8-30-06, 15 minutes later.. Before leaving the harbor, we stopped to fill the fuel tanks. Due a miscommunication, the attendant put 6 gallons of gasoline into our diesel tanks before we stopped him. Oh, no! So we had to pump the port tank dry to get rid of the gas. This picture shows the fuel dock owner, Leo, with a world-class Rube Goldberg fuel pumping system. He put a large shop vacuum applying suction on the back of a 5 gallon jerry jug which was in turn attached to the fuel line. Darned if it didn't work. Fortunately there wasn't much fuel in the tank when we started so the whole process only set us back --- 3 hours! Once we were done filling up, we actually left on the adventure. But now we were so late leaving that we couldn't just sail to Monterey as planned. It was getting dark and we had a dinner reservation at the Charthouse with our friend Jeff Martin. So we motored. The dinner was worth it. Monterey was terrific even though we left early in the morning. We regretted not having spent more weekends visiting Monterey.
8-30-06, 15 minutes later.. Before leaving the harbor, we stopped to fill the fuel tanks. Due a miscommunication, the attendant put 6 gallons of gasoline into our diesel tanks before we stopped him. Oh, no! So we had to pump the port tank dry to get rid of the gas. This picture shows the fuel dock owner, Leo, with a world-class Rube Goldberg fuel pumping system. He put a large shop vacuum applying suction on the back of a 5 gallon jerry jug which was in turn attached to the fuel line. Darned if it didn't work. Fortunately there wasn't much fuel in the tank when we started so the whole process only set us back --- 3 hours! Once we were done filling up, we actually left on the adventure. But now we were so late leaving that we couldn't just sail to Monterey as planned. It was getting dark and we had a dinner reservation at the Charthouse with our friend Jeff Martin. So we motored. The dinner was worth it. Monterey was terrific even though we left early in the morning. We regretted not having spent more weekends visiting Monterey. 
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