My pick-up tube had a screen near its end near the tank bottom. This screen got plugged up with ‘stuff’ after a few years of boat ownership and it cost me a weekend in a yard and a few boat bucks before the yard realized it was there. Of course before they knew of its existence they had swapped out most of the fuel system and attempted to deliver the boat to me when it lost power again. That is when they found the screen! Cut the POS away and problem was eliminated—who knew!! Might be worth a look on your boat—don’t think you can see it or do anything about it (if it’s there) without removing the pick-up tube from the tank. Charlie NelsonWater Phantom
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, Ken Heaton via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: The bottom of our tank is not flat, it slopes downhill a bit toward the pickup tube at the front so boat trim would have to change a lot to affect this (on our 37/40). I can confirm I have put up to 44 US Gallons in our tank when it was completely empty. On your tank, does your pickup tube end far short of the bottom somehow? Ours is quite close to the bottom so we depend on the Racor to separate the crap and water out that would be left on the bottom of the tank by a shorter pickup tube. Ken H. On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 16:10, Josh Muckley via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: The pickup tube is near the forward part of the tank. Have you done anything to change the pitch of the boat? If you removed bow weight or added stern weight or both, this could change the pitch such that fuel collects further from the pickup tube. Josh MuckleyS/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+Solomons, MD On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 2:47 PM Tom Buscaglia via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: I have a puzzle. I was on my way to fill up last tripout for a nice weekend rendezvous with out club when I ran out offuel. Fortunately, I was close enough to our club in the innerharbor. I dropped the dinghy and ran to shore to get a gerry can ofdiesel. When I finally got to the gas dock in Tacoma she only took24.5 G of diesel. I made sure that the filler tube was open andeven intentionally overfilled it to make sure the vent was clear (thangod for my catch can!) I made sure the tank was toppedoff. I have never trusted by gauge as it would show empty when there was 1/2 atank left. I used to chart all time and distance religiously in myold boat and did the same on Alera initially. Then I realized thatunlike out old 35 MK1 Alera had a functioning Hobbes meter. So overthe last few seasons I got lax and instead of copious logging I just takea picture of the Hobbes meter at every fill up. Made sense andeliminated the problem of accounting for sailing time on long runs. Based on the Hobbes meter reading from the last fill up the engine ran 26hrs. Very consistent with my established burn rate of 0.9 GpHr. I started to suspect that maybe the PO had replaced the original 40G tankwith a smaller one. However, when I checked my log book I have hadseveral occasions where the fill up was more than30G.. Not many,but more than one or two over the 25G mark. The rancor is clean and aside from need to bleed the system down to theinjectors to get her started after the stall out, no air leaks in thefuel system. Motoring in flat seas, so sloshing fuel is not iteither. Have at it C&C sleuths...I am at a loss. Tom B .¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤. Tom & Lynn Buscaglia SV Alera C&C 37+/40 Vashon Island WA (206) 463-9200 www.sv-alera.com _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 2:47 PM Tom Buscaglia via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: I have a puzzle. I was on my way to fill up last tripout for a nice weekend rendezvous with out club when I ran out offuel. Fortunately, I was close enough to our club in the innerharbor. I dropped the dinghy and ran to shore to get a gerry can ofdiesel. When I finally got to the gas dock in Tacoma she only took24.5 G of diesel. I made sure that the filler tube was open andeven intentionally overfilled it to make sure the vent was clear (thangod for my catch can!) I made sure the tank was toppedoff. I have never trusted by gauge as it would show empty when there was 1/2 atank left. I used to chart all time and distance religiously in myold boat and did the same on Alera initially. Then I realized thatunlike out old 35 MK1 Alera had a functioning Hobbes meter. So overthe last few seasons I got lax and instead of copious logging I just takea picture of the Hobbes meter at every fill up. Made sense andeliminated the problem of accounting for sailing time on long runs. Based on the Hobbes meter reading from the last fill up the engine ran 26hrs. Very consistent with my established burn rate of 0.9 GpHr. I started to suspect that maybe the PO had replaced the original 40G tankwith a smaller one. However, when I checked my log book I have hadseveral occasions where the fill up was more than30G.. Not many,but more than one or two over the 25G mark. The rancor is clean and aside from need to bleed the system down to theinjectors to get her started after the stall out, no air leaks in thefuel system. Motoring in flat seas, so sloshing fuel is not iteither. Have at it C&C sleuths...I am at a loss. Tom B .¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤. Tom & Lynn Buscaglia SV Alera C&C 37+/40 Vashon Island WA (206) 463-9200 www.sv-alera.com _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. 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