On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:19:07 -0500, (Geoff Miller)
wrote:



Larry writes:

Watching jetskiiers refuel several times on saturday from jugs,
it's amazing more haven't exploded in flames....(c;


The fuel tanks on most, if not all, boats are farther from their
engines than the fuel tanks on jetskis are, simply by virtue o
the fact that most boats are bigger than jetskis if nothing else.

A few summers ago I rented a 40-foot houseboat on Lake Sonoma in
the wine country of Northern California. There'd been an incident
a year or two previously where a kid swimming near the dock had
been electrocuted by straw current, so the "solution" was to cut
off all electricity to the dock. As a result, the houseboat-
rental guys had to refuel their boats from jugs.

Wine jugs?

--Vic

Vic Smith writes:

: As a result, the houseboat-rental guys had to refuel
: their boats from jugs.

Wine jugs?


Chianti.



Geoff

--
"What do you suppose the waiter will do when you tell him his
Chianti tastes as though a platoon of Togolese askari have
used it to wash their pits before straining it back into the
bottle through a freshly skinned civet's rectum?" -- AA Gill