Boat fire , Cowes YH, overnight

Iain C said:
Bloody hell you lot, let's all be grumpy and point fingers and worry about our boats, right?

Of course it's possible that the teenager had been working on his or a family member's boat, slept aboard, and a heater malfunctioned. It's also entirely possible that he wasn't, but either way there's someone's son airlifted to a burns unit hundreds of miles away who is presumably in a pretty bad, and very painful, way.

Let's all hope for a satisfactory outcome first and foremost, eh?
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Well said.
 
Topcat47 said:
I never leave gas bottles on my boat when it's ashore? Does anyone? Perhaps this wasn't a gas fed fire.....
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Yes but I usually disconnect and cap the bottle when being left for a long period of time.

I rather take the risk of the boat being burned out as a result rather than taking them home and risk burning the house down.
 
With a disconnected gas bottle I'd think the main / only real risk would be to firefighters or anyone else around if there was a fire for another reason.

When my boat comes ashore for the winter I remove the gas bottle, flares and fuel ( petrol in my case ) in case malicious yobs break in, I don't want to leave anything to give them the idea and / or easy means of setting her on fire - which would also risk neighbouring boats.
 
I wouldn't dream of leaving a disconnected 907 anywhere, on the boat or in the bunker at home, without a handle screwed in; to a half Scotsman, even more important than the chance of getting blown up, it might as well leak a stream of solid gold the prices they charge.
 
On holiday somewhere in Europe, my uncle got a bottle with a sticky ball valve once. He had to poke the ball to release it before it would work, which was fine until the ball shot out followed by all the gas. Good thing there was no one smoking nearby.
 
That would have got his attention :)

As did mine with a ruptured gas hose fire on another boat I had, the spiral wound ' armour ' prevented visual inspection.

I learned a lot from that boat, no. 1 being to fit standard flexible gas hose to the gymballed cooker, and change it every year...
 
alant said:
If butane, probably wouldn't work anyway, unless you warmed the bottle up (don't waste your morning pee). :o;)
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I once had to dismantle one side of the back suspension of a Triumph Herald outside, with 4" snow on the ground. I had to use a blowtorch to free the nuts, but the only way to do that was to heat a nut until the flame started dying , then heat a bit of chassis until the flame was almost gone, then warm my hands on the chassis, then warm the gas cylinder with my hands till the flame recovered, then heat the nut again. Not the most cheerful day I have ever spent.
 
JumbleDuck said:
I once had to dismantle one side of the back suspension of a Triumph Herald outside, with 4" snow on the ground. I had to use a blowtorch to free the nuts, but the only way to do that was to heat a nut until the flame started dying , then heat a bit of chassis until the flame was almost gone, then warm my hands on the chassis, then warm the gas cylinder with my hands till the flame recovered, then heat the nut again. Not the most cheerful day I have ever spent.
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Irritating but ingenious ;)

I tend switch to the red bottles for winter, then flip back to blue when it runs out in the spring/early-summer.
 
dom said:
Irritating but ingenious ;)

I tend switch to the red bottles for winter, then flip back to blue when it runs out in the spring/early-summer.
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I suppose I have change to a MAP cylinder for added volatility, but I was a mile's walk and an infrequent bus away from anywhere I might have got such a thing. I was quite pleased with my method, but haven't looked for opportunities for a repeat performance.
 
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