A boat mechanic friend of mine told me to put the Marine Stabil in my boat everytime I fill her up for this reason. Regular Sta-bil helps but is not effective.

Dons Port has plus and premium, I took that as 89 and 93. I bought the 89 octane over memorial weekend for around $3.00 per gallon. My boat holds 36 gallons, was almost empty and it was $100 to fill it up. Plus a tip for the nice girl that pumped the gas and held the boat.

I noticed that it eats up primingbulbs alot faster then before

also thanks for the heads up Guy

Headed to Don's Port for a fill up in the morning.

Good people up there.

Guy you can use my boat if you need it this week. Just don't forget to upload and save those waypoints JK man, if you need it let me know till yours gets fixed. It's just 4 minutes from the Little Elm ramp.

We have a Sam's here in Wichita Falls. I didn't see any Stickers saying the gas contained ethonal, so I asked an attendent and he assured me they didn't have ethnol in their gas. I also read that the marine sta bil is better to use. It isn't with the regular sta bil at Wal mart. It is in the marine section.

if you own a model airplane that runs on gas you can buy 1000% ethonal free gas , was told by my barber

I use Valvtect at the suggestion of someone on another board, seems to be the trick product out there for water in gas problems!
http://www.valvtect.com/ethanol.asp

Marine STA-BIL (blue stuff) is supposed to help protect against ethonal damage.

http://www.goldeagle.com/brands/stabil/faq.aspx#marine_formula

Scary stuff. I thought QT guaranteed their gas?

I plan on finding out if they do.

I have done some research this afternoon (a little too late you might think), and yes, it appears that StaBil Blue (marine) will give you some protection, but not total, but honestly, a little is enough for me. I went to BPS and bought some this afternoon and I am on the hunt for a station that advertises that they use no ETH. Too little, too late.

Not to be any more contrarian than usual but have you noticed that nearly everything that goes wrong with a fuel system is now blamed on ethanol?

There has been ethanol in gas for a long time and Mercury should have been aware of that fact.

I haven't tried this but it may help. http://www.fuel-testers.com/product_gas_alcohol.html