Explosion!

Scariest part of boating for me. And no matter how careful you are, the fuel attendant can always have a brain fart. Or the boat right across the dock.
 
Damn... Not running the blower or something? I didn't hear them give a reason for it.
 
Doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary happened to cause that.

Good fortune that nobody was hurt. I always go to the gas dock alone.
 
One of the biggest reasons we went a bit bigger on boat to justify diesel power. I sleep much better at night these days.
Carpe Deim
 
MonacoMike said:
several boats of blown up after they put 200 gallons of fuel in the rod holder.
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Ha! And they say you can't fix stupid. When that lights off it puts a little chlorine in the gene pool I guess.
 
I have an old boat with a manual on-off bilge blower switch which is easy to forget to use. Do new boats automatically run the blower before they will start?

Hpcrank
 
I can't understand why it not either a Coast Guard or Insurance requirement to have a bilge fume detector in the engine room of every gas powered boat. Just makes common sense.
 
I don't understand why people think it's someone else's job to protect us from ourselves...
 
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