T&T: Heeling and fuel tank crossover

[Keith]

No reason. I always keep one of my tanks turned off, so that prevents the
flow from one tank to another. With that crossover line open, you'll begin
to list, and it'll keep going as you roll further over, more fuel will flow
that way. If you don't want to close the bottom tank valve, a ball valve
that would shut off that crossover line would work fine. 




Keith
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Is there a reason to always have a way for one tank to equalize with the
other.  Obviously when I am heeled the fuel does not flow back 'uphill"  so
perhaps the liquid level is even but the boat surely is not.  Whether it is
a load distribution problem or perhaps one tank is physically just an inch
or two higher than the other one I do not know.

It seems to me that putting a shut off valve in the crossover line would
work.

What say you experts?

Thanks

Stephen Starling
KK42