Small reserve fuel carrier for dinghy?

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Anyone know of any small petrol safe fuel carriers to provide a topup for the outboard in a dinghy? With a little 2 or 3 HP doing upwards of an hour per litre, I really don't want to lug around a gallon can - a couple of litres in something with a pourer to simplify refill on the move would be ideal. I would use a large Coke bottle plus a funnel, but I guess that the petrol will soon degrade it.
 
I use emptied 1 litre engine oil bottles, nice and thick plastic. I also use a oil/petrol mixing bottle (1 litre), which is yellow that I must have bought for the purpose. I think you refill them so regularly you would chuck something away instinctively before it became a hazard. For robustness the old oil containers get my vote though.
 
How about a cyclist's water bottle? The drinking nipple on the top should let you squirt it straight into the tank without a funnel, even while rocking about. Some of them seem to be made of the same type of plastic as the five-litre fuel cans.

Make sure it's very well labelled though!

Pete
 
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