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In article ,
says...

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:31:23 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/17/13 4:18 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:59:57 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

"a whole tank of gas"??
I wish I only used that much since is costs 1.33 per liter right now and the inboard tank holds 60 liters.
I realize you are trying to make a funny but you'd best stick with your day job.....oh wait..you don't have one.

I would drain that tank and use it in my car.

It is a lot easier to deal with a few CCs of condensation in the tank
than $60-70 worth of stale gas.
As dry as it is in the winter, you might not even have that.

Most small boats I have seen lately with built in fuel tanks don't have
drains. You'd have to pump or siphon it out somehow, and that's not a
fun thing to do with gallons of gasoline.

Why? It goes pretty fast if the tank is significantly higher than the
receiving can.
60 liters is less than 16 gallons.

Hell, we had a flood and our house was on a 150 year old rock wall root
cellar. The cellar filled up with water, which by the way after leaching
through the gravel/sand makeup of the soils, and going through the rock
walls, was pristine clear! Anyway, I ran two garden hoses up out of the
basement (probably about an 8 foot lift, and down to the creek and
siphoned the basement out! It took a week with two siphons plus the
lowering water table and water leaching back out.