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Petrol Update
Now I have had advice from the RYA legal department.
The RYA Guidance Notes are at:
I have now spoken to someone in the RYA legal department and they confirm the following:
- Different regulations apply to transport of petrol in a car if the fuel is going to kept in the car or if it is being transported for use elsewhere… such as on a boat.
The following applies to me in that petrol will be transported in a car from a garage to the boat and then immediately transferred onto the boat and NOT stored in the car or elsewhere.
- Largest metal container - 23ltr, must be fit for purpose and appropriately marked
- Can use a purpose-made, proprietory, plastic outboatd fuel tank - Max 30ltr
- There may be local restrictions so I must check with each garage prior to departure
- There should be a suitable (powder or foam) 2kg extinguisher in the car and the driver (or other occupant - i.e. ME!) properly trained and able to handle any incident.
- On the boat I can have a full main tank, a full aux tank providing it is connected to the engine AND a second aux tank, up to 30ltr not connected to the engine.
On that basis I can take just 2 x 30ltr outboard tanks, one permanently connected. This will give me:
- Main: 136 ltr
- Aux 1 30 ltr
- Aux 2 30 ltr
Or a total of 196 ltr
Ideally I would devize a sensible and safe way to permanently attach two of these together to the engine so that I could then carry a third and that would give me 226 ltr on board and a better way to refuel as I could then carry all three to the garage and get 90 ltr in one car trip.
If anyone has an idea how to connect two outboard fuel tanks to a single engine please let me know.
