Stamford Harbor boat fire, saturday afternoon.

[CJM]

 

[Greg Lions]

Not good !

 

[Third Edition]

Sad.

https://www.stamfordfire.com/2020/10/04/multiple-boats-catch-fire-in-stamford-harbors-west-branch/

 

[PlayDate]

Yikes! Looks like one boat caught fire and then drifted into the others. I hope everyone is okay.

 

[CJM]

No injuries. The fire started at a fuel dock, it still under investigation. They pushed it away & it drifted across the channel. 5 boats destroyed. It was bad, but it could have been much worse. The other boats that caught on fire started drifting in to another yacht club. Workers from a different marina started moving boats & threw an anchor in to one the boats on fire and pulled it away.

 

[PlayDate]

No injuries. The fire started at a fuel dock, it still under investigation. They pushed it away & it drifted across the channel. 5 boats destroyed. It was bad, but it could have been much worse. The other boats that caught on fire started drifting in to another yacht club. Workers from a different marina started moving boats & threw an anchor in to one the boats on fire and pulled it away.

That should pose an interesting problem for the insurance companies and the lawyers to figure out. The fuel dock cuts loose a burning boat that drifts into another marina and burns 4 more boats and property. Who is at fault for this?

 

[spikedaddy99]

That should pose an interesting problem for the insurance companies and the lawyers to figure out. The fuel dock cuts loose a burning boat that drifts into another marina and burns 4 more boats and property. Who is at fault for this?

John, my thoughts exactly. Heads are gonna roll.

 

[northern]

I have never looked closely but from recollection fuel docks do not have an excess fuel valve shut off. As bad as it is to loose a few boats better than having a fuel dock explode. On our way north one marina had a boat explode at a fuel dock. Gas boat. Speculation was they did not run the blower long enough. A marina near us had a several boat fire. I called our insurance agent and he said if a boat causes damage to another that boat pays to the limit of their policy after that the damaged boat's insurance pays.

 

[Gofirstclass]

In a club we used to belong to a gas boat fueled up then took off, idling away without running their blower. There was an explosion that blew a lady into the water and burned the male boat owner. Both were burned but survived .

Got a gas boat? Gotta run those blowers for several minutes.

 

[stephenm27]

Not to hijack this thread, but do those outboard-powered center and dual console boats (popular on that other forum) typically have blowers? I realize they don’t have a typical ER, but they are carrying similar quantities of fuel in an enclosed bilge...

 

[hottoddie]

Someday The Coast Guard and insurance companies are going to wake up and require bilge fume detectors in gas powered boats. And yes I have and always have had them in my gas powered boats.