Got it down to 15 minutes, including dropping anchor, finding tools, prefilling the new filter with diesel.But the Racor filter can be flicked out in about 60 seconds.
Had to do it yesterday just north of the the Statue of Liberty.
This is the 4th time in the last two weeks - bouncing across the waves must have stirred up a bunch of stuff from the tank bottom and the polisher is only getting the suspended matter; got to find a better way to clean the tank!
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