You are lucky, fuel in the bilge and electronic gizmos like bilge pumps, wiring, etc. equals a potential disaster! Had the same problem in my brother's boat three years ago in the Keys. About the second day we smelled fuel in the morning and as we got in the boat the bilge turned on and pumped out a lot of fuel, nice way to start your morning. As it turned out the leak, the biggest leak anyway, was about 1/3 of the way down the side of the 150 gal center tank. We went and bought a electric fuel pump and pumped all the gas we could into the side tanks. The smell and leaking fuel went away, however it was a smooth $5,000 to replace the tank, ouch!
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08-16-2016, 12:34 PM
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