Oregonizm
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I took delivery of my new 2275GCW in February but, being located in Central Oregon, we are just now getting it out on the lakes. I had the first opportunity to visit my local gas station with it yesterday and when I got over the shock of having to pay $4.61 per gallon for "Corn Free Premium" I had an awful time getting fuel into the tank. My tank is located under one of the rear seats and the filler is located near the top of the nearby fence. When the boat is on the trailer that puts the filler about 7' high. I borrowed a ladder and solved that problem but that was just the beginning. I removed the rear seat so I could see the tank and the fuel level and then I manually operated the fuel trigger, not using the trigger hold and not trusting the auto-shut-off. When the fuel level in the tank was still several inches from the top, fuel began spewing out of the filler all over the side of my brand new boat. With the fuel level several inches from the top of the tank I waited a minute and carefull tried to get some more fuel into the tank. Fuel immediatly began spewing out of the filler and down the side of my boat. According to my boat's fuel guage I had about 1/8 of a tank before I started re-fueling and I could only get 13 gallons into the 25 gallon tank. The boat's guage now reads a little more that 3/4 full but I can't get any more fuel into the tank without risking more spilled $4.61 per gallon fuel down the side of my boat. Anybody out there have this problem and have you found a solution other that just filling 3/4 full?