Red fuel tank

[OceanSprint]

I keep petrol for my outboard in a 25l red plastic fuel tank, lashed permanently on the cockpit seat. It was stored in the cockpit locker, but surveyor noted that the cockpit locker drained into the bilges. My cockpit has a well for an outboard, so is completely self draining.

Question is, will the plastic container deteriorate with weather / UV? Anything better? Or replace it after a period? Can it survive the winter there? I assume petrol will not freeze?

 

[alahol2]

I'd sew up a simple cover from acrylic canvas. UV is bound to degrade the plastic over time.

 

[sailorman]

I'd sew up a simple cover from acrylic canvas. UV is bound to degrade the plastic over time.

how many years will it take.
does the OP have a draining anchor well

 

[alahol2]

how many years will it take.
does the OP have a draining anchor well

Don't know
Fuel line from anchor well to outboard well is going to be well long.

 

[VicS]

I keep petrol for my outboard in a 25l red plastic fuel tank, lashed permanently on the cockpit seat. It was stored in the cockpit locker, but surveyor noted that the cockpit locker drained into the bilges. My cockpit has a well for an outboard, so is completely self draining.

Question is, will the plastic container deteriorate with weather / UV? Anything better? Or replace it after a period? Can it survive the winter there? I assume petrol will not freeze?

If you are storing petrol from one season to the next take it out of the plastic tank and store it in tightly capped metal cans, and only store metal cans that are full.

Aims are to minimise exposure to air and light and prevent loss of lighter fractions. Polythene is permeable to oxygen to some extent ....... maybe sufficiently to affect fuel stored in plastic tanks/cans , or maybe not. I dont know.

During the summer season I put my plastic fuel tank in the locked cockpit locker when not in use, with the vent closed. ( had two fuel tanks and contents stolen before I fitted locks.)

During the winter stored cans are in a shed at the bottom of the garden. Transferred the fuel to my cans earlier this week in fact.

 

[sailorman]

Don't know
Fuel line from anchor well to outboard well is going to be well long.

Ah i thought it was a 5lt can