Fuel jugs appear on deck when a cruiser needs the option to motor past his tank capacity. For the 32-3, that's 22 gallons, or 200 miles. The four 5-gallon containers shown roughly double the cruising range to 400 miles or so. They're slippery...
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I wondered how long my temp racks, made of standard ply with drywall screws and house paint, would last. I had to design new ones to fit the E381, and the old ones were still so strong three years later it took a sledge hammer to bust them up.
Yes, the jugs are red, denoting gasoline. Diesel jugs are supposed to be yellow. The material is the same, but you can spare yourself a lot of explaining by following the traditional color code. "Wait, don't you have a diesel on that boat, and yet, and yet...you are using
red cans?"