Trip Specifics

I guess the most boring, and sometimes most surprising, is a look at the ship's log for a breakdown of time and expenses to spend a complete summer away from your home port.

All in all it was not as expensive as we thought it would be.

We left Oark Park Marina on Sodus Bay Lake Ontario on June 11, 2010, and we returned to Ess-Kay Yards in Brewerton on September 5th 2010. We were out a total of 87 days or just about three full months.

TIME
Days Out: 87
Days Actually Traveling: 11
Time Underway: 44.6 hours
Mileage Traveled: 377 miles, and never more than 55 miles from home.....LOL
Average Speed of 11.5MPH, or 10 KPH not including lock-through times.

LOCKS
Number of locks transversed: 36 at an average of 20 minutes for each lock means we spent 12 hours going up and down locks with no horizontal gain.
This recalculates our actual average forward speed to 8.5 MPH or 7.3 KPH.

FUEL
On June 11th we departed with 126 gallons of diesel on-board.
We took on fuel on 2 different occassions.
July 8, 2010 we took on 50 gallons at Ess-Kay Yards in Brewerton at $2.96 for a total of $148.36.
August 17, 2010 we took on an additional 80 gallons at Stiver's Seneca Marine at a $3.75 for a total of $300.00
Currently we have 95 gallons left on board, so total consumption was 161 gallons at an average cost of $3.35 per gallon or a total of $539.35

Consumption averages as follows:
3.67 Gallons Per Hour for both engines (1.84 per engine)
2.35 Miles Per Gallon
We are both very happy with these results.
The Lucky Find III is truly an economical vessel to operate.

Transient Dockage
90 days totaled: $1170.00
Average of $13.00 per day

TOTAL EXPENSES
Dockage: $1170.00
Fuel: $539.35
NYS Canal Pass: $75.00
TOTAL: $1,784.35
Daily Average: $19.83 per day
Number of friends we made along the way: PRICELESS

We did have a few other expenses along the way, such as a new VHF radio and antenna, new air horns and a new set of MarQuipt Boarding stairs, but we would have had those expenses anyway, either sitting at the dock in Oak Park Resort Marina or traveling. So I did not take those into consideration for this trip.
Also, we had paid Robb Lubin of Oak Park Resort Marina for our summer dockage a total of $2,200.00, and he was nice enough to give us a credit on all the unused dockage for this year. So, all in all, it really did not cost us anymore to take this trip. Thanks Robb!!
We will winter the boat at Ess-Kay Yards in Brewerton, NY this winter, and hopefully in 2011, we will travel eastbound on the canal to the Hudson River and on down to NYC.
We currently have a scheduled haul-out date of around the first week of November.

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