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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 08:46:29 EST
writes:
A couple of hours later I smelled diesel...it had expanded
and was coming out of the fuel gage port and into the bilge
Comment: I previously posted about awakening one morning and finding 55
gallons of diesel fuel in my bilge. An engine fuel supply line, flexible neoprene
or similar on the outside, hanging in bilge water, and the inner metal
reinforcing webbing had all eaten through over 28 years...
After that I installed bilge alarms in all bilge compartments. In the spill
case, I moved a bilge pump to the flooded compartment, and used it to
repeatedly fill a five gallon pail. (This is a spare I carry to initiate oil changes.)
It's ignition protected, so I figured it was safe.
I put the pump in a shallow area to get fuel rather than water (fuel floats)
and returned the first few pail fulls to my tank. The last half or so of the
fuel I transferred to a 55 gallon drum provided by the Provincetown (Cape Cod,
Mass) Harbormaster. They let me tie up at a commercial fish dock while doing
this.
First and only question: "Did any fuel get overboard?" No follow up, no
inspection, no guidance.
A local fuel supplier, who recycles diesel, picked up the fuel....I forget
the bill, but it was no more than $100..details are in the T&T archives
somewhere...
For those who travel much, a spare bilge pump, hose and wire can be a real
asset in such circumstances. .
Rob Brueckner
1972 Hatteras Yachtfisherman
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