DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

I think at our Costco it’s $150. And it takes me 3 transactions to fill the truck at current prices. 4 or more when I’m in California… 🐟on

FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana

A rectal cranial inversion was most likely the culprit. 😳🤣

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana

Dude doesn’t know how lucky he was.

Doug Lemmon Loc: Rochester Mills, PA

If he ran THAT much gas inside of the boat...
#1, it should have been running out of the drain hole or #2, if the plug was in, the automatic bilge pump should have been running.. I agree with Fred. Didn't he realize there wasn't a cap on the rod holder?!?!

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Good morning, Four, that is a good one.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

It takes one to know one. I'm referring to myself, not you Steve.

bknecht Loc: Northeast pa

Thanks for the laugh four.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Down at the shore, where fuel docks are common, you hear about one every couple years. Usually the attendant points it out before it gets bad. Up here you are required to pump your own fuel and are responsible to clean-up any overflow or spill. The attendant only hands you the hose, and turns the pump on and off.
61+ gallons is a he!! of a Whoops, especially at around $8.75 a gallon down under.

NoCal Steve Loc: Dunnigan, CA

That's very true Saw... stupidity is a common side effect of good weed.

Bern Loc: SW Florida

I know a fellow on the Chesapeake who put 200 gallons of diesel into his water tank...after which he said: "Oh $#!+, I did it again."

Andy Brach Loc: Daytona Beach, Fl

This happened to a friend of mine. He was going out fishing with a friend in his small inboard cruiser and when he stopped to get gas he told his friend to put the fuel in while he went to the boatdock's office to get something. When he got back he smelled fuel and asked his friend about this. His friend showed him where he put the nozzle, right in a rod holder. If he hadn't smelled the gas in the bilge the boat would have exploded when he hit the starter!

And another instance: pulling into a fuel dock in Ft. Luderdale with a friend in his sailboat, we were out about 100' approaching the dock when a big (50' or so) Chris-Craft that had just fueled up exploded. Flaming bits and pieces of the boat rained down around us and I kicked a few off the foredeck. This was just another example of not running the blower and giving the boat the absolute test for fumes - opening the hatch and taking a good sniff.

Some years later I had a 28' Owens Sultana flybridge-convertible with a single Chevy 283 for power. My wife, her son and her Aunt were up on the flybridge with me while coming up river from a day at Ponce Inlet when I asked my wife to go below and get me a beer. She came back up and told me she smelled gas. I immediately shut down and even before the boat had stopped was down the ladder and opened the deck hatch with the motor below. There was about 5 gallons or more gas in the bilge and I immediately saw the reason,...the fuel line from the gas pump to the carb had cracked open. Anyway, I put everybody on the bow while pouring buckets of water in the bilge that flowed forward to the bilge pump. After patching the broken gas line and when I could no longer smell gas with everybody still on the bow, I stood on the cap rail outside the cabin's lower helm and reached in and with a quick prayer hit the starter. I figured if it blew it would blow them off the bow and me off the side into the water. Anyway it started with no issues and we proceeded up the river to home.

I'd been leery of owning a gas powered inboard and ever since then all my big boats have had diesels.And even with diesels I still run the blower to evacuate any fume build up in the engine compartment while I take a good sniff.

NoCal Steve Loc: Dunnigan, CA

LMAO.

campyboy1

This is why you're told never to leave your vehicle untended when filling up your gas tank I guess they don't have environmental laws in Australia where it's against the law to wash gasoline spill down with water into the drain and pollute the environment and better hope nobody throughs a match or cigarette in the gutter or storm drain then he would have some real trouble.

Steelhead Mickey Loc: NJ

Aww, you guys are being way to hard on Australian boater.
Easy to do if the gas ⛽️ fill on the boat was “down-under” the rod holder…