The inner and outer liners of fill hose on Touche' when I bought it were
separated.  The outer liner was bulged out.  Could be just as true that
your inner liner is bulged inward.

Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 5:05 PM Alan Liles via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:

> This year my tank started to fill rather slowly. Trying to fill faster
> resulted in fuel backing up in the hose. I haven’t gotten to it yet but
> I’ll replace the fill and vent hoses to see if that cures it.
>
> Al Liles
> SV Elendil
> C&C 37/40
> Vancouver BC
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2019, at 1:37 PM, Ken Heaton via CnC-List <
> cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
>
> The bottom of our tank is not flat, it slopes downhill a bit toward the
> pickup tube at the front so boat trim would have to change a lot to affect
> this (on our 37/40).
>
> I can confirm I have put up to 44 US Gallons in our tank when it was
> completely empty.
>
> On your tank, does your pickup tube end far short of the bottom somehow?
> Ours is quite close to the bottom so we depend on the Racor to separate the
> crap and water out that would be left on the bottom of the tank by a
> shorter pickup tube.
>
> Ken H.
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 16:10, Josh Muckley via CnC-List <
> cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
>
>> The pickup tube is near the forward part of the tank.  Have you done
>> anything to change the pitch of the boat?  If you removed bow weight or
>> added stern weight or both, this could change the pitch such that fuel
>> collects further from the pickup tube.
>>
>> Josh Muckley
>> S/V Sea Hawk
>> 1989 C&C 37+
>> Solomons, MD
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 2:47 PM Tom Buscaglia via CnC-List <
>> cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a puzzle.  I was on my way to fill up last trip out for a nice
>>> weekend rendezvous with out club when I ran out of fuel.  Fortunately, I
>>> was close enough to our club in the inner harbor.  I dropped the dinghy and
>>> ran to shore to get a gerry can of diesel.  When I finally got to the gas
>>> dock in Tacoma she only took 24.5 G of diesel.  I made sure that the filler
>>> tube was open and even intentionally overfilled it to make sure the vent
>>> was clear (than god for my catch can!)  I made sure the tank was topped off.
>>>
>>> I have never trusted by gauge as it would show empty when there was 1/2
>>> a tank left.  I used to chart all time and distance religiously in my old
>>> boat and did the same on Alera initially.  Then I realized that unlike out
>>> old 35 MK1 Alera had a functioning Hobbes meter.  So over the last few
>>> seasons I got lax and instead of copious logging I just take a picture of
>>> the Hobbes meter at every fill up.  Made sense and eliminated the problem
>>> of accounting for sailing time on long runs.  Based on the Hobbes meter
>>> reading from the last fill up the engine ran 26 hrs.  Very consistent with
>>> my established burn rate of 0.9 GpHr.
>>>
>>> I started to suspect that maybe the PO had replaced the original 40G
>>> tank with a smaller one.  However, when I checked my log book I have had
>>> several occasions where the fill up was more than30G..  Not many, but more
>>> than one or two over the 25G mark.
>>>
>>> The rancor is clean and aside from need to bleed the system down to the
>>> injectors to get her started after the stall out, no air leaks in the fuel
>>> system.  Motoring in flat seas, so sloshing fuel is not it either.
>>>
>>> Have at it C&C sleuths...I am at a loss.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom B
>>>
>>> .¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤.
>>> Tom & Lynn Buscaglia
>>> SV Alera
>>> C&C 37+/40
>>> Vashon Island WA
>>> (206) 463-9200
>>> www.sv-alera.com
>>>
>>>
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>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 2:47 PM Tom Buscaglia via CnC-List <
>> cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a puzzle.  I was on my way to fill up last trip out for a nice
>>> weekend rendezvous with out club when I ran out of fuel.  Fortunately, I
>>> was close enough to our club in the inner harbor.  I dropped the dinghy and
>>> ran to shore to get a gerry can of diesel.  When I finally got to the gas
>>> dock in Tacoma she only took 24.5 G of diesel.  I made sure that the filler
>>> tube was open and even intentionally overfilled it to make sure the vent
>>> was clear (than god for my catch can!)  I made sure the tank was topped off.
>>>
>>> I have never trusted by gauge as it would show empty when there was 1/2
>>> a tank left.  I used to chart all time and distance religiously in my old
>>> boat and did the same on Alera initially.  Then I realized that unlike out
>>> old 35 MK1 Alera had a functioning Hobbes meter.  So over the last few
>>> seasons I got lax and instead of copious logging I just take a picture of
>>> the Hobbes meter at every fill up.  Made sense and eliminated the problem
>>> of accounting for sailing time on long runs.  Based on the Hobbes meter
>>> reading from the last fill up the engine ran 26 hrs.  Very consistent with
>>> my established burn rate of 0.9 GpHr.
>>>
>>> I started to suspect that maybe the PO had replaced the original 40G
>>> tank with a smaller one.  However, when I checked my log book I have had
>>> several occasions where the fill up was more than30G..  Not many, but more
>>> than one or two over the 25G mark.
>>>
>>> The rancor is clean and aside from need to bleed the system down to the
>>> injectors to get her started after the stall out, no air leaks in the fuel
>>> system.  Motoring in flat seas, so sloshing fuel is not it either.
>>>
>>> Have at it C&C sleuths...I am at a loss.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom B
>>>
>>> .¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤¤º°`°º¤,¸¸,¤º°`°º¤.
>>> Tom & Lynn Buscaglia
>>> SV Alera
>>> C&C 37+/40
>>> Vashon Island WA
>>> (206) 463-9200
>>> www.sv-alera.com
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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