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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Initially Posted - 04/24/2016 : 07:58:26

Just came across this from Sail...

Fortunately, this is in a harbor, at anchor. I had a tiny taste of this five miles off the beach on the Pacific, 10 miles from harbor. It's not a good feeling.

(It isn't a C-25, in case you're wondering--I think it's a C-30 Tall, or was...)

Dave Bristle
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage before going over to the Dark Side (2007-2025); now departed from Mystic, CT, and boatless for the first time since 1970.

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 04/24/2016 08:02:00

redeye
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Response Posted - 04/28/2016 : 06:27:23

Motoring out this week when the engine died from the fuel quick release fitting pulling air. The shiny year old female fitting has a bad spring and rubber gasket

. Made anchorage pumping the bulb every 2 minutes. My backup fitting dripped fuel. Motored back to the dock the next morning, pouring a bucket of water on the leaking fuel with visions of sudden flames, explosions, pyrotechnics. Pretty much like the picture above.

By the time I got back the new fitting no longer leaked fuel....

Onward to West Marine finding a wall of fittings poorly identified. Whatever happened to the concept of standards?
As important as that fitting is and West marine was clueless. OK maybe not clueless but certainly overwhelmed from the selection of OEM products.

Bought a new set of fittings that appeared to fit together (quick release from the tank to the hose) and one fitting that connects directly from the tank to the hose (no quick release, male thread for the tank to male hose barb) as my new backup.

SO I now have one suspect fitting on the boat, another new suspect fitting and a new direct connect and no backup quick connect fitting. Onward to West Marine or the Evinrude dealer.

I suggest one might do well to keep a direct connection fitting as a backup.

I do not have a backup quick release fitting for the engine to the fuel line. The inside diameter is different.. Per the kids at the dealership where I bought the engine. The OEM quick release part from the fuel line to the engine is different, proprietary, special...

Oh yes and that fire extinguisher thing

Ray in Atlanta, Ga.
"Lee Key" '84 Catalina 25
Standard Rig / Fin Keel

delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/28/2016 : 07:58:45

Every year our marina has a spring working party that's basically compulsory (it's that or a $200 fee). One of our members & his dad run a fire equipment repair shop in Seattle, so they bring their truck, everyone brings their fire extinguishers (I have two on SL & a couple more bigger ones in my garage), and they refill & re-certify them. I'll be bringing them with me this coming Saturday to get them done again.

We scared ourselves the first time we tried to boil water on our stove, not realizing it had a thermocouple controlled shutoff. We had a couple of flare ups, and I realized that getting to the sole extinguisher would require reaching across the flames to get to it. So I bought a much bigger one & mounted it on the forward head bulkhead where you didn't have to be anywhere near the most likely source of a fire to get to it.

David
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 04/28/2016 : 08:23:56

The article said that fire started in the galley--maybe it was a Princess...

I'd just make sure you can also get to an extinguisher without having to go into a burning cabin. Resin puts off a lot of extremely toxic smoke, as shown in that shot.

Dave Bristle
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage before going over to the Dark Side (2007-2025); now departed from Mystic, CT, and boatless for the first time since 1970.

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Response Posted - 04/29/2016 : 07:48:58

Thanks Dave for this topic. It made me check my 2 extinguishers. One was on the line between charged/discharged so it will get replaced. I've also heard that you should shake them up occasionally to keep the material from caking up inside.

Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 05/03/2016 : 19:47:59

I get a vessel safety check every June from the local Milford Power Squadron. Hank doesn't take any crap. He checks my fire extinguisher near the companionway and the other one in the head each year. Looked good in 2015, hopefully good this spring too. The theory is to have a fire extinguisher in easy reach of any point in the boat without having to walk through fire ...

Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

Port Captain � Milford, CT

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