2016 By the Numbers
This post is for my fellow left-brained number crunchers.
We left on August 14th, which means we were cruising for 20 weeks, or 140 days, in 2016.
In that time, we traveled 2,780 nautical miles
Which took us 550 hours of travel time
That is an average speed of 5 knots
Of that 550 hours of travel time,
We sailed 219.5 of them
And motored 330.5 of them.
I am hoping in 2017 that ratio will drastically change. There are several factors that contributed to our high motoring rate including: “sailing” the inside passage in Canada which means mostly motoring, staying close to the coast of the US, which has predictably light winds in the summer, and hurrying down Baja to catch a flight, still new to concept of the slow pacing of cruising.
To motor all that way, we burned about 264 gallons of diesel
(at a rate of about 0.8 gallons per hour)
Halcyon spent the 140 nights in 48 different places
Including 10 marinas
37 anchorages
And 1 mooring ball
We spent more time at anchor than in a marina
87 nights anchored
30 nights in a marina
(plus an additional 22 nights when we left Halcyon on her own in San Jose del Cabo and flew home to see family, but I don’t really count that…)
We sailed in 3 countries: Canada, US and Mexico
(they are very big countries…)
Our longest passage was 57 hours, from Ilwaco, WA to Crescent City, CA
The furthest offshore we have been is 85 miles (somewhere off of Oregon on the same passage from Ilwaco to Crescent City)
We caught or gathered and consumed 16 varieties of sea life:
- Rock crab
- Greyling
- Rock fish
- Spot prawn
- Oysters
- Clams
- Sea urchins
- King salmon
- Ling cod
- Albacore tuna
- Bonita
- Sierra
- Skip jack
- Black fin tuna
- Pacific spiny lobster
And finally, my favorite statistic: we hosted 12 different visitors/crew members (defined by anyone that stayed on the boat overnight).
Shout out to Halcyon’s original and most favorite groupies:
Leah, Kevin, Adam, Luke, Megan, Geoff, Kristen, Cat, Brian, Gemina, Michel and Jess.
