As we cleared Watch Hill Light, Block Island Sound was before us as calm as I can remember. We dialed up the speed to 34 knots, put ZING on autopilot and had a nice Sunday morning conversation.
Here's proof of the 34.3 knot speed, location and fuel efficiency of 1.2 NMPG achieved with the twin Yanmar 8LV's with 370 sterndrives on 40z #34... less than a week out of the yard at Boston BoatWorks. Good job, team!
We'd just rounded Pt. Judith. Here's a close up of the Raymarine e165. You can see the COG and Heading vectors putting us between Castle Hill and Beavertail. Time is 1002 hours. We were off Ft. Adams in the harbor by 1012... just as the seabreeze started to build out of Narragansett Bay. By 1200 hours it was blowing 20+ knots out of the Southwest. Sure pays to have the speed to take advantage of weather windows like that! That 33 mile trip would have taken 4x as long in a trawler and catching some rough seas as well.
