A 60-foot motorboat with twin, 2,000 gallon diesel tanks. Twin turbocharged
and intercooled diesels. Cruising speed 40knots. 16KW diesel genset. Air
conditioning. Washer/drier. Satellite TV, satellite phone, satellite
Internet. Ice maker. RO water make. Huge liquor cabinet crammed full. Cases
of beer. Radar, autopilot and full upper helm enclosure. This assumes a
couple or three large refrigerator/freezer units fully stocked with a side
of beef.

He wouldn't have to stop for weeks . . . He'd go out of Naples, cruise to
the Bahamas, circumnavigate them and maybe throw in a trip around Cuba as
well, return to Naples and never have stepped foot ashore anywhere. But, boy
did he ever burn the diesel and pollute the air. A carbon footprint larger
than Al Gore's! Something to be very proud of.


Wilbur Hubbard

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:06:51 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

A 60-foot motorboat with twin, 2,000 gallon diesel tanks. Twin turbocharged
and intercooled diesels. Cruising speed 40knots. 16KW diesel genset. Air
conditioning. Washer/drier. Satellite TV, satellite phone, satellite
Internet. Ice maker. RO water make. Huge liquor cabinet crammed full. Cases
of beer. Radar, autopilot and full upper helm enclosure. This assumes a
couple or three large refrigerator/freezer units fully stocked with a side
of beef.

Sounds pretty good except for the 16 kw diesel genset, way too small
for a boat like that. :-) A pair of 30s would be more like it,
those freezers and A/C units take a lot of power, and you'd need a
backup system of course. And what if all the good looking young
ladies turned on their hair driers at the same time?