Toting gas

[sc8tt]

Do you guys carry gas to your boat ever?
What's your preferred method?
5 gallon cans? If so, do you syphon? Or pour?
Anyone wheel it? If so, which can do you use and what do you think of it?

Getting ready to spend money on transporting gas. What would you do?

[NautiqueJeff]

I have used five gallon and six gallon cans. I siphon it when I carry gas that way.

[swankster]

On exteded lake trips, I use the 5 gal plastic cans and perfer the old style with the vents. IMO the new 'enviromental' style spills more than the old and takes forever to empty. I have two of the old and three of the new and am working on how to put a vent in the new ones.

[Uzj100]

I have this one...

http://www.overtons.com/modperl/prod...4&merchID=4006

I bought a hitch Cargo tray and this thing fits perfectly in it. Never have to carry gas in my vehicle. When I get back home, I stand it up and wheel it down to the dock. So easy.

[jrz1]

You definitely need to check out flofast.com. They have 7.5 and 15 gal jugs which is about the most I can get in/out of my truck or minivan without killing myself. I got 3 of the 15 gal jugs and one hand pump that empties a 15 gal jug in about 3-4 min. I put the 3 in a cheapo garden wagon from Northern Tool and bring down to the edge of the dock where I lift one jug at a time onto a small square furniture dolly to roll it down the dock. The 15 gal jugs I think are $90/ea and the hand pump is $145 so you can get 45 gal of mobile gas transport for just a touch over $400 vs. the 20-25 gal tanks that are avail at overtons or whereever. I think this is a better solution since 20 gal just doesn't go very far with a wakeboard boat and 2 jetskis that all require premium (and I shop for non ethanol). Pays for itself pretty quickly given cost of gas (only midgrade avail on my lake) on the street vs. at the dock.

[ES]

I go the "old fashioned" way: 5 gallon metal cans. I have about 50 steps down to the boathouse and it's pretty easy to carry 2 at the time.
Here is the Lowes link:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_145709-40109...can&facetInfo=
They don't bloat like the plastic ones and I cannot smell the gas when I leave them in the boathouse. Also, the big yellow spout makes it a lot quicker to pour the gas in the tank, compared to the traditional plastic ones.

[AirTool]

If you are filling from the dock, most people I know have built the home-made pvc contraption mounted on the dock and the pour the fuel in there and then there is a hose that goes to the boat. I don't have a pic or drawings. Most of these guys are slalom folks because they run low on gas and add fuel after each set give or take.

[Kmayotte]

6 gallon plastic cans and a magic siphon. Easy to carry and load. One in each hand from driveway to boat. No spilling with the siphon plus you don't have to hold to can as it pours.

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Siphon-H...s=Magic+siphon


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[obd666]

5 gallon cans and my own custom length clear hose for siphon that reduces down on one end to fit into the smaller gas fill. i keep it with my collection of red cans. the only way to go in my mind

On exteded lake trips, I use the 5 gal plastic cans and perfer the old style with the vents. IMO the new 'enviromental' style spills more than the old and takes forever to empty. I have two of the old and three of the new and am working on how to put a vent in the new ones.

i drill a small hole in the top corner of the handle that the gas never gets to. i can't tolerate them not vented ...

[vision]

I have 5 gal containers and siphon the gas.

[biggator]

A wagon with 5 or 6 5-gallon jugs.

1. Sit jug up on boat.
2. Insert length of hose (cut off old garden hose) all the way into jug
3. Hand covering hole.. mouth up to hand.. blow really hard.
4. Let physics do the work

It takes about 3-4mins/can to empty with a garden hose.

[scottb7]

Three 5 gallon plastic jugs with a shaker siphon...

[pSchwade]

maybe its just me - but i've always thought that boat trailers should have an auxiliary fuel tank and small pumping system in them.

[AirTool]

maybe its just me - but i've always thought that boat trailers should have an auxiliary fuel tank and small pumping system in them.

And a soap dispenser to clear the sheen at the ramp after launching and retrieving.

[Miljack]

No gas sold on our lake, so I have a 15 gallon "gas caddy" which is a wheeled upright gravity fed fuel can. I can get 17 gallons in it and can wheel it down a walkway with several stairs on the way down to the lake. Not easy, but doable. On our 230 I bring something for the can to sit on after about half of the fuel in in the boat.
I've had it now over 5 years and it works much better than the typical 5 gallon jugs.