A lucky escape.....

Always worries me at fuel pontoons when a petrol boat pulls up while we are taking in over a 1000 L + of diesel and they moor close .
Out boards as well , ribs things like that .Normally overloaded with people .

Its ( explosions ) often not taken seriously....I guess they are car mode mentally , think it’s just like car .
 
Portofino said:
Always worries me at fuel pontoons when a petrol boat pulls up while we are taking in over a 1000 L + of diesel and they moor close .
Out boards as well , ribs things like that .Normally overloaded with people .

Its ( explosions ) often not taken seriously....I guess they are car mode mentally , think it’s just like car .
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Don't you have a petrol tank onboard for your tender o/b? There for the grace of God go all of us
 
Just takes vapour and and source of ignition ( electrical switch arc etc and boom).

As a child we had an old clothes dryer ( like a dustbin with a heater at the bottom. I used it to make a bonfire with garden waste. Not burning. Put on petrol. It was happy burning away for about 10 seconds until the full / air mix was optimal and then boom. It blew the lot 10 feet in the air as set fir the the adjoining plot garden ( which happened to be a building site at the time). Petrol even in small amounts is volatile stuff.

My Willaims has an engine fan you run 5 mins before starting. I am no angel. I do it at the start of any period of non use and after fuelling. I might do it more often !
 
A few peeps at least 1 ? looking at the full vid came out of the cabin after the explosion.
Wonder if someone switched something on and it’s relay / contact or what ever ( which may be faulty ) is in the ER .
Or she overfilled it and it’s tank top seals have deteriorated = some vented out ......you know like a car pump first click on the nozzle .

To read the gauges on mine ( diesels btw ) I have to turn the ignitions on for each side , or open up the ER hatch climb in ( roasting after a run back ) and view the sight glasses ....after opening there cocks to level them out .So i do not do that .
Thing is turning a key activates the control boxes in the ER and powers up quite a lot .Obviously no escaping vapour with a diesel to worry about in this case .
But she may have left the ign on to see a gauge ?
So a leak from the tank / pipage, not present with normal running = suggest overfill or it would have gone up earlier and a fresh spark, just now ??
I understand all the electrical OEM stuff is spark protected inc the extraction fans , but somethings happened/ failed ?
 
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