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Could biofuel hold the key to guilt-free boating? The reason most fuel pick-ups draw fuel from 20mm above the bottom of the tank is precisely to stop them picking up sludge. This is all well and good until fuel gets sloshed around the tank during a rough passage, stirring up sediment and blocking the engine’s fuel filters at precisely the moment you need them most. With the Dipper continually removing this sediment from the bottom of the tank (it runs whenever the engines do) there shouldn’t be any sludge left to get stirred up. Because the Dipper is only designed to polish the bottom 3-5% of the tank rather than the full capacity, it can handle tanks of 10,000 litres or more. It is not intended as a panacea for filthy tanks that need steam cleaning or replacing, nor is it a replacement for the Racor style filters that sit in the fuel line as a last line of defence, but if you do see water and debris appearing in these, think how much worse the fuel must be below th ....