GL: Don't try this at home (Item 1)

[Jeremy Bell]

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
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