MattZ
Member
Hello all, thanks for letting me join. I've been sailing for 50 years but have moved to a new area where a trawler would be an ideal boat so it's time to make the switch. I've been looking at used boat ads and while there are a lot of beauties out there, they mostly aren't in the budget. One that might be is an Integrity 34 ES. I've read that they're good boats other than possible osmotic blisters. I fixed a few hundred of them once on a Catalina 30, and I have no intention of ever doing that again. At any rate this boat has twin 180 Yanmars. I'd prefer a single engine but can't wait forever for one to come around. I saw a post here saying a boat of the same type used 35 L (9.25 gal) per hour in the open ocean. I'll be on sounds and bays in NC and based on my apples to oranges comparison 9.25 gal/hour sounds like a lot. To the folks out here that have experience with this make/model of boat, does that sound like a reasonable consumption rate?