If you are plotting your own sailing adventure perhaps these stats will give you some useful insight.

=== 2010 Statistics ===

Family lived aboard Eclipse: 250 days (including marina stays in Marathon and Stuart)

We operated the boat 125 days which means we were on the move 50% of the time.

We had 12 overnight trips.

Total Nautical Miles:    3375  (3881 statute miles)

    Estimated 5 knot average (miles / operating hours)

Total operating hours: 664

    Sailing             286    43%

    Motor sailing    208    31%

    Motoring          170    26%

Total engine hours: 742

    Port    343    46%

    Stbd    399    54%

    An estimated 270 hours were for charging batteries only.

Fuel used [I did not keep complete records]

    Fuel burn average = .5 gal/hr

    Estimated diesel used = 370 gallons

    Estimated gasoline used (outboard and generator) = 40 gallons

=== 2011 Statistics ===

Family lived aboard Eclipse: 330 days (including 14 living on the hard)

We operated the boat 116 days which means we were on the move 35% of the days. A related stat is that we operated (sail/motor) 626 hours which means we were moving 8% of the hours we were on board.

We had 17 overnight trips.

We celebrated New Years day 2011 as the sole boat anchored off an island in the Ragged Islands, Bahamas. Route from there: Long Island, Mayaguana, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, St Thomas, St John, BVI, St Martin, Antigua, Les Saintes, Ominica, Martinique, St Lucia, Bequia, Grenedines, Carriacou, Grenada, Tobago, Grenada, Los Roques, Las Aves, Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba.

Total Nautical Miles:    3055  (3513 statute miles)

   4.8 knot average (miles / operating hours)

   26.3nm average trip distance

   5.3 hours average trip duration

Total operating hours: 626

    Sailing             371    59%

    Motor sailing    68    11%

    Motoring          187    30%

Total engine hours: 627

    Port 296    47%

    Stbd 331    53%

    An estimated 350 hours were for charging batteries only (56%).

Fuel used

    Fuel burn average = 0.41 gal/hr

    Diesel used = 259 gallons

        we paid from $6/gal in Grenada to $1.50/gal in Tobago, avg est. $4.50/gal

    Propane = 10lbs will last us 30 days (we bake a lot)

    Rough Estimate gasoline used (outboard and generator) = 80 gallons

Curacao was $8 for gas, ouch

=== 2012 Statistics ===

Family lived aboard Eclipse: 180 days (including 50 living in a marina, or traveling inshore away from boat)

We operated the boat 69 days which means we were on the move 38% of the days. A related stat is that we operated (sail/motor) 559 hours which means we were moving 13% of the hours we were on board.

We had 16 overnight trips.

We celebrated New Years day 2012 in Aruba (with fireworks ash raining down on us, but we had a spectacular view from the water). From there: Colombia, Panama, Bay Islands, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, return to Florida in June.

Total Nautical Miles:    2843  (3270 statute miles)

   4.4 knot average (miles / operating hours)

   41.2 nm average trip distance

   8.1 hours average trip duration

Total operating hours: 559

    Sailing332    59%

    Motor sailing73    13%

    Motoring154    28%

Total engine hours: 315

    Port    155    49%

    Stbd 160    51%

    An estimated 80 hours were for charging batteries only (25%).

Fuel used

    Fuel burn average = 0.49 gal/hr

    Diesel used = 153 gallons

    Propane = 60# in 6 months

    Rough Estimate gasoline used (outboard and generator) = 30 gallons

=== Full Trip - March 2010 - June 2012

760 days aboard

9273 nautical miles (10664 statute)

1684 total engine hours

782 gallons diesel burned

A meaningless but interesting stat: 13.6 miles per gallon