This has got tot be the most easily prevented boating catastrophe ! On our boat, one of the rules is: TWO different people must always confirm the correct fill when adding fuel or water. Jeremy Bell AT34 "Tardis" > Been there, seen that. We get about 5-6 calls a > year to solve that problem and it is not cheap. > Pumping out the tank is the easy part. Getting rid > of the contaminated fuel is the expensive part. One > the fuel is contaminated it has to be disposed of in > a specific manner, usually decreed by the state EPA, > if not by the big EPA. > > When filling our towboats we use a checklist which > provides for both the operator and the gas dispenser > to check off which tank and which hose. We also use > the big red labels made out of plastic which we bond > to the area above the fill(the fumes and fuel can > loosen the bonding material if you allow it). > > Jack TTBG > > -----Original Message----- > From: hangreg@gmail.com > To: AGLCA-2007@googlegroups.com; > great-loop@lists.samurai.com; Krogens@nunas.com > Sent: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 6:26 AM > Subject: GL: Don't try this at home (Item 1) > > > Number one on the list of things that will affect > your boating enjoyment. > > 1) Do not fill your fuel tanks from the water hose. > > > At the dock yesterday I volunteered to help a > cruiser who could not > start one engine. Looking at the Racor, it was > completely full of > water. He had just taken on fuel the day before but > this was too much > water for normal contamination. After puzzling over > this for a while > the older gent realized that the night before he had > taken on water. > Turns out he had topped off his two fuel tanks with > the water hose by > mistake. > -- > Greg and Susan Han > Allegria Krogen Whaleback #16 Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com