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Mr. Luddite

On 4/21/2014 3:56 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:50:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, April 21, 2014 12:01:40 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:47:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, April 21, 2014 10:11:36 AM UTC-4, Tim wrote:

Very interesting, Wayne. The only concerned we have about fueling is which gas station has the best price to fill up before we hit the ramp at the lake.

Keeping our boat in a slip takes that opportunity away, so we have to pay the higher marina price for gas. Fortunately, my home marina has one of the best prices on the lake, so that's a plus. It still hurts.

You want to play, you got to pay. :-)

I guess you boys are not ethanolaphobes ;-)

I am the same way. I buy, whatever is the cheapest gas. We do keep it

moving. I worry more about the gas in my truck than the gas in the

boat. I run 50 gallons through the boat for every 10 that go through

the truck I haul it in.

That ends up being about 30-40 days depending on the weather.

Lately it has been so nice we are getting out 4-5 nights a week for an

hour or two..

The marina says their gas is ethanol free. Maybe, maybe not. Except for the "winter" season, we go through a 50 gallon tank every 2-3 weeks. A day of heavy use with a trip to one of the restaurants at the far end of the lake can eat most of that tank. I use a maintenance dose of Marine Stabil all season, with a storage dose in the cool weather. No issues yet.

There is a certain tolerance for some ethanol in gas labeled ethanol
free. I have heard it is up to 5% or so but I assume it is generally
lower.
I do think this ethanol thing has taken on a life of it's own, blaming
every malady on ethanol. They act like nobody ever had a problem with
stale fuel, gummed up carburetors and water in the fuel before.

Bear in mind "dry gas" IS ethanol and we were always told to put some
in the tank every winter as gas line antifreeze.

The initial problems with ethanol wasn't limited to engines or rubber
gas lines. Yellowfin had to recall a bunch of boats because it was
dissolving the resins used in the built-in fiberglass fuel tanks.

The last boat I had (that I bought as a panicked reaction to not having
a boat) was gas powered. The CG approved fuel lines were only a couple
of years old but the survey report said I should change them because
they were not the latest, ethanol rated types. I didn't bother because
I didn't keep the boat for even one full season.