Views From The Crew; Update-SIGMACHI: Statitics June 15, 2020 ...and Listen to those 671Ns Roar!

Good Morning America!

After a late start at about 12:30 pm  on Monday June 15 th we pulled anchor and from the SE corner of the Titusville, FL bridge and went to the west side of the Indian River and fueled up taking on about 154 gallons of diesel.

We have been taking our DETROIT DIESEL mechanics advice and running the engines at 1500 to 1800 RPM...he advised that 200 RPM would be fine on the refurbished engines!  Ah but the fuel usage.  Hank Arnold, our mechanic, out of the Jupiter, Fla area has worked on Detroit Diesels for over 30 years!  He disdained my previous running speed of 800 to 1200 RPMs.  "Diesels are made to work," Hank advised, and 800 RPM pushing a 40 ft boat with twins isn't working them hard enough."

We hand some sloppy wind out of the NW in going N on the Indian River.  Windshield wiper weather!  Dousing spray pelleted SIGMACHI's lower helm windshield.  I have  preference for the lowerhelm.  All of my new navigational instruments are at that station.  The flying bridge helm has an older gps and a VHF radio.  Of course my main navigational chart plotter is my very portable iPad pro which has my favorite chart program installed on it!

And so after a travel time of 5 hours 28 minutes, 37.9 miles traveled fro the fuel dock in Titusville we averaged 6.9 mph with the highest speed of 10.7 mph (that was after "slow passing" two sailboats.  I also slow down for fishermen in small boats because I remember being a boy with my father and his best friend's, Bob Shock, in a small 16 ft wooden boat with a 9.9 hp Evinrude outboard fishing in Eastern Bay and some big boat going by and violently rocking our very durable little fishing craft...

We have easily anchored in Ponce DeLeon Cut, along the AICWW, just North of New Smyrna Beach.

June 17 will find SIGMACHI in Daytona Beach...we bypassed it last winter 'cause it was Race Week at the Daytona 500 Speedway....no slips to be had!  It should be an easy trip of less than 20 miles...

Tight Lines!

Alan
Alan & Jeanne Cecil 
Aboard SIGMACHI 

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