Gunboat 60 Flow - burnt

[NZK]

Gutting news from the Badalona yard just outside Barcelona. Reports are no causalities thankfully but this is still terrible.

 

[jmh2002]

Oh no!

 

[mpenman]

That's really really sad. No beuno at all!!

 

[Paranda]

Another case of lithium battery thermal runaway ???

 

[karst]

So sad. That boat was meticulously maintained and constantly improved.

This certainly won’t help the insurability of this market segment.

 

[Keith]

Sad,

Very important to know what actually caused this fire.

 

[Wess]

Any word on if the batts were the cause (asks the guy who was thinking of finally giving up on his AGMs and moving up the technology ladder).

 

[karst]

Any word on if the batts were the cause (asks the guy who was thinking of finally giving up on his AGMs and moving up the technology ladder).

I’d assume so. I wouldn’t let an incident like this dissuade you from going Li though. The battery system on an electric propulsion boat is much more experimental, complex, higher voltage, and there are many more failure points.

I’m about to go Li on my RV. I’m thinking cheap Chinese-made.

LiTime 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Battery Built-in 100A BMS, Up to 15000 Cycles, Perfect for RV, Marine, Home Energy Storage https://a.co/d/dGKdNlt

 

[ProaSailor]

I’m thinking cheap Chinese-made.

So you are not concerned about fire then?

 

[Russell Brown]

What about the toxic cloud?

 

[Christo Mroz]

Sequel to White Noise?

 

[Remodel]

Sad,

Very important to know what actually caused this fire.

Indeed. What the heck happened?

 

[Sailabout]

Another case of lithium battery thermal runaway ???

we will never know, the clever battery management always destroys the evidence...

 

[loop]

we will never know, the clever battery management always destroys the evidence...

... unless it had a live connection to the cloud

 

[Sailabout]

... unless it had a live connection to the cloud

ha, its programmed to drop the conection when things go bad...
Its CE compliant so has the right to not self incriminate.

 

[Ravenswing]

I’d assume so. I wouldn’t let an incident like this dissuade you from going Li though. The battery system on an electric propulsion boat is much more experimental, complex, higher voltage, and there are many more failure points.

I’m about to go Li on my RV. I’m thinking cheap Chinese-made.

LiTime 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Battery Built-in 100A BMS, Up to 15000 Cycles, Perfect for RV, Marine, Home Energy Storage https://a.co/d/dGKdNlt

As a DIY'r on my LiFePO4 boat and camper, highly encourage you to shop based on Will Proust's YouTube tear-downs of the various Chinese batts. Some of them have really shitty wiring inside. See if you can find internal shots of the brand before you buy. A buddy bought a 200amp hour thru amazon and it didn't work upon arrival. Company quickly sent him a new one but didn't want first one back. I cut into the case and found wiring I'd never allow on my boat, but perfectly fine blue-case CALB cells. Re-wired, added Bluetooth cell monitor and they're working safely.

 

[ProaSailor]

Gutting news from the Badalona yard just outside Barcelona. Reports are no causalities thankfully but this is still terrible.


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Can you provide a source for this report? I've searched for news of this event to get more details but found nothing so far.

I did find a 2017 Lagoon charter catamaran (15.8 meter = 52 feet) named FLOW based in that area but see no reason to believe it's a mix-up.

 

[MagentaLine]

Well, that's disruptive.

 

[vokstar]

Can you provide a source for this report? I've searched for news of this event to get more details but found nothing so far.

I did find a 2017 Lagoon charter catamaran (15.8 meter = 52 feet) named FLOW based in that area but see no reason to believe it's a mix-up.

Marine traffic has Flow's last position in that harbour so......

 

[loop]

Marine traffic has Flow's last position in that harbour so......

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local news report 28 May a yacht on fire in that location, toxic smoke spreading into the city, but do not mention a name or brand of boat
https://metropoliabierta.elespanol....lona-provoca-gran-columna-humo_73625_102.html
https://elcaso.elnacional.cat/es/no...a-columna-humo-toda-barcelona_1034409102.html