I've had the chance to peruse my log, and have come up with some summary stats for the trip:
7,000 total miles driven - 4000 miles for the trip to Florida (detour route to visit son in Maryland) and 3000 miles on the return trip
Overall average truck mileage: 14 miles per gallon (diesel)
At an average cost of $4.00 per4 gallon for diesel, road fuel cost totaled $2000 for the trip (that about equals what a person might spend driving 60 miles round trip per day to work, getting around 25mpg - It's just me, but I'd rather spend that fuel bill driving to the Bahamas
1100 nautical miles cruised in the boat
Motoring approximately 2/3's of the time and covering around 800nm under power
Sailing approximately 1/3 of the time and covering around 300nm sailing
The 50 hp outboard consumed about 120 gallons of gas, getting 6.7 miles per gallon at between 2000 and 2500 rpm (that works out to around 3/4 gallon per hour)
Fresh water consumed - 50 gallons, or close to a gallon per day, at an average price of $.50/gallon (doesn't include water for the solar shower, which was mostly melted ice cubes out of the ice chest)
Stove fuel consumed - nearly 3 gallons of kerosene in the Wallas stove, for an average of around 1 gallon per month, with allowances for the 2 weeks when the stove was out of commission (this rate of use would be substantially higher if we were also using the stove for space heating which was, of course, unnecessary. Also, used about 8 canisters of propane for BBQ and portable stove, which covered when Wallas was on the fritz. 2 canisters/month would be a reasonable average when not regularly cooking with propane cylinders.
We spent 9 nights in marinas, with cost ranging from $.75/foot to $2.75/foot
We spent 14 nights on mooring balls (cost was $15/night at Wardrick Wells, but free elsewhere)
We anchored out 47 nights, and only set 2 anchors (Bahamian moor) once, in a narrow tidal creek with strong reversing current
The Bruce anchor always held well, even one night when, set for a southerly breeze, we got hit with 30 to 40 knots of north wind in the middle of the night.
We passed something like 45 opening bridges in the ICW, between Ft. Pierce and Miami.
Items which were lost, broke or required repair included the bent swim ladder (damaged by boat wake in Nassau marina); VHF radio high power transmitter, which failed; dinghy oar plade which somehow turned up missing (big mystery of the trip); mast light plug fitting, which died from corrosion; bow running light, which got broken during a hard landing; electric water pump which died; and Wallas stove fuel line which developed a crack at the compression fitting, and was repaired, once discovered, during the trip. Considering the length of time we were out, and the distances covered, both by road and on the water, the boat, truck and trailer all performed in outstanding fashion.
