East Coast Diesel Prices?

Current price at Tollesbury is 65p per litre before tax. Equates to 86p per litre on a 60/40 split.
 
If you buy a lot, you will get discount from Fox's (and several other sources, Shotley being one). It doesn't hurt to ask.
That's good for us as we bought around 700 (yep 700 /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif) litres a day or so before the tax change in October.
We generally fill at Fox's because of the cleanliness of their diesel. There are too many horror stories from other owners of muck and water in diesel from other places and I kind of assume they have a lot of throughput as new Oysters will fill there.
 
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The rumour here is that it is £1.18 pr litre in Bradwell. Definitely unsubstantiated. Roger can you substantiate?

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It will be, but then they apply the magic tax formula which brings it down to something less unreasonable.
But you have to declare a heater on your boat.
 
I believe that you can claim domestic use even if you don't have a heater.
You use the main engine to generate electricity for domestic use, do you not?
 
I believe you can say whatever proportion you like. I heard of one boat recently putting 1000 litres in and saying it's all domestic! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif The marina seem to have to take whatever you declare as being the truth. It could be a problem if UK Customs come sniffing around though as you will need to prove things to them.
Our split is easy enough to calculate because other than on long trips, we use the port side tank for the heater and generator only and the stbd one for propulsion. We can't do that if we use the engine on long trips as we need to switch to the port one to balance the weight but then we note the switch over in the log.
(Oh and we don't have a connection between tanks).
 
It may be possible to argue that all the diesel is used for domestic purposes. We came across a French yacht mid Atlantic that had run out of cooking gas, were cooking their food by running the engine and wrapping the food in silver foil and placing it on the hot engine until it was ready to eat.

Stick a mackeral in a bit of cling film on the engine and you are cooking, the boat just happens to be moving as a by product.
 
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May I add my ten peneth...

The nice people at the collecting office are actually not too interested in the small additional funds gained from us. the cost of checking will exceed income!
they set the 60/40 (without us having to actually prove it!) as it is being SEEN to do something as far as the EC are concerned ....who are the ones responsible.

If some prat wants to claim 100% and is cheating he may eventually get caught but all of us that are being sensible only have to worry about our foreign trips and make sure we have receipts....oops just realised I filled up before I went to Oostende and "put it on my account" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

If too many people start abusing the system we will ALL have to cough up full wack....
lets leave the twits that cant see we have a good deal to their own end and leave this alone.....its a damned good deal...ok I am a mobo and WOULD think that....but its better than the other option.
 
On a general costing point...

since i have been in the Orwell i have regularly phoned around ALL fuel stations when i want fuel as i can need up to 400 litres at a time.....

Shotley has always been cheapest!
perhaps only by 1 or 2 pennies....
but its a bugger for me locking in and out when single handed.
I have to say the dirty fuel place described above has mostly been the most expensive /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif and I have had fuel from there in the past!
 
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