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Old 01-26-2011, 07:02 AM   #18
Egregious
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City: Sunset Beach, NC
Vessel Name: Polly P.
Vessel Model: Monk 36
Join Date: Feb 2010
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RE: Mindless meaderings

Mine are all labeled/engraved as well, but I still like the idea of color coding.* Like the way it is easier to read an analog clock than a digital one.* My brain understands a symbol faster than text.* On my boat the fresh water is all the way aft and diesel/waste amidships.* About the only way to screw up would be to pump diesel into the holding tank.

That said for me the greater fear is the dock attendant handing me the wrong fuel, and me mindlessly filling up.* More than once I've been about 50 gallons into a fill-up, and a wave of fear comes over me as*I asked the attendant, "This IS diesel, right?"* You can pump gas into a diesel tank but not vice-versa since the nozzle would be too big.*

Yeah I know, gas smells and looks different, and diesel should have a green handle...* But still.

Once chartered a boat that the previous charter had pumped some diesel into the fresh water.* Not good, and I'll never charter from that outfit again.
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