Re: Fuel use
- From: Gibbo <gibbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 08:41:01 +0100
Nick Atty wrote:
On Mon, 07 May 2007 20:57:33 +0100, Gibbo <gibbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nick Atty wrote:We sometimes have discussions here about fuel use. Over the last fewOdd. That's about the same consumption I get on a 6 litre 4LW in a 70 footer.
weeks we've used Mintball a bit more than had become typical, and have
filled her up to completely full on two occasions.
So I can give some vaguely useful figures - a total of 213 miles and 148
locks (171 miles of this was narrow canal, the rest broad canal or
river) - consumed exactly 100 litres of gas oil.
So that suggests about 2 miles a litre, and given the speed and the
locks I'd say 1 litre an hour (CanalplanAC estimates 106 hours for the
travelling).
She's a 52 foot narrow boat with a 1.5l BMC.
But would you expect to use more because of the larger engine, more
because of the length, less because no doubt your engine runs more
leisurely (there was a chunk of high speed river work in there), or less
because you don't need to use the engine as much to keep station in
locks?
I would have expected more because of the bigger engine (hardly doing any real work so the greater friction losses etc will contribute more to waste). And perhaps slightly more because of the longer boat.
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