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Old 09-18-2014, 03:08 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ronlord View Post
I heard the same story, but it was California to Hawaii in the version I saw.
David Butler made two singlehanded crossings from Hawaii to Seattle. The first was in Iolani, a GB42 woody, in 1992 he brought her to Seattle to sell. Passage time was 15 days 9 hours, running at 7 knots with one Lehman at 1500 RPM and the other shut down with prop off. He carried an extra 400 gallons of fuel in 5 gallon cans (!) and had two days fuel left when he got to Seattle. He stopped mid-passage and changed the prop from one shaft to the other, to equalize engine hours.

In 1996 he made the same trip in a 60,000 lb 47' Cheoy Lee called Holokai. She carried 2000 gallons of fuel for twin Perkins power and he didn't need to shut one down, at 7.5 knots she burned 75 gallons a day.

The article covering this is in PassageMaker Vol 2, No 3 (Fall 1997).
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