monday report

[carl schenk]

Too nice of an evening to stay indoors without air conditioning so I decided to hit the river for a few hours.  Wound up staying until the sky was getting light in the east and the 3 gallon gas tank was getting light.  Caught a 40" fish for my effort.  Moss still very manageable but it was worse than last week.  Not even enough breeze to keep the bugs off.  I suppose I should get a larger tank.  Hard to leave so close to dawn.

[John Jarosz]

 Carl...you might want to think about NOT getting a larger tank, but getting two, three gallon tanks instead.  If you're set on a six gal, I have a fairly new plastic six gallon that I don't use.  It has a Yamaha fitting on it & I'll let go for a real good price. 

I ended up getting another 3 gallon tank, so now I run two, three gallon tanks.  When one runs low, I'll switch & refill the empty one.  With the ethanol gas the way it is, having two, three gallon tanks makes for a higher turnover of gas & keeps the gas fresher than waiting to run thru six gallons of gas before getting fresh gas.  I'm running a Yamaha 40 hp 4 stroke, don't have any gas probs & have never run low.

Oh, and many thanks for volunteering for the Kid's Derby.  You da' man!  Thanks again.  It's much appreciated.

[carl schenk]

I've been spending a little more and using non-ethanol gas.  Same thing for my lawnmower, weedwacker and snowblower.  I will probably use a cut off old fuel line to pump gas from a 2 gallon gas can into the boats' three gallon tank while on the water.

[John Jarosz]

Carl...yeah, that fuel line with bulb (no fittings) has always worked great for me.  matter of fact, I used it this morning to transfer the little bit I had in one 3 gal tank into the other.

The 40 hp Yamaha I have recommends non-ethanol & so does my 6 horse kicker.  Been buying it at the Noco on Rte 5 across the steel plant.  I ha ve one complaint with hard starting my lawnmower.  Went back to regular & the prob went away.