The Boat

Well yesterday was the day of truth, the pumps had come back fro Midwest Fuel Injection in Bolongbrook, Il and it was time to see if that in fact had been the cause of the surging problem. So Mark Davis the diesel man down here in Demopolis and I went on a boat ride. The boat ran exceptionally well. We went up the Black Warrior River several miles running the boat at different rpm s so as to try every speed for a period of time. The boat never surged once and was very smooth. This BW river is really something. Beautiful places to anchor, fifty feet deep most of the way, and very peaceful and secluded. Gorgeous, gorgeous,gorgeous. The boat is a 42 foot Jefferson with two state rooms with heads in each, a living salon, a galley, an aft deck and a fly bridge, and a large bow area on the front. I really should not say on the front, for that is not a boat term.......some boating language I will get into in a future posting. The boat has two Cummins engines that are 5.9s. The boat cruises very comfortably at apx 8 to 10 knots, it will cruise at 20 to 25 knots comfortably and very expensive. The fuel tanks of which there are two each hold 175 gal of diesel fuel. This is a total of 350 gallons at apx 3.00 dollars a gallon so there you go....fill er up for apx 1050 dollars...the good news is that will last all summer.. we get 2 miles to the gallon...so 700 miles...that is a nice summers travel...thanx again for checking in Tom