Thread: fuel depot?
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Old 12-07-07, 04:35 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by She-Wolf
hello bootmates, there is a cloud on my horizon in that I have been told to go to D61 ( I think), which is somewhere around Madagascar - is that right? - and I am based at Wilhelmshaven ( or Vilhelmshaben as 'im in the next chair insists). Thing is, I am still in the English Channel, not long passed Cherbourg, and already my fuel is down to half. My strategy is to surface at night to recharge and run lickety split until first light on the surface as I surely dare not poke my snout up in the day. Perhaps I have used up too much fuel because I have been going flat out, dunno - but I can't see how I am going to have enough juice left for the return journey, so I wondered.... is there anywhere I can tank up??
Stop running flat out. Flank speed is meant to be used for just that. Going to 1/3 will extend your range over 250%.
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