I have a puzzle. I was on my way to fill up last
trip out for a nice weekend rendezvous with out
club when I ran out of fuel. Fortunately, I was
close enough to our club in the inner harbor. I
dropped the dinghy and ran to shore to get a
gerry can of diesel. When I finally got to the
gas
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This year my tank started to fill rather slowly.
Trying to fill faster resulted in fuel backing
up in the hose. I haven?t gotten to it y
Tom,
When I put fuel into the Enterprise (insert dilithium crystal / antimatter joke
here), I often have to go very slow as the fill will back up if I go quickly,
giving me a false impression that the tank was full. Could that be it?
Also, is there any chance that the boat has a bit of a heel w
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 Muckley
S/V Sea Hawk
1989 C&C 37+
Solomons
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 fa
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
This year my tank started to fill rather slowly. Trying to fill faster resulted
in fuel backing up in the hose. I haven’t gotten to it yet but I’ll replace the
fill and vent hoses to see if that cures it.
Al Liles
SV Elendil
C&C 37/40
Vancouver BC
> On Oct 30, 2019, at 1:37 PM, Ken Heaton vi
The inner and outer liners of fill hose on Touche' when I bought it were
separated. The outer liner was bulged out. Could be just as true that
your inner liner is bulged inward.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 5:05 PM Alan Liles via CnC-List <
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Hi Tom,
Is it possible that the tank has a few gallons of microbial growth
(bacterial and fungus) that gas created clumps/sludge on the bottom of the
tank taking up good fuel space?
Be careful using a bio ide, as a friend told me he did this and a few weeks
later while returning through Active
