Diesel in Stuart

[madhatter1]

Heading on a trip next week that will bring us to Stuart. Any recommendations on fueling up over there? We are headed to Manatee Pocket area.

 

[motoryacht lover]

The large yard right after the lock heading east I believe still sells diesel. I believe it used to be called
American Custom Yachts but is now Willis Custom yachts. When it was American it was cheap and easy.
If not Willis my next choice would be Sunset Bay. The closer you get to the inlet the more expensive it gets.


I attached this notice to Mariners that I got regarding Indiantown bridge. I believe you are coming from the
West coast.


Active Captain says Willis no longer sells fuel.

 

[Bugsy]

Cheapest in the Pocket is Mariner Cay Marina.

 

[Captain Ralph]

The closer you get to the inlet the more expensive it gets.

Don't forget the ole Indiantown Marina.
http://www.indiantownmarina.com

 

[madhatter1]

We timed out trip to arrive in Stuart on the 24th in case there is a hiccup with the bridge reopening. For fuel just looking for a fair price where they do volume so that fuel is clean.

 

[mike.s]

Manatee Marina or Mariner Cay are the cheapest.

 

[Retired1]

We timed out trip to arrive in Stuart on the 24th in case there is a hiccup with the bridge reopening. For fuel just looking for a fair price where they do volume so that fuel is clean.

my, you’re rather a optimistic fellow aren’t you? This is same company that told their investors, local politicians , and Federal Government-that their scheme would be finished in 2014, and they would be building a new brodge because that one is almost 100 hears old.

 

[madhatter1]

Gotta live. I'll make lemonade if I have to.

 

[rsmith]

One of my misadventures in life was owning a portable toilet and construction trailer company. I did mostly government contractors FPL Nuke plant outages NASA and others one of the accounts was maintenance on the lock at the east end of the canal. It always took twice as long as they budgeted for. I’ve never seen any government project we’ve work on stick to a time table. I wouldn’t set my watch by it.

 

[Dan Mapes]

One of my misadventures in life was owning a portable toilet and construction trailer company. I did mostly government contractors FPL Nuke plant outages NASA and others one of the accounts was maintenance on the lock at the east end of the canal. It always took twice as long as they budgeted for. I’ve never seen any government project we’ve work on stick to a time table. I wouldn’t set my watch by it.

I'm thinking it's less refined than that. Like you would not want to plan a family by it.

 

[madhatter1]

If I make it to Roland Martin and have to turn back we’ll be fine. Just make new plans, maybe a few nights on the hook.

 

[motoryacht lover]

Madhatter, I will be hopefully going through the RR bridge at the first scheduled opening after the closure
On Monday 5/22 at 6:00 Am. Don’t know if it times out for you but if you want PM me and I will send you
My cell and you can call me and I will tell you if it opened or what have you. I have a slip at Sunset Bay for
Sunday the 21st and will be right there at 6AM.

 

[madhatter1]

Wow, I hope it opens for you. We are on a fun cruise and can change course at any time. Don't go through until Wednesday the 24th so just post here if it opened or not so everyone knows.

 

[Retired1]

If you’ve never been through this area before, I can highly recommend the town of Okeechobee. The south side of the lake is flat farmland all owned by a couple of billionaires families who live in either Palm Beach, Dominican Republic, or Michigan. Their ex agricultural implements are pretty much the only people left. On the other hand, the north side of the lake is on higher ground and is populated by Ranchers, retired folks, both on pensions, and billionaires who have private landing strips, and some really cool Hunting Lodges (OK Corral being one) with five star chefs. There’s lots of big oak trees. It’s well worth the visit, especially the Grassy Island bike and horse trails, right north of town out 50th street. Horseback riding and rodeo is a big deal there.
There’s a marina right at the entrance to the Kissimmini River. There’s way more to the town that what you can see by just driving through enroute somewhere else. Google up “Laura Upthegrove” to understand why there’s a town on the north side of the lake named Upthegrove Beach.

 

[Dan Mapes]

We've stopped at Roland Martin a few times. It is a convenient stop over if you travel slowly like we did. Normally at 8 knots or so it took two days to get to Stuart from Ft. Myers. I will say that when a restaurant has condiment baskets on the table that include bug spray, you know it will be a challenging sit down (and it was).
Try to dock farther down from the restaurant as they have music and it gets noisey. Of course all of this is from 7 years ago and "your mileage may vary".
Sunset Bay marina was a very good stop. Convenient to town, decent fuel prices, and loaner bicycles. The food at Sailor's Return was always good.

 

[ageless]

My experience cruising the Eastern Fl coast is there’s fuel delivery companies up/down and prices are significantly lower than marinas

 

[Captain Ralph]

My experience cruising the Eastern Fl coast is there’s fuel delivery companies up/down and prices are significantly lower than marinas

We used to do this when we could also.
Places to meet started getting harder to schedule.
Schedules were getting harder to keep, for the boat and truck.
The oil/fuel companies were getting complaints on 1 or 2 drips of fuel in the water (even when there was none).

Fuel prices mostly vary by convenience.
The closer they are to you, the more they charge.

Overall, fuel cost is not the biggest factor, Getting on/off the fuel dock seems paramount to me.
The cheapest diesel dock in Jax has a ripping river current and the fuel/dock folks really don't want to help. Lots of fenders, lines and crew ready with PFDs on.
A large marina with minimum wind/current is shallow, tight maneuvering, one boat at a time, only fuel pump around, surrounded by most of the cities other marinas, cost the most.

IMO, plan your convenience, not a few pennies a gallon.