On Mar 28, 11:59*pm, "mgg" wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message

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"mgg" wrote in
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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.

--
"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

All I can say is WOW! I don't feel bad burning 50 gal of gas for a fun
weekend of skiing, wakeboarding, and fishing anymore. Those beasts burn that
much backing out of the dock!

--Mike- Hide quoted text -

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My little Chris Craft with the 140 Mercruiser 4-cyl, will give me a
good day at the lake on 10 gal. That includes tubing the gret nephews
till they can't stand it any longer, too!