Gas.....................74-18
Electricity...........51-75
Coal....................34-94
Diesel................985-79
Total 1146-66
Gas
We seem to use a 13 kg gas bottle in just under 3 months. It is only for cooking. The cost of a cylinder refill varies around the system, we paid £22-38, £24-50 and £27-30 making an average of £24-73
Electricity
Thorne moorings 3 months...............30-95
Shobnal Basin one week.................... 5-00
Aylesbury Marina 2 x £1 cards......... 2-00
St Pancras Marina Fixed £3 + meter.. 3-80
Savile Town Wharf 2 x £10 cards.....10-00
Total 51-75
When moored up over the winter when the boat is unattended we level a couple of thermostatic heaters plugged in to the 240v supply and set to come on when the temperature drops below 2C. Otherwise the shore supply just keeps the batteries topped.
When we enter a marina over the summer different marinas charge differently Shobnal charged a fix sum. Aylesbury had a machine to obtain cards at a subsidised rate. St Pancras there was a fixed charge of £3 plus very low priced units read by a meter. We will have to see how much we use at Dewsbury but I have allowed £20 up until Christmas
Coal
6 x 10kg @ £2-99..........................17-94
2 x 20kg Supertherm at £8-50.......17-00
Total 34-94
The 10 kg bags were bought from B&M I think and we took them with us from home when we started our cruising. We use about 2.5 kg of coal for an evenings fire but that is supplemented by logs that we have found and dried along the way. I often take logs from home over the winter so that there are plenty when we set off that are dried and then replace through the summer as we go along. I have many comments from gongoozlers about having logs below my solar panels drying out. It seems an obvious place to me as they are kept dry and out of the way, although there isn't room for too many there. The multistove is an added extra but it is lovely to have it on a winters evening. Ours is in the middle of the boat and so easily heats all through even without an eco fan on the go.
I haven't found away of being able to actually evaluate how much the solar panels save for me. I would save more if our cruising patterns were to be stationary for more days as then I would not have to run the engine to charge the batteries, but how I can quantify it easily is beyond me.
Diesel
1062.6 ltrs.......................... 985-79
The lowest price paid was 76p/120p and the highest was £1 per litre.
The average price paid was 92.8p/Ltr
The engine ran for 686.5 hours so the average is 1.55 ltrs/hour.
However our Hurricane heater is diesel and is fed from the same tank. The Hurricane ran for 148 hours this year. That makes about 1.6 hours a day, normally to give hot water for a shower in the morning and to take the chill off first thing so getting out of bed to make the tea is not so much of a chore. It is just like your home heating as it is set by a thermostat and timer so doesn't need to come on if the boat is warm enough and only heat the water if the calorifier temperature is down. The makers give the consumption as 0.84 lt/hour so that makes 124.3 ltrs used over the year. If we take that from the total consumption it means we used 944.8 ltrs so our true engine average consumption has been 1.38 ltrs per hour, which I don't think is too bad when I think back to what we have done and where we have been.
I wish there was a standardisation of how diesel prices are quoted as it gets a little complicated, especially on the phone. I also wish marinas and other supplies would have an up to date sign outside their establishments so that you could see before entering. I have had suppliers almost push me into declaring 100% as it is no skin off their nose as the declaration is up to the boat not the supplier. I haven't had any that demanded a 40/60% split. I often declare 90/10% (domestic/motive) as our cruise pattern is to move for about four hours and even if remaining moored I would have to run the engine about that long to heat water and charge batteries so feel I can easily justify my declaration.
Electricity...........51-75
Coal....................34-94
Diesel................985-79
Total 1146-66
Gas
We seem to use a 13 kg gas bottle in just under 3 months. It is only for cooking. The cost of a cylinder refill varies around the system, we paid £22-38, £24-50 and £27-30 making an average of £24-73
Electricity
Thorne moorings 3 months...............30-95
Shobnal Basin one week.................... 5-00
Aylesbury Marina 2 x £1 cards......... 2-00
St Pancras Marina Fixed £3 + meter.. 3-80
Savile Town Wharf 2 x £10 cards.....10-00
Total 51-75
When moored up over the winter when the boat is unattended we level a couple of thermostatic heaters plugged in to the 240v supply and set to come on when the temperature drops below 2C. Otherwise the shore supply just keeps the batteries topped.
When we enter a marina over the summer different marinas charge differently Shobnal charged a fix sum. Aylesbury had a machine to obtain cards at a subsidised rate. St Pancras there was a fixed charge of £3 plus very low priced units read by a meter. We will have to see how much we use at Dewsbury but I have allowed £20 up until Christmas
Coal
6 x 10kg @ £2-99..........................17-94
2 x 20kg Supertherm at £8-50.......17-00
Total 34-94
The 10 kg bags were bought from B&M I think and we took them with us from home when we started our cruising. We use about 2.5 kg of coal for an evenings fire but that is supplemented by logs that we have found and dried along the way. I often take logs from home over the winter so that there are plenty when we set off that are dried and then replace through the summer as we go along. I have many comments from gongoozlers about having logs below my solar panels drying out. It seems an obvious place to me as they are kept dry and out of the way, although there isn't room for too many there. The multistove is an added extra but it is lovely to have it on a winters evening. Ours is in the middle of the boat and so easily heats all through even without an eco fan on the go.
I haven't found away of being able to actually evaluate how much the solar panels save for me. I would save more if our cruising patterns were to be stationary for more days as then I would not have to run the engine to charge the batteries, but how I can quantify it easily is beyond me.
Diesel
1062.6 ltrs.......................... 985-79
The lowest price paid was 76p/120p and the highest was £1 per litre.
The average price paid was 92.8p/Ltr
The engine ran for 686.5 hours so the average is 1.55 ltrs/hour.
However our Hurricane heater is diesel and is fed from the same tank. The Hurricane ran for 148 hours this year. That makes about 1.6 hours a day, normally to give hot water for a shower in the morning and to take the chill off first thing so getting out of bed to make the tea is not so much of a chore. It is just like your home heating as it is set by a thermostat and timer so doesn't need to come on if the boat is warm enough and only heat the water if the calorifier temperature is down. The makers give the consumption as 0.84 lt/hour so that makes 124.3 ltrs used over the year. If we take that from the total consumption it means we used 944.8 ltrs so our true engine average consumption has been 1.38 ltrs per hour, which I don't think is too bad when I think back to what we have done and where we have been.
I wish there was a standardisation of how diesel prices are quoted as it gets a little complicated, especially on the phone. I also wish marinas and other supplies would have an up to date sign outside their establishments so that you could see before entering. I have had suppliers almost push me into declaring 100% as it is no skin off their nose as the declaration is up to the boat not the supplier. I haven't had any that demanded a 40/60% split. I often declare 90/10% (domestic/motive) as our cruise pattern is to move for about four hours and even if remaining moored I would have to run the engine about that long to heat water and charge batteries so feel I can easily justify my declaration.
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