Close call, Small boat fire Options

[Quadonoxmn]

A Catalina 27 right next to my boat on the hard at HBC caught fire this afternoon! Another club member happened to be on the river when he smelled burning fiberglass coming from the direction of the club. Upon getting ashore he saw the smoke, called the fire dept. and put out the fire with a garden hose just as the firefighters got there. I looked over the boat one hour after with another club member who is also a firefighter from another town. It looks like an electrical short circuit. Most of the damage is confined to the interior. Had this gone unnoticed for a few more minutes or worse, happened at night, I might be sans boat. Even if a hatch had been open to provide more oxygen things might have been much worse.

I will now go out and buy a lottery ticket, it just might be my lucky day.

Dan

[mg38024]

A Catalina 27 right next to my boat on the hard at HBC caught fire this afternoon! Another club member happened to be on the river when he smelled burning fiberglass coming from the direction of the club. Upon getting ashore he saw the smoke, called the fire dept. and put out the fire with a garden hose just as the firefighters got there. I looked over the boat one hour after with another club member who is also a firefighter from another town. It looks like an electrical short circuit. Most of the damage is confined to the interior. Had this gone unnoticed for a few more minutes or worse, happened at night, I might be sans boat. Even if a hatch had been open to provide more oxygen things might have been much worse.

I will now go out and buy a lottery ticket, it just might be my lucky day.

Dan

What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

[Sailorspeak]

A Catalina 27 right next to my boat on the hard at HBC caught fire this afternoon! Another club member happened to be on the river when he smelled burning fiberglass coming from the direction of the club. Upon getting ashore he saw the smoke, called the fire dept. and put out the fire with a garden hose just as the firefighters got there. I looked over the boat one hour after with another club member who is also a firefighter from another town. It looks like an electrical short circuit. Most of the damage is confined to the interior. Had this gone unnoticed for a few more minutes or worse, happened at night, I might be sans boat. Even if a hatch had been open to provide more oxygen things might have been much worse.

I will now go out and buy a lottery ticket, it just might be my lucky day.

Dan

What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

+5

[Quadonoxmn]

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What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

Of course.


I am also considering kicking the ass of the guy who owned the burned boat, he screwed something up to cause this.

[Great Red Shark]

Yeah, 'cause having his boat burned up isn't nearly bad enough !

What, do you think he torched his own boat on purpose ?

Sure, you got off easy, but you don't have to be a dick.

[Wet Spreaders]

Where's the traditional response?

"Pix, or it never happened!"

[Timo42]

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What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

Of course.


I am also considering kicking the ass of the guy who owned the burned boat, he screwed something up to cause this.

Yeah, 'cause having his boat burned up isn't nearly bad enough !

What, do you think he torched his own boat on purpose ?

Sure, you got off easy, but you don't have to be a dick.

Unless he is one of those people who shouldn't be allowed near tools, but thinks he knows better than anyone else. The p/o of my buddy's boat was like that...when you turn off the master power switch everything but the bilge pump should be off, right? so why is the radar still humming? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[Prouda my Pickle...]

A Catalina 27 right next to my boat on the hard at HBC caught fire this afternoon! Another club member happened to be on the river when he smelled burning fiberglass coming from the direction of the club. Upon getting ashore he saw the smoke, called the fire dept. and put out the fire with a garden hose just as the firefighters got there. I looked over the boat one hour after with another club member who is also a firefighter from another town. It looks like an electrical short circuit. Most of the damage is confined to the interior. Had this gone unnoticed for a few more minutes or worse, happened at night, I might be sans boat. Even if a hatch had been open to provide more oxygen things might have been much worse.

I will now go out and buy a lottery ticket, it just might be my lucky day.

Dan

What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

A keg of beer and give him the lottery ticket, too!

[floating dutchma...]

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What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

Of course.


I am also considering kicking the ass of the guy who owned the burned boat, he screwed something up to cause this.

