Ease The MainWith Benevento and its crew

Fueling up – Appreciate how easy you have it. Pull your car into the station. Hit the brakes and the car stops where you want it to! Pump, and go. Easy!

On a boat …. forget about it. Bit more involved. Especially when the fuel dock doesn’t float – that is fixed and doesn’t rise and fall with the tide. You have to deploy fender boards. Fenders, for our non-boat friends, are those bumpy things hanging off the side of the boat. However, for the fenders to be effective they need a vertical surface to push against. Sometimes the dock only has round posts supporting it. No bueno; the round fenders just roll off the posts. So you deploy fender boards. They rest horizontally across the fenders and will fend-off the boat from the posts.

As we go further south it will get more interesting. We’ll have to lug our fuel cans to shore by dingy to fill up. Sometimes, the locals will come to you in little boats, barely able to carry the 50 gallon fuel drum. Will send photos when we encounter this.

BTW – Watching Jen scramble up the tires to go pay the fuel bill was quite a sight! Look at the height of the dock – It was about 10 feet above our deck.

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