What is up with the estimated range based on existing fuel and speed?

Quillan · 03-01-08, 12:01 AM

Trigger Maru changes the default speeds, right? I was using ROW before I installed TM so I'm not certain. Assuming it does, that puts you going roughly 8.5 knots on the surface assuming calm conditions and 1.8 or so knots submerged, right? You should be able to get there on considerably less than that. Admittedly it's a different boat, but in a Balao leaving Midway, sailing west until beyond a 500 nm circle centered on Wake Island, then heading SW to the Luzon Straits, I can get there with roughly 75% diesel remaining. Now, I am running surfaced at Ahead 2/3 almost all the time. I submerge for an hour or so anytime I pick up aircraft, so many days I am on the surface the entire time.

03-01-08, 12:01 AM	#11
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Trigger Maru changes the default speeds, right? I was using ROW before I installed TM so I'm not certain. Assuming it does, that puts you going roughly 8.5 knots on the surface assuming calm conditions and 1.8 or so knots submerged, right? You should be able to get there on considerably less than that. Admittedly it's a different boat, but in a Balao leaving Midway, sailing west until beyond a 500 nm circle centered on Wake Island, then heading SW to the Luzon Straits, I can get there with roughly 75% diesel remaining. Now, I am running surfaced at Ahead 2/3 almost all the time. I submerge for an hour or so anytime I pick up aircraft, so many days I am on the surface the entire time. __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.