Yeah, 'cause having his boat burned up isn't nearly bad enough !

What, do you think he torched his own boat on purpose ?

Sure, you got off easy, but you don't have to be a dick.

Unless he is one of those people who shouldn't be allowed near tools, but thinks he knows better than anyone else. The p/o of my buddy's boat was like that...when you turn off the master power switch everything but the bilge pump should be off, right? so why is the radar still humming? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

O.k. so show us some photoes of your electrics, and don't just show us the good bits. EVERY boat I've been on has something about the electrics that the owner wants to fix up and I'm talking 16 ft wooden boats up to 500 ft brand new oil rig tenders here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)


And if the owner shouldn't be allowed near tools he should sell his boat, If you can't fix something simple at sea then you are a danger (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[Timo42]

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What you need to do is a buy a beer for the guy who saved your boat.

Of course.


I am also considering kicking the ass of the guy who owned the burned boat, he screwed something up to cause this.

Yeah, 'cause having his boat burned up isn't nearly bad enough !

What, do you think he torched his own boat on purpose ?

Sure, you got off easy, but you don't have to be a dick.

Unless he is one of those people who shouldn't be allowed near tools, but thinks he knows better than anyone else. The p/o of my buddy's boat was like that...when you turn off the master power switch everything but the bilge pump should be off, right? so why is the radar still humming? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

O.k. so show us some photoes of your electrics, and don't just show us the good bits. EVERY boat I've been on has something about the electrics that the owner wants to fix up and I'm talking 16 ft wooden boats up to 500 ft brand new oil rig tenders here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)


And if the owner shouldn't be allowed near tools he should sell his boat, If you can't fix something simple at sea then you are a danger (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Hey, no one's perfect, but this was a complete mess of unlabeled switches, melted wiring, corroded connectors, added circuits, and "interesting" design decisions. After the motor cut out and wouldn't start, I spent a couple hours rewiring the ignition switch and part of the guage panel. If you turned the main power switch off, the shorepower battery charger wasn't connected to the house bank, which also was the starter bank, but the batteries that ran the fridge were. The radar had to be turned off at the display.There were a couple of unknown wires attached directly to the batteries without fuses. The vhf wasn't even hooked up. No manual/auto switch for the bilge pump, no obvious switches for interior lights...I could go on, but I think you see the picture, my buddy said the p/o's excuse was "I was going to fix that, but I went sailing instead..." Having to get towed back to my friend's upwind slip because the motor wouldn't start after a day of sailing with family aboard, I had time to question, "WTF was he thinking " repeatedly.
My boat started out with lamp cord for wiring, but I replaced all of it, added labelled, fused circuits for everything, and made it obvious what controlled what, so that the next guy won't have any "WTF was he thinking"moments, and I can tell someone to turn on the running lights, and I know they will get the right switch and they will work.
That being said, we don't know what the situation with the O/P was, so...but hey, this is S/A after all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[floating dutchma...]

I hear ya

the P/O of my boat seamed to think that the deak level nav lights should be on the same switch as the tri-colour??????????????

I could spend the rest of the night telling you rest of the stuff I found but I think that says it all.

Nothing excuses a "complete mess of unlabeled switches, melted wiring, corroded connectors, added circuits, and "interesting" design decisions"


?I didn't buy a boat from the same guy as you did I??

[tommays]

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I pulled that mess out of a J24 thank god the PO did not have a boat with a real electric system

[jrpytlak]

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I pulled that mess out of a J24 thank god the PO did not have a boat with a real electric system

Looks like under the dash of my 62 Impala I had in high school. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Quadonoxmn]

Don't look like much from aboard my vessel but the interior under the instruments is well done.



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The cushions caught from melted plastic dripping on it?

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[Quadonoxmn]

A fair amount of smoke must have been comming out of this vent.

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I think the luck thing is real as I suddenly got a call for a job interview yesterday, hopefully it holds as it is almost a year since I had a real job.