would like to know the nautical miles from sydney to vancouver via tahitti and fuel required for deisel engine

Question

41ft sailing boat with deisel engine..going from sydney to vancouver

Answer 1

it's 8200 statute or 6970 nautical miles Sydney to Tahiti to Vancouver.....the typical 41 foot sailboat engine I've seen in 30 years in the Caribbean.Perkins 4-107, Volvo MD-3, Yanmar etc is going to burn a half gallon for 7 miles.....so 500 gallons would be a conservative estimate.

It's even way worse than that, for Sydney to Tahiti is up wind into the teeth of the SE trades all 4,982 miles.....you'll be lucky to make good 4 knots for that 1/2 gallon.so that 500 gallons MIGHT get you there......and you don't have the tankage to get you to Samoa, let alone Tahiti......and God knows where you'd find fuel between Samoa and the Society Islands

people have been doing Trans Pacs for 50 plus years now, but FROM Tahiti to Sydney.....

now, if you want to go from Sydney to Vancouver in your 41 footer, that's a very do-able trip......the SE trades up the Equator, Northeat trades or even better the SW Monsoon past the Philippines and China, up to about Japan then the prevailing westerlies across....mostly off the wind the whole way...if you REALLY want to go to Tahiti first, go SE out of Syney to about 35 South, pick up the Roaring 40s, go east of Tahiti, turn left and come up on 'em from the South...then its SE trades to the Equator, NE trades to Hawaii.....just like the ol' Polynesians did....then north to the westerlys and west into Canada......once agian, a do-able trip in a 40 foot boat..do-able beacause you're sailing 99% of the time and only running the engine for battery charge, refrigeration, every now and then thru a calm, to get into harbor,,,,,,without looking at a chart, I'd say the sea miles are about the same

Answer 2

The distance rom Sydney to Vancouver is long. I do not have charts handy. You did not say the size of the engine. The fuel consumption will depend on weather and currents and size of engine. Probably you do not have tankage enough for the whole trip. Plan to refuel in Tahiti, and plan to carry gerry cans of diesel.
Check your charts for nautical miles. Check your engine for normal fuel consumption.

Answer 3

You want me to know the weather and if you can spend more time under sail than motoring? Can't do it.. Heck, you didn't even tell me the size of the deisel. As I count the Nmiles for the trip it's about 8,500.... Jim