Gas
 

Hi guys, how many people use gas cans to fill their boats or do you use the marina's gas?

Thanks, Michael

you should be using non ethanol marina gas. if I were at a level the I coud actually use gas cans the few dollars saved would not be worth the hassle or the risk. since I have a two hundred fifty gallon tank theres no way it would ever be feasable.

I keep my Scarab in the water sometimes and I did have a thought about converting a 21 foot Galaxie I also have into sort of a fuel barge. was gonna convert it to an outboard boat and set a three hundred gallon tank under the floor and set up a fuel transfer system. figured I could just fill it, launch it at my marina and raft it off the Scarab and transfer away :D . . . . I weighed out the risks and figured it wasnt worth it either for a myriad of reasons.

You better have some big gas cans...

my boat holds 300+ gallons of diesel no cans for me

I've got two 30 gallon gas caddies that I used the last few seasons but pretty much given up on. It's a lot of work, loading up the caddies, driving to the gas station (10 mile minimun trip up here) pump shuts off every 75 bucks.. drive home, unloading a 30 gallon caddy by yourself is a feat and waiting forever for the things to gravity drain. It takes about 2 hrs of my time for only 60 gallons. Just decided to pay marina price and enjoy the boat.

It is written into my slip lease that we are not allowed to fuel our boats in our slips and if caught your lease will be terminated. That is why a lot of us that can trailer out boats pull to the local station 10 miles away when the marina gets stupid and wants a $1/gal more for there fuel than what the road stations are charging.

Marina gas or sometimes I have a tanker come by the house if i need more than a 100 gals it's no more expensive, running about $4.80/gal for 90 octane now.

2 local gas stations here in Jupiter just started selling non-ethanol fuel at the pump. It is about 40 cents a gallon more than 87 making non-ethanol about $4.05. The station that is on the eastbound (towards the ramp) is very tight (unless you are there when the place is empty, you aren't pulling a truck/trailer through there) and the one with great access is on the westbound side causing a trip around the block to get back to the ramp. It would be ideal if they had success with non-ethanol and other stations stocked it since Jupiter has 6 ramps in one park that could handle a couple hundred boats at once.

I use a 50 gal transfer tank with a 12 volt pump in the back of my truck. It's hard to find non-ethanol fuel around here but I currently have a source that is working well. When at loto I just buy marina gas which is non ethanol. My transfer tank is built on skids so I can just fork it out of the back of my truck when i'm done using it. I use it to fill up basically everything that has a carb on it, much easier than cans with the exception of the 2 smoke stuff.

Funny gas story....

My buddy had a T/S TG and kept it on a lift (no trailer). It would irk him to pay the nearby marina the extra dollar a gallon so he would fill 50 gallon drums in the back of a pickup and drive it home 1-2 miles then he had 150 ft of garden hose to gravity fill the boat. As if a collision risk wasn't bad enough, the risk of torching yourself and/or the boat was simply not worth the savings. He did it for a summer and then came to his senses........worst part was he had the money just too cheap to spend it! 5 minutes in a burn ward wouldn't be worth $10,000 in fuel savings.