I know someone who made a similar mistake once. Or claimed to have.
Hold muh beer ... I’m going to light a match to see if I can find the fuel door.
As an avid boater, boat repairman and been around boats all my adult life, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid some people are and shouldn’t even be allowed around a boat.
Presumably before he spent his time pumping gasoline into his fishing rod hole he had already spent some time pumping beer into his piehole.
I feel sorry for this guy’s wife.
“Marina employees said it’s not uncommon to see boaters pump fuel into fishing rod holders because the holder is often close to the fuel tank hole.”
I don’t believe that.
Good time to light a cigarette...he coulda made the evening news
The marinas in my area are all full-service (usually with really good-looking high school and college girls in bikinis pumping the gas) so they’d be liable for spills, I’d imagine. With the way prices are going I’ll probably just trailer mine to a gas station and fill up there this summer.
HA! Just watching a public boat launch can be entertaining. I know of a tiki bar that overlooks one. At the end of the day after a fishing tourney, it's a great place to watch, some appear drunk, some inept, some fly in and out with expert precision, which is fun to watch too. You always want to be on your A game when your launching or returning there, since you're "on stage."
“Not uncommon”?
Maybe only in Florida it’s not uncommon.
I wanna know how big this boat was. I would have started noticing something was wrong right about 10 gallons. That is of course first assuming I was stupid enough to confuse my rod holder with the gas tank...
No one said it....?
What a Dinghy.
Got a call from a place in Germany about an incident. Seems a sergeant was called to refuel a generator at the end of the runway and he got out there, looked about and saw something that looked like a big container with a spout through the top.
He pumped about the same (100 G) through it until he discovered that he'd really been filling up a portable, end-of -runway control tower that is used sometimes by flight commanders who evaluate their pilots on takeoff's etc. and the 'spout' was a hole through which a waveoff flare could be fired.
Next morning after I briefed this to the General, he said "Get me than man's name ---I already know his rank".
I know a fuel oil company that ended up buying a woman’s house after it pumped 100 gallons of fuel oil into her basement. They were at the wrong address and this lady had her oil furnace replaced with a gas one a few years earlier. The oil filler stem was beside the house and was not sealed.
The address was the same and the road name was one letter different in spelling from where the oil was supposed to be delivered.
To this day I'm sure why he disconnected it.
The result was about two gallons of gas before I heard something funny, the boat stank for a year.
His name is Ron so we referred to the boat henceforth as the ExRon Valdez.
I’ve heard claims of a heating fuel delivery man putting the fuel oil down the water well instead of in a below grade storage tank.
Actually if the guy wasnt paying attention and spun off the filler cap and then put in the nozzel and the rod holder was that close its concevable but still frigen stupid...Id like to know what boat mfgr let that design go through as it had to be an in hull rod holder.
His wife was also very disappointed on their wedding night.
To me this sounds like a major design flaw. A cheap neck and cap would fix it.