SV Lady Emma requires 1,000 liters of diesel. For this amount of diesel, it is much simpler to bring the boat alongside a dock where a tanker truck can pump the diesel direct into the boat.
One option is at the Sta. Ana public wharf. The problem there is that sailboats have to tie bow-to the wharf due to the shallow depths near the wharf.
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Then we have the Sasa Government dock. The dock there is meant for big freighters and ships. I haven't really enquired how to dock there, but I would assume one has to go through some paperwork and procedure.
Here in Samal, it is shallow near the shorefront around Samal. This will be difficult for sailboats to anchor close to shore for the hose of the tanker truck to reach. We came up with the idea of using one of the ferries. Tankers come to Samal all the time and there is a pump station at the ferry terminal for the Island Buses. All we had to do is get the station to pump 1,000 liters back into the tanker, get the tanker to drive into the ferry while Lady Emma ties up beside the Ferry, and voila! Problem solved. The tanker trucks carry 2000 liters of diesel, but it does not have its own meter. In addition, the hose they carry is 2 inch in diameter. Lady Emma arrived at a solution to that by converting a big water jug as a spout.
The procedure went well, a bit slow, but much faster than carrying several jerry jugs onboard. We had to do this many times in the Pacific and it is not fun. If the gas station is too far, the taxi drivers were very happy people. Here, nothing extra were charged. Whatever the pump price was, that was the charge.
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