Took our new (to us) boat out for its first trip offshore. We left the house at 5am and started fishing in 150 ft straight out at 8am.
It was slow and we didn’t get the first bite until around 10am in around 240 ft. Put two dolphin in the boat on that double hookup.
Worked the ledge down to Edisto Banks and finally found a weedline in 150 ft and picked up a couple more. Three of the fish were over 20lbs.
We saw a small blue marlin jump not too far from the boat when we packing up ready to head back in at 1pm.
We headed back in early because we are still trying to figure out what our fuel burn is with the 82 gallon tank.
Again, it was a slow day but any day we go out and have fun and make it back safe is a good day. Said we would name the boat after the first fish it caught so El Dorado it is.
Ocean was beautiful. Pink and white with the Black Crowes seemed to be the ticket.
Did you just buy that boat out of hilton head? Only reason i ask…saw one just like it last week on boat trader. Boss was gonna buy it and someone beat him to it.
“Endeavor to Persevere.
Give,Give… Never Take.”
EC
We wound up using 60.48 gallons. The GPS trip mileage was 166.3 miles. The Yamaha surface mileage was a bit more but I forgot to write it down.
We actually left the home dock near Limehouse landing at 5:30am and got home at 4:30pm (fished until 2pm).
It was too nice out there to run the optimum cruise which I think is around 3800 - 4000 rpms. With the tabs down I ran us (loaded down and three full grown men) out around 27 mph and over 30 mph back (comfortably) which was more like 4500 - 4900 rpms.
On a 90-100 mile round trip running from the jettys, this cost us some fuel but I knew it good and well.
I could have done better on MPG but we did it like we wanted that day and its a good baseline to work from.
