MoodySabre
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Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 3692
Loc: Bradwell and Leigh-on-Sea
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I bought my boat two seasons ago. Since then the locker has been cluttered up with two things that I would not have bothered with. Am I missing the point?
Water: I'm in a marina and usually marina hop. I always top up before a trip 135 litre tank and carry bottled water for drinking. Why take a plastic jerry can too?
Fuel: 90 litre tank gets me about 50 hours motoring and I top-up when 25 hours have run on the hours meter or sooner if convenient. Why have a 5 litre can full as well?
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oldsaltoz
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Reged: 04/07/2001
Posts: 2624
Loc: Australia, East coast.
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Sounds like you might have more items on board than you need, keeping a light ship can only reduce fuel and water needs because you will make a faster passage.
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Aidy
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Reged: 19/01/2004
Posts: 3613
Loc: La La Land
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I only carry a spare can of diesel when cruising. and i fill up the other side with white so it can go in the car at the end of the cruise  I carry bottled water when racing ! I have empty water tanks
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andy01842
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Reged: 07/06/2003
Posts: 199
Loc: Norfolk
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If ether your main fuel or water tank got contaminated you may be pleased to have a backup. I would think water may not be such a problem but fuel could be.
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Bav34
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Reged: 07/08/2006
Posts: 882
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We are lucky that we can just look at a forecast and decide to go to France ... or Poole ... or I guess anywhere, anytime.
The large locker on our boat has a lifting floor. Underneath it, out of the way, I carry 5 gallons of water and 5 gallons of fuel plus a spare (small) gas bottle. That's in addition to the normal back up spare that is carried too.
I always try to keep the main fuel and water tanks topped up but it's really nice to know that even if they are both half full we can still just take off.
Guess it depends on how much space you have vs. availability vs. where you go.
Not much fresh water in Poole or The Morbihan 
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capnsensible
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Reged: 15/03/2007
Posts: 1217
Loc: Atlantic
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1. You are downwind and downtide of the nearest haven. You have, during the night, run the battery to extinction with the nav lights and have a lobster pot marker firmly attatched to your propellor shaft.
Out comes the spare water bottle and hey presto, morale cuppa served!!
2. you are downwind and downtide of the nearest haven. One of your crew is vommiting for Britain and you want to get in sharpish. You transfer the spare diesel to the tank whilst motoring at max revs!
One learns!!!!!!!
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Captainslarty
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Reged: 12/08/2007
Posts: 2012
Loc: Currently La Coruna Spain
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Why not have individual tanks... with changeover taps...
and, of course a decent watermaker.. and vomitting is NOT a reason to head for the nearest haven...
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Twisterowner
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Reged: 23/07/2005
Posts: 3904
Loc: ally poor
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Do you carry spare diesel and water?
Yes. Along with spare everything else 
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bazonbeleza
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Reged: 19/11/2005
Posts: 719
Loc: faro, portugal, & Liverpool fo...
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we carry a 1500l of diesel in two tanks and 500l of water in one tank plus bottled water for cooking and beverages for each trip.
We seldom have full tanks usually about 1/3 capacity for diesel but full for water. however when we went from liverpool to lagos in a single leg we took another 250l of fuel in jerries in the engine room. we motorsailed all the way and arrived with the jerries untouched.
My point is you take enough with you for any particular trip, and then some spare, if you are only doing short trips then leave the jerries empty.
if you carry it around unused, both water and fuel, it will eventually go stale so use it up and leave em empty till you do a trip that requires extra reserves
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Blueboatman
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Reged: 10/07/2005
Posts: 2232
Loc: London
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I have;
Dismantled the mountings to a poorly installed 20gallon petrol tank in order to tilt it and collect the remaining gallo or so of cruddy fual,filtered it and jerry rigged the outboard (seagull) tank over the engine to get us home,after burning the Seagulls gallon of 10 to 1 2 stroke mix...All because we were too lazy to top off the 2 empty 5 gallonspare cans.
I have been very grateful for spare water when the freshly topped off maintank tasted odd and cloudy
Each to their own. 5 litres of spare fuel and water dont take up that much space,imo.
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