Another boat fire

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:06 pm

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news ... n-ches-bay

we don't know the cause but it is ...
A good reminder

run blowers min 4 minutes be for starting

Sniff sniff sniff

Use ONLY marine approved fuel and electric parts no auto starters alt distutors etc marine carbs and filters ( NO Clear gas filters / separators )

fuel lines in good cond and approved type

k9th · Post by **k9th** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:43 pm

Seems like a rash of boat fires this year - more than I have seen reported in a good while.

No insurance - that's gotta hurt. Glad they are OK.

summer storm · Post by **summer storm** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:10 pm

What's going on with these boat fires? "just bought days ago"

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:39 pm

Ignorance ...

New boaters with new boat who don't know anything about boats.
Old boaters with new boat that they haven't become familiar with, don't know the new boat's quirks, or just new boat bugs.
Old boaters with new (to them) used boat that has issues they're not familiar with or the prior owner covered up.

Local TowBoatUS captain says 75% of the boats he tows are new boats.

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:41 pm

boats that people can no longer afford and cant sell?

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:18 pm

Scott - yes those too -

Doug was asking why so many fires on boats "just bought days ago".

I've seen questionable insurance jobs and many abandoned boats here. Florida is really full of them.

Hows SoCal? I heard some rain came through last week - midwest is missing out, and SoCal gets rain - odd .... we've been getting some thunderstorms/rain every 3-4 days in the afternoons (pretty typical here - like it)..

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:10 pm

Hmmm. He can't swim, his dad died from drowning...I think I would have learned to swim if I were going to be boating.

hmc · Post by **hmc** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:39 pm

OR BE WeARING A LIFE JACKet if I cant .

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:42 pm

Capt. Ross, understood, was kind of a not so funny joke, as there is always colateral damage with fire.

things are good in socal, warm but tolerable, and we did get a little rain, not enough to matter, but enough to raise the humidity

cheers

davidsmith · Post by **davidsmith** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:12 pm

How about ethanol fuel eating fuel lines and gaskets in carbs or creating water in fuel tanks causing leaks and so on.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:32 am

davidsmith wrote:How about ethanol fuel eating fuel lines and gaskets in carbs or creating water in fuel tanks causing leaks and so on.

you bet. my mechanic john says he is seeing more and more of this as of late.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:40 am

Stripermann2 wrote:Hmmm. He can't swim, his dad died from drowning...I think I would have learned to swim if I were going to be boating.

jamie, you would be surprised how many 'boating wives' at parkside do not know how to swim. when i was showing off ENTERPRISE last year to some of my neighbors wives, everyone said, ''gee, i hope i don't fall in climbing the swim ladder because i don't know how to swim''. (i was gobsmacked at that statement) and they INSIST on wearing flip flops (WRONG!!!), wedge open toe shoes, crocks, sandles, and even pumps. i just don't get it. hell, i've even seen some of the guys wearing flip flops on the dock and trying to get on and off their boats.

growing up, mom and my sister left the fashion shoes at home and always wore topsiders to and from the boat and while onboard. it was a non negotiable line item as far as dad was concerned.

aaron

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:11 am

davidsmith wrote:How about ethanol fuel eating fuel lines and gaskets in carbs or creating water in fuel tanks causing leaks and so on.

David, you've got a great point here. When I bought my boat the PO had to have work done on the Onan (it wouldn't start die to him not using it) the wrench turner he hired put plan auto gas line in it the system I found it....how ? it failed and started to come a part from the inside out.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:14 am

alexander38 wrote:
davidsmith wrote:How about ethanol fuel eating fuel lines and gaskets in carbs or creating water in fuel tanks causing leaks and so on.
David, you've got a great point here. When I bought my boat the PO had to have work done on the Onan (it wouldn't start die to him not using it) the wrench turner he hired put plan auto gas line in it the system I found it....how ? it failed and started to come a part from the inside out.

YIPES!!!!

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:53 am

gettaway wrote:Capt. Ross, understood, was kind of a not so funny joke, as there is always colateral damage with fire.

Joke?