this is pretty good data.


Richard Smith