Easter, a non-traditional holiday

Well, it’s Easter morning, and who should pay a surprise visit during an unexpected (but planned) hydrocarbon transfer operation, but His Honour, The Easter Bunny.

“What,” you ask, “is a hydrocarbon transfer operation?” Why, sucking all the many, many litres of toxic diesel fuel in your boat’s giant fuel tank into large barrels, spilling some of the stinky, oily fuel in the process, cleaning out the fuel tank, and then returning the fuel to your tank - all to ensure trouble-free operation of your engine, especially in challenging conditions. (Last time we did this was about 9 years ago; prior to that, before our cruise to Alaska and back, over several thousand miles, many under motor. Engine fuel filters can plug up easily as a result of the engine sucking up sediment on the bottom of the fuel tank bottom, especially if the boat is in rough conditions - when fuel in the tank gets shaken around and bottom sediment gets stirred up. Boats have come to real grief - foundering on rocks when their engines stopped, or sinking after being unable to run their engine to charge their batteries to allow emergency pumps to run). So, call the fuel operations a weird Easter present to ourselves…