Am thinking of replacing my fuel filter on the boat as I was out on another boat and saw one that had a clear section on the bottom to view the amount of water.

Whats the best recommendation for a petrol fuel filter and approximate costs?
regards JB

If it was me I would use the Racor fuel filters, for petrol if im not mistaken you have a couple of options, but id go with the one where you can see the fuel "Clear bowl" at the base of the filter, and drain the water out of it.

If you are running a fuel injected engine I would definitely get the clear bowl style filter setup. There is some guy on TM selling them for ~$90 which is pretty good. When buying the  actual filters you can use Racor, Sierra, Mallory and probably a couple of other brands that all fit the same housing and bowl. Filters are about $50 a pop. There are some people who recommend going to 2 micron filters for injected engines, and if you change the filter every 100 hrs I would think about this. I going to 2 micron, always carry a spare filter in the boat as well and rotate the spare by using it as your next 100hr change etc. Good idea to do even with 10 micron filters etc, but with 2 micron I would definitely do this.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll go for the racor ones.

thanks.