Help! Fuel tank removal

[Ross D]

Has anyone ever taken the fuel tank out of an Ablin Vega? If so how is it done, I think it lifts out of the access hole in the main cabin but I am not sure.

I have to take it out asap because the bilge pump has failed and everything is tucked away in a bilge well below the tank.

Ross

 

[Spyro]

Has anyone ever taken the fuel tank out of an Ablin Vega? If so how is it done, I think it lifts out of the access hole in the main cabin but I am not sure.

I have to take it out asap because the bilge pump has failed and everything is tucked away in a bilge well below the tank.

Ross

Could you just fit a new bige pump somewhere else?

 

[Ross D]

Unfortunately no, the fuel tank is in the keel and the bilge well is below the tank. The rest of the boat is pretty well flat and everything is designed to drain to below the tank.

I am hoping to arrange it so I can pull out the pump and float switch to clean them without removing the tank in future but for now it has to come out.

Ross