My CD 28 has a 13 hp Volvo with a 12 gallon fuel tank. Having just bought the boat this season, what is the cruising range for this engine?
Thanks
Warren Moore
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Volvo cruising range
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Jon Larson
Re: Volvo cruising range
Warren, my CD30 with that same engine burns a little over a quart an hour cruising at 2000 RPM. So you've got two days fuel. I normally plan on making 5knots, sometimes its more, but too often banging into a head wind and chop it's less.
Jon Larson
CD30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
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Jon Larson
CD30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
Warren Moore wrote: My CD 28 has a 13 hp Volvo with a 12 gallon fuel tank. Having just bought the boat this season, what is the cruising range for this engine?
Thanks
Warren Moore
jon9@ix.netcom.com
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Neil Gordon
Re: Volvo cruising range
Warren,
A quart an hour sounds about right. Count on more if you try to power through wind/waves, though. I generally use the motor only in and out of the marina and when there's no wind, so it's light use... half a season and about three gallons.
I'd keep the tank topped off and certainly keep from sucking it dry!! Who knows what's in there?
Where do you sail and how often do you expect to need the motor? I'd think if you can motor for days on end without a fillup, you can wait for the wind to come back, too.
Regards, Neil
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CD 28 #167
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A quart an hour sounds about right. Count on more if you try to power through wind/waves, though. I generally use the motor only in and out of the marina and when there's no wind, so it's light use... half a season and about three gallons.
I'd keep the tank topped off and certainly keep from sucking it dry!! Who knows what's in there?
Where do you sail and how often do you expect to need the motor? I'd think if you can motor for days on end without a fillup, you can wait for the wind to come back, too.
Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
CD 28 #167
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Jon Larson
Re: Volvo cruising range
Neil,
Regarding your comment on not knowing what's on the bottom of your fuel tank...
PERI has had very little use of her engine in the past ten years, in fact 4 of those years she was wrapped up in storage while we were off in other locations on temporary job assignments. Out here, I haven't used a quarter of a tank of fuel in each year that PERI has been in the water. The result, algae and whatever collected in the fuel. The guy who does the maint. on my engine gave warning when the fuel filters were last changed so we made arrangements to have the fuel and tank scrubbed. It was something else to see what had been filtered out by the scrubbing operation and to see the bottom of the tank.
First, the first fuel filter had done it's job, the filter on the engine was still clean, but the warning was clear from the first filter.
Secondly, there was stuff accumulated on the floor of the fuel tank. It's probable that ultimately it would have clogged the fuel filter or filters and thus resulting in a stoppage if the fuel filters are really filled with 'stuff' at some really inconvenient time, the worst time when things are really rough and the fuel tank is all stirred up.
Thirdly, the people who did the scrubbing had to cut an access port in the side of the tank. They commented any number of times on the guage of aluminum that Cape Dory specified for those tanks, it ranks with the heaviest guage they've seen.
The moral, the scrubbing money was amongst the very best investment in clear minded usage of PERI that I've spent on her. It ranks with replacing all the standing rigging out here on boisterous San Francisco Bay. The fuel filters work to a very good degree, one should really pay attention to what is in the filter when they are changed on a regular basis. It is probably a very good investment to replace the original FRAM filter with an even larger and more capable filter, one that has a glass bottom for visual inspection. I also now twice a year treat the fuel with a conditioner that is an algaecide.
And, lastly, Cape Dory extended their excellence even to something as mundane as fuel tank construction.
If you got doubts, play close attention to your filters! And, carry spares.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
jon9@ix.netcom.com
Regarding your comment on not knowing what's on the bottom of your fuel tank...
PERI has had very little use of her engine in the past ten years, in fact 4 of those years she was wrapped up in storage while we were off in other locations on temporary job assignments. Out here, I haven't used a quarter of a tank of fuel in each year that PERI has been in the water. The result, algae and whatever collected in the fuel. The guy who does the maint. on my engine gave warning when the fuel filters were last changed so we made arrangements to have the fuel and tank scrubbed. It was something else to see what had been filtered out by the scrubbing operation and to see the bottom of the tank.
First, the first fuel filter had done it's job, the filter on the engine was still clean, but the warning was clear from the first filter.
Secondly, there was stuff accumulated on the floor of the fuel tank. It's probable that ultimately it would have clogged the fuel filter or filters and thus resulting in a stoppage if the fuel filters are really filled with 'stuff' at some really inconvenient time, the worst time when things are really rough and the fuel tank is all stirred up.
Thirdly, the people who did the scrubbing had to cut an access port in the side of the tank. They commented any number of times on the guage of aluminum that Cape Dory specified for those tanks, it ranks with the heaviest guage they've seen.
The moral, the scrubbing money was amongst the very best investment in clear minded usage of PERI that I've spent on her. It ranks with replacing all the standing rigging out here on boisterous San Francisco Bay. The fuel filters work to a very good degree, one should really pay attention to what is in the filter when they are changed on a regular basis. It is probably a very good investment to replace the original FRAM filter with an even larger and more capable filter, one that has a glass bottom for visual inspection. I also now twice a year treat the fuel with a conditioner that is an algaecide.
And, lastly, Cape Dory extended their excellence even to something as mundane as fuel tank construction.
If you got doubts, play close attention to your filters! And, carry spares.
Jon Larson
Cape Dory 30 PERI
San Francisco Bay
Neil Gordon wrote: Warren,
A quart an hour sounds about right. Count on more if you try to power through wind/waves, though. I generally use the motor only in and out of the marina and when there's no wind, so it's light use... half a season and about three gallons.
I'd keep the tank topped off and certainly keep from sucking it dry!! Who knows what's in there?
Where do you sail and how often do you expect to need the motor? I'd think if you can motor for days on end without a fillup, you can wait for the wind to come back, too.
Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
CD 28 #167
jon9@ix.netcom.com