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Old 03-24-2004
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I don''t know those waters nor how well your boat sails e.g. in light air. You might look at the pilot charts for that area and/or Jimmy Cornell''s World Cruising Routes, if it''s available, to assess expected winds for the time of your passage. In the end, it''s a fairly straightforward computation: how much motoring is likely plus how much additional battery charging X average hourly fuel consumption for your engine...not that you''ll end up with an exact answer for any specific passage, of course!

Jack
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