Rick

Annapolis - expensive.

Anyway, I suggest you remove your tanks and clean it all up and paint
etc - as soon as possible before winter

  - re running the boat, get a five gallon jerry can, drop it in
place where the fuel tank was, and use it as a temporary tank to move
the boat around - no offshore sailing and no heeling over 20 degrees.

Then, make up templates first with poster paper and then with foam
core and hold together with masking tape - then in the meantime you
can shop around for a maker - does not have to be in Annapolis.

When done, you can sketch up a patter or even send the foam core etc
to whomever is making the tank.

If you go stainless, I can recommend a maker in Long Island.

But, the full scale foam core models will help you with all of the
problems of fitting the tank

Remember to anticipate a pick-up from the sump of the tank -

Alan

At 11:11 AM 10/30/2006, you wrote:
>Sigh... there are Baba owners who have replaced fuel tanks, and
>those that will replace fuel tanks. We are about to join the "have" group.
>Long story short, there's some serious rust on the side of the tank
>near a site where fresh water plumbing has leaked repeatedly over
>OWTW's 20+ years (and who knows what's happened inside the
>tank...). Removing the galley joinery, to allow replacing the tank
>intact, isn't an option so that means we're faced with putting in
>two tanks and plumbing that up.
>I'd like to hear from people who've done this job recently and, if
>possible, in the Chesapeake (particularly Annapolis) area. If a
>bladder made sense, I'd take it in a heartbeat but I understand they
>don't do well as a long term solution (chafe being the main
>problem). Also, after being disappointed by the work of some
>Annapolis "rock star types", We're willing to consider moving the
>boat somewhere else to have the job done. Any input along those
>lines is welcome, too.
>Cheers,
>Rick Emerson
>
>
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