"Justin C" wrote in message
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In article s.com,
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

.... nothing worth quoting.

I don't know how it is, but every-so-often WH seems to say something I
think worthwhile. The last time I had to go to Google groups to find the
rest of what was quoted by someone else, and on the strength of it I
removed him from the KF. Oh, what a bad move that was.

Willy, your logic is flawed. It is exactly because Roger sails that he
needs to polish/clean/filter his fuel. If he motored everywhere there'd
be less need because the diesel wouldn't be in his tanks long enough to
grow those organisms.


If he sailed he wouldn't be needing a diesel in the first place. Duh!

If he used his diesel so sparingly as you seem to think he would have no
need of large integrated tankage where the fuel sits and grows crud. A
simple portable six gallon tank would suffice.

Think how it really is absurd to ship 50 or more gallons of diesel "just in
case" and then spend time, money and effort constantly filtering it in order
to keep it usable "just in case." Would it not be ever more so intelligent
to only ship the amount one intends to use plus a small safety factor and
then use it all to avoid all the stupidity of husbanding that which you have
little or no use for?

Look at it this way. If you liked to bake bread aboard would you buy 500
pounds of flour even when you knew you only needed 20 pounds to supply all
your bread needs for the length of your voyage? Would you set up a system so
you could strain the flour through screens each weak to keep the weevils at
bay? No you wouldn't. That would be just plain stupid. Would you brag about
on sailing newsgroups as if it were an intelligent thing to do? I doubt it
because people would quickly point out your folly to you. I am just pointing
out the folly of "fuel polishing" and glamorizing a stupid and unnecessary
activity by calling it something that it isn't.

Sailing is as much about a seamanlike attitude and course of action than it
is about trimming sails. Going on and on about "polishing" fuel as if it
were something to be proud of is indicative of a lubberly attitude combined
with a low IQ.

Wilbur Hubbard