"mgg" wrote in
:

10.5 thousand gallons of fuel... holy crap. 40-50 grand just to "fill
her up." How does a boat like that get fueled? Off shore by a tanker??
lol

--Mike



I was stranded a couple of years ago on my friend's Amel Sharki 41 with
a broken Perkins 4-108 full of seawater caused by a yardbird installing
the wrong dripless gland flooding the exhaust system with seawater. I
volunteered to stay aboard and get the engine fixed at Daytona Beach
Marine.

One day this huge jet-powered monster yacht sidled up to the diesel
dock, which was equipped with standard car gas station pumps like your
local Texaco and wanted a "fill up" to its 12,000 gallon tanks that were
nearly empty.

I had befriended most of the marina staff into loaning me the marina van
many times to explore Daytona Beach's old city and go out to eat/shop.
So, I offered to help fuel the beast to let the dock staff attend to the
other guests, their nice store and captain's lounge/laundry.....

Having pumped the marina dry of diesel, a tank truck was hurriedly
called in but couldn't fuel it directly because it only had gravity feed
to the big tanks in the ground. We continued to pump on into the night
FINALLY filling the monster with enough fuel to take him a few miles
away with his FOUR giant waterjet diesels.

The owners were not aboard and the nice Australian captain and crew gave
us the grand tour, including the engine/pump compartments. What a
beautiful piece of ultra-modern marine vessel she is. Sorry I've
forgotten what the name of it was, at the moment. I can tell you where
all the fuel filler caps are located, however.....(c;] We pumped and we
pumped at 4 gals/minute....hee hee.

Master Card, VISA, Carte Blanche or American Express. We could call for
an armored car if you have cash.......or gold bars or certifiable
Rhodium.


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Larry