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.

plus the scenery at the marina gaas dock is alot better than on land!

as a former marina owner I always buy my gas at the dock. Not sure about the places you guys are keeping your boats but I was a small business ran by myself and wife, every bit helped.
there is a fuel tax added to marine fuel that goes toward building public access ramps etc that increases the price for marine fuel, at least where I am. we paid about the same as what you would on the street or a bit more.

Not worth the risks.

Being a trailer boater, I try to fill up before I hit the water. That being said, if I'm on the water more than a day at a time, I'll opt for marina gas. Not worth the hassle of pulling out just to save a few bucks. Plus, I know I'm getting non-ethanol at the marina.....

I guess I'm the abby normal 1 :) I have been hauling gas to my docks with (6) 6 gallon jugs for 13 years now.... So I get 36 gallons at a shot, and I usually dump the 36 gallons in the next morning, and go fill the cans again. Plus I can get 93 non-ethanol gas off the water.
Dean

I'm with Dean....I have 5 five gallon cans so I get 25 gal a
Pop. Plus, my engines need 91 and I can't get that on the lake.

I have a 46 gallon fuel tank on an eighteen foot 1988 Donzi. The 454 c.i. motor with modified head work and camshaft really requires ethanol free gas. Our marinas on Lake Washington do not serve ethanol free gas. The closest place for me to obtain the good gas is out in Issaquah ten miles away. I use a 28 gallon fuel caddy. Yes, it is a terrible hassle for me at age 74 to wrestle a full fuel caddy out of the car and onto the dock, but it just has to be done as the boat is on a lift.

I burn through 100-120 gals each time we go out, it would be tough to be hauling that much fuel every weekend, not me.

I have a 30 gallon fuel caddy and went that route... it is a pain in the butt for one guy and 5 gallon jugs is insanity!

***I am pretty sure it is illegal or not allowed at every marina in the country. Same thing at launches.

That being said, it isnt worth the risk let alone it is ethanol based gasoline. At the end of the day, it isnt worth it.

I have 90 non-ethanol delivered, just paid $3.93 a gallon, 87 is $3.60 at the pump here and the closest marine is charging $5.15 right now. It is the best thing ever. Lugging gas cans just doesn't seem worth it. I have filled up at the gas station a few times when the boat was on the trailer and even that is a huge hassle. If you catch a slow pump you can be there pumping for an hour, trying to get the boat and trailer in and out, yahoos making comments and asking you ridiculous questions, etc.

I run 100LL sometimes I trailer it sometimes I use jugs either way to me makes no difference . I fill 16 - 5 gallon jugs at a time when I use jugs .

I built a fuel trailer using a jet ski trailer and a 275 gallon fuel tote. I keep my boat on a lift behind my house so Its easy to do. I pull the trailer to the back with my golf cart & let gravity do the work. With a 1" hose it takes 12 minutes to transfer 120 gallons.

Mitch,
You are leading the 5 gallon jug count as of now, for those of us with the biceps to haul them. :)

Crap, by the time I hauled 16 - 5 gallon jugs to fill up the boat, I'd be to tired to go out in the boat for a week,.

do I every time, except I use 2 55 gal drums and a transfer pump. I trailer my boat and prefer run 93. there is a station that sells 90 non-ethanol but its over .50 more and 20 mins out of the way. plus the station is a little tight especially if there's any traffic

i use the same pump to pump excess fuel out of the boat. i use it up in my truck so we're never burning old fuel, so non-ethanol doesn't really matter.

5 gallon curls :)

I just realized today I was looking at pictures you had posted else where on the Wounded Warriors !

I'm like manure, a little everywhere.