Searching for "E"

[oldbluesplayer]

Well, finally got my boat in the water this past weekend, after rebuilding the trailer hubs, redoing the floors, and doing a bunch of teak work, not to mention sweating over all the E-10 scare stories.

So I decided to not add any gas, and take a portable 6 gal tank along, the plan was to run the indicated 1/4 tank of last years gas out, then switch over and head home - obviously meaning I was not going too far - but there's plenty of good fishing just 15 min down the coast from Hampton, near the mouth of the Merrimac.

So we ran, and trolled, and ran, and trolled, and trolled, and trolled, and then proceeded to troll our way back home, and then just ran around a bit outside Hampton, and then finally, reading something like 1/8, or more, of a tank, -below - "E", I went ahead and switched over to the spare tank before heading in.

Damn - it looks like, between the lower peg of the guage, and "E", is about the space of a 1/4 tank, and it seems to read all the way down there. Ended up with four hours of running, starting at 1/4 tank, and never ran out - I wonder if the top 3/4 on the guage is really only 1/2 or less of the tank ?

didn't catch anything, but it's nice to know that "E" isn't really Empty.

Bill