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I recently completed our 2400 mile trip from San Francisco to La Paz and back. It was an unforgettable journey and my Beneteau 473 performed like a dream. My satisfaction level for this boat has sky rocketed. The only issue I ran into was transmission related, which I blame on the former owner free wheeling the prop while under sail. This was clearly the cause upon inspection of the old transmission components.
Anyway, so now the point of my post. We picked up fuel in Turtle Bay (down and back) and La Paz. The general consensus is that fuel quality is much improved from the past. However, upon inspection of a couple of my 5 gallon fuel jugs, I noticed quite a lot of algea globules floating around. We needed only one fuel filter replacement on the long motor back, and I'm getting set to replace the ones in place now. The motor is purring along and I'm not getting white smoke in the exhaust. So I'm pretty confident that a new filter will keep any particulates out of the engine. However, I'm deeply concerned that algae will now thrive in my tank.
What would you do?
btw, I use the Volvo Penta filters which do not have the glass bottom viewing portal.
Anyway, so now the point of my post. We picked up fuel in Turtle Bay (down and back) and La Paz. The general consensus is that fuel quality is much improved from the past. However, upon inspection of a couple of my 5 gallon fuel jugs, I noticed quite a lot of algea globules floating around. We needed only one fuel filter replacement on the long motor back, and I'm getting set to replace the ones in place now. The motor is purring along and I'm not getting white smoke in the exhaust. So I'm pretty confident that a new filter will keep any particulates out of the engine. However, I'm deeply concerned that algae will now thrive in my tank.
What would you do?
btw, I use the Volvo Penta filters which do not have the glass bottom viewing portal.