CC Yacht Delivery: No Guts; No Glory

We had another fun filled, action packed day on the water. We pulled out of St Augustine this morning a few minutes before 7:00am. The forecast off-shore was great so we thought we would try our luck running down the coast instead of dealing with all the no wake Manatee zones that plague the east coast of Florida. Once outside the inlet, the run down to Cape Canaveral was great. Seas were maybe 2 feet and for the most part it was very calm.

We rounded Cape Canaveral right at 11:00am and set the next waypoint for the St Lucie Inlet at Stuart, our destination for the night. We knew the fuel would be close, but I made the calculations at least 20 times last night and knew we "should" have enough fuel. Well, as they say, "no guts, no glory". The vessel view kept telling us we were going to run out of fuel before Stuart. And according to vessel view, we did run out of fuel. We ran out of fuel about 10 miles short of the Inlet and 25 miles short of the marina.

We kept the throttle down and making our way to the inlet. Based on how well the boat was running all week and all the fuel calculations we did, we had to have more fuel than the gauges were telling us. The manual gauges were pegged on "E" and vessel view was giving us a fuel warning. We took a picture of the vessel view and the GPS. The worst that could happen is that we would need to call Sea Tow or BoatUS. The good news, we did make it all the way to Sunset Bay Marina tonight on the St Lucie Canal and we are all set to run across Lake Okeechobee in the morning. The usable fuel on this boat according to the manuals is 332 gallons. We put 311 gallons on board when we got in. That first beer never tasted so good.