Where do you fill her up with gas? Cans, station or marina?

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Re: Where do you fill her up with gas? Cans, station or marina?

#16 Post by Bamaman » Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:46 am

I use a 14 gallon Gas Buddy rolling tank and two 5 gallon Jerry cans. I lower the boat down some and put the 14 gallon can on a park bench. Gravity fills my boat. I cut off the spigot/hand pump off the hose.
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Re: Where do you fill her up with gas? Cans, station or marina?

#17 Post by Strake » Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:49 pm

I gas up at the marina. We don't have a trailer, and I don't want to deal with hauling 5 gallon jugs down a bunch of stairs.

The marina I have always used is NON ethonol gas and has historically been the least expensive on our lake..... still quite a bit more than the local regular gas stations.
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Re: Where do you fill her up with gas? Cans, station or marina?

#18 Post by Drago » Thu May 03, 2018 11:28 am

Lots of good ideas here. Our cheapest gas is about 10 miles away on south side of lake. Street gas, good prices. Sometime I fill from cans at home, especially when I need gas from the boat for other duties. Only from good cans - kind of pricey but check around - https://www.industrialproducts.com/mate ... -cans.html also look at Uline -- https://www.uline.com/Grp_451/Safety-St ... code=WS792 Also Ebay. I hate those plastic enviro crap gas cans. I've fixed a few but still suck.
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