Aux fuel tank proposal from another BB

[Mark.Wilme]

There is a guy on another forum I participate in that is proposing adding plastic jerry cans below deck with a 12v pump to transfer fuel from there to his main tank (see post below)

I decided that 138 liters of fuel were not enough, on the other hand I decided that both the port and starboard aft lazarettes are too deep to be practical. I then fitted two fiberglass custom made trays to hold two 62 liters plastic fuel tanks. Sophie II is a two cabin version and you can see a view of the bottom part of the two lazarettes in a picture taken from the aft cabin through the openings that were cut the back wooden wall. As you see from the pictures (from above) there is still a lot of room left to pile up stuff. I have fitted a new fuel hose next to the original one on the deck. The hose serves both extra tanks just by a 2" tee connection.The overflow pipes are also teed together. The extra tanks fill the main tank by a small 12 V. pump connected to both of them through a valve that switches between them.A simple switch will start the pump that has a capacity of about 15 liters/minute (about 4 minutes to unload one into the main tank). This is not a very expensive solution (about 6-700 euros for the material without counting my work) and almost doubled my fuel capacity. Hope this is useful to some of you.

I am finding it difficult to determine whether this is in fact an OK thing to do, or not....

[Tim]

Well, I don't know, since there isn't enough detail to truly tell much about the setup in either the description or the photo. I have to assume it's diesel we're talking about here, despite the red tanks.

However, the boat's clearly in Europe, and there may be a different set of installation standards over there. It wouldn't make sense to attempt to apply ABYC recommendations to this particular installation anyway.

[Al]

At 600-700 Euros ($700-800) for the set-up, those aren't jerry cans as we know them.