Ripster
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There used to be marine petrol available (Not MDL as you say) on the harbour wall - all signed. But you had to call a number and someone would come and open up. Has this gone now?
Boat fire in Torquay today - other boats not damaged
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There used to be marine petrol available (Not MDL as you say) on the harbour wall - all signed. But you had to call a number and someone would come and open up. Has this gone now?
rwoofer
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Marina prices are exactly the reason I only ever fill up with 20 litre jerry cans. Are their costs really that much higher? No idea, but if they could drop prices I'm sure they would get a lot more business from petrol powered boaters.
Beyondhelp
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Yep totally. If it was sensible & £2.10 is NOT sensible, then I to wouldn't bother to do it any other way, but when I can easily use 100l in a day, there is no way I'm going to pay an extra £100 in refuelling at a pontoon than it would cost me from a forecourt. I hate if I'm honest refuelling from a jerry can even with jiggle pipes, but I'd hate getting shafted for ££ even more.
ari
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No idea how a marine refueller's outgoings compare with a road petrol station. But think of the incomings. The Shell station on a busy road is pumping fuel almost constantly all day long. Then there's a constant stream of people through the shop buying sweets, drinks, snacks, newspapers, etc etc. So I guess they can afford to make small margins on everything and collect a decent return by the end of the day.
I suspect your average marine petrol seller can go weeks, maybe months, through the winter without selling a drop. Even in the summer there must be days when little or none is sold. He might sell some diesel commercially but that depends very much on location. Yet he's still got to comply with all the regulations and pay normal business costs.
I'm not defending the cost of marine petrol, but I can certainly see why a marine supplier can't operate on anything like the same margins as a busy roadside filling station.
sprocker
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But if he dropped his prices he would get more business though? I guess most people would fill up with Marina petrol if it was the same or even slightly higher than forecourt prices, just to save on the hassle.
ari
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Agree entirely, but I'm still not sure it would have boats queuing up year round.
Lloydroberts
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Where would an insurance company stand if there was a fire following refuelling from a jerrycan in a marina with a fuel berth?
Would they treat it as negligent?
Would they treat it as negligent?
Aardee
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It would be interesting to see if they distinguished between "a fire following refuelling from a jerrycan" and "a fire CAUSED by refuelling from a jerrycan" - It sounds like the fire in Torquay was coincidental to the refuelling rather than caused by it.