First of all I'd like to say "thanks to all involved" for offering this wonderful site to share information. My brother and I are the proud owners of a like new 2006 CC28 powered by Volvo D4-260's. We just returned from an offshore trip where we traveled a total of about 150 miles. (Actually the Volvo gauges said that we went 148 miles.) We left the dock with a full tank and upon our return filled the tank with 154 gallons of fuel.
The first 60 or so miles were at about 25 knots with an average engine RPM of 3050-3100. We slow trolled (mostly on one engine) for about a total of 20 miles and our return trip was about 40 miles at 20 knots and 20 miles at about 10 knots.
Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on our fuel mileage?? We were hoping that our CC28 would have more range..?? Is basically 1 mile per gallon what's to be expected from this setup??
Thanks to all for any input provided.
PS: the boat does NOT have a tower and the engines have about 50 hours on them. We left the dock with 3 adults ( all slightly overweight,) fishing gear, 500 pounds of ice, a full water tank and a full fuel tank.
The first 60 or so miles were at about 25 knots with an average engine RPM of 3050-3100. We slow trolled (mostly on one engine) for about a total of 20 miles and our return trip was about 40 miles at 20 knots and 20 miles at about 10 knots.
Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on our fuel mileage?? We were hoping that our CC28 would have more range..?? Is basically 1 mile per gallon what's to be expected from this setup??
Thanks to all for any input provided.
PS: the boat does NOT have a tower and the engines have about 50 hours on them. We left the dock with 3 adults ( all slightly overweight,) fishing gear, 500 pounds of ice, a full water tank and a full fuel tank.
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