UK fined £32m Euros over use of Red Diesel In Private Pleasure Boats

[Momac]

14 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

You also missed that the polythene container is actually sold containing 25 litres - not 20 litres as suggested.

I had not clicked on the link. .

So the price including the container seems more reasonable.

But the container is still not free.

 

[ditchcrawler]

My heating oil quote for this week is down a bit 71.2 p + VAT so about 76p/lt

[peterboat]

4 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

My heating oil quote for this week is down a bit 71.2 p + VAT so about 76p/lt

Add 2% 2 stroke oil to kerosene runs very well in a diesel engine, old scool type

[Midnight]

Fuel split according to the Midnight calculation formulae
Cruising: that's 33.3% cruising - 33.3% charging - 33.3% heating the calorifier

In a lock 15mins per lock: 50% charging - 50% heating the calorifier
Moored: 50% charging - 50% heating the calorifier
So depending on your cruising pattern maybe the true split should be around 95% domestic / 5% cruising or less
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Edited October 13, 2023 by Midnight

[Tim Lewis]

On 04/10/2023 at 15:29, nb Innisfree said:

I fitted an hour counter to record when prop was turning, two reasons,

1: to be honest,

2: to give a reasonable record of hours spent. cruising. 

As liveaboard ccers we recorded an average of 20%  cruising and 80%, domestic, we once went from Skipton to Devizes in a few days (approx 8 hrs daily) the split was exactly 60/40!

if you did Skipton to Devizes ‘in a few days’ you would have had to be using rocket fuel, not diesel!