Update and answers,
We have decide to ship from Palma to Antigua where we will continue the journey to Panama and up the west coast.
Read through some very good points and questions, I’ll try to answer a few.
First off we have done a sea trial across the Mediterranean as we started in Montenegro and are only 19 hrs to Gibraltar. On our various legs we did play around with the rpm’s and fuel consumption, even got to try different weather conditions and running on 1 engine. Best fuel was 6.7gph @ 850rpm with an average 7.2kts, Sea conditions were as flat as they get.
Currently we are in Almerimar, Spain and the winter winds have settled in but still have to backtrack 44hrs to Mallorca to meet the ship on the 14th with no weather window in sight. Still have a week to watch weather and it seems like it will be out of the west, will try hugging the coastline as much as we can.
Thanks for the comments on the thread.