The 5 hp Honda outboard on our clubs 23' Hunter was running poorly so
I took it to be serviced. As expected, the shop said it was caused by
water in the fuel from the ethanol. So, I took the full container of
fuel home to see if I could do anything with it.
I poured the fuel into 6 old milk jugs and allowed them to sit
overnight and three of them had drops of water on the bottom in the
morning. I then carefully poured the fuel into a 5 gallon container
leaving enough in each jug to hold the water. I put in fuel
stabilizer and some "water absorber". I plan to use this fuel in my
lawn mower because I can now rebuild its carb in about 15 minutes.
The prob is that most users of the club boat may not know to remove
the fuel line and run it out of fuel and they may not be careful of
where they buy fuel and they buy fuel with ethanol in it.
Not sure how to deal with this prob on a continuing basis because non-
ethanol fuel is hard to get here and I hate to add water absorber not
knowing what others may have added.