[Public-List] fuel tank vent

[Mike Lehman]

J
 
You probably read about this from me. I have an outboard 18 gallon saddle tank in my starboard sail locker. The vent is higher that my transom, where the original vent was located and in a bouncing seaway, I would spill fuel out the vent. I removed the stancion nearest the primary winch on the starboard side, drilled a hole large enough so insert a rubber vent hose through and left enough hose outside to reach the top of the stancion and caulked around the hose. I placed the standard vent fitting from the transom in the hose and replaced the stancion. I have never spilled another drop, because the spreaders would need to be in the water before I had enough angle to spill anything. I did this modification 15 years ago and it has worked very well.
 
On your boat the fuel vent is (or originally was) a copper tube loop at the after end of the coaming. I tried that before the 'vent up the stancion' trick but all it did was to spill fuel on the deck, so I quickly aboandoned that idea.
Mike Lehman  ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>  > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:13:50 -0400> From: jbergqui at gmail.com> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org> Subject: [Public-List] fuel tank vent> > Somewhere I have read about running a fuel tank vent up inside a stanchion.> Has anybody done this? What are the details on that? How did you terminate> the vent inside the stanchion? Did you custom-make the fitting, or can you> buy an off the shelf fitting or stanchion which has a vent fitting inside?> > My problem is that my fuel vent is below the filler, so no matter how hard I> try it is bloody difficult to prevent spillage. Basically I have to have a> crew hold a cup and rag over the vent and tell me if any fuel drips out. I> think if I got the vent higher up this problem could be made to go away.> > One other thought is to buy one of those whistle things which you install in> the vent and it stops whistling when the tank is getting full. Or a check> valve or something. There are a number of products out there for this> purpose. Has anybody got any experience with this?> > Also, on the question of vents going up the mast, I was talking with one of> my college classmates about this vent problem last weekend. He is the> project manager for a 44m sailing catamaran (> http://www.catamarans.com/news/2005/08/Gemini.asp) being built at Derecktor> Shipyard in Bridgeport, CT (> http://www.derecktor.com/yachts/shell_yachts.html?../facilities/ct_location.html).> According to him, their fuel tank vents go up the mast. I did not ask where> the head vents go, but I would not be surprised if they aren't vented in the> mast as well.> > Later,> > JB> _______________________________________________> These businesses support your Association:> http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html> Please support them.> _______________________________________________> Public-List mailing list> Public-List at lists.alberg30.org> http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
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