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Well you know us matelots, call a spade a spade, or an oar an oar I must say I get rather heated with all the useless, "hire the tradesmen, help me I am in trouble, is this a bowline, flannels and reafer jacket types". I have rescued many and always do this with grace and courtesy and am rather amused when the thanks that some give are to consider that I am the yoik and they are is some way superior just because I may have grease under my broken fingernails. Such is the nature of the gratitude. Nevertheless the law of the sea etc...... The reality with being a boatie is such that you may call SOS or Mayday but you can not expect the RAC, Coastguard, search and rescue or a passing vessel to appear over the next wave and solve your problems for you. Whether you are in the middle of the Pacific or just parked on your mooring, all the best standards of seamanship should be maintained. Otherwise you are a menace to yourself, your crew, your rescuers or anyone else who gets in your way. Better to save lives at sea and stay at home on dry land. Enough of the preaching.
Sure although I did not say so, disconnect the gas bottle by undoing the regulator from the cylinder [leaving the tube connected]. I consider that copper tubing is expensive, difficult to fit, prone to damage that is often difficult to detect and must be protected from any chance of fracture from extended engine vibrations etc so much so that you need to call a Corgi. Not so with a suitable clear flexable [plastic who knows???] fuel/gas tube. Where I come from there is a real chance of an otherwise harmless bee [called a mason bee] which likes nothing better than to make its nest [a little mud dam] in a convenient open tube, keyhole, coleman lamp air vent, primus air vent or other such convenient opening and generally block things up. This has been the ususpected basis of many a problem solved at great expense, hence the value of the clear tube. Although now that I have considered this I suppose I should protect the critical openings with a bit of tape. Any way I am raving again. Time to head back to sea nad get away from all this.
Well you know us matelots, call a spade a spade, or an oar an oar I must say I get rather heated with all the useless, "hire the tradesmen, help me I am in trouble, is this a bowline, flannels and reafer jacket types". I have rescued many and always do this with grace and courtesy and am rather amused when the thanks that some give are to consider that I am the yoik and they are is some way superior just because I may have grease under my broken fingernails. Such is the nature of the gratitude. Nevertheless the law of the sea etc...... The reality with being a boatie is such that you may call SOS or Mayday but you can not expect the RAC, Coastguard, search and rescue or a passing vessel to appear over the next wave and solve your problems for you. Whether you are in the middle of the Pacific or just parked on your mooring, all the best standards of seamanship should be maintained. Otherwise you are a menace to yourself, your crew, your rescuers or anyone else who gets in your way. Better to save lives at sea and stay at home on dry land. Enough of the preaching.
Sure although I did not say so, disconnect the gas bottle by undoing the regulator from the cylinder [leaving the tube connected]. I consider that copper tubing is expensive, difficult to fit, prone to damage that is often difficult to detect and must be protected from any chance of fracture from extended engine vibrations etc so much so that you need to call a Corgi. Not so with a suitable clear flexable [plastic who knows???] fuel/gas tube. Where I come from there is a real chance of an otherwise harmless bee [called a mason bee] which likes nothing better than to make its nest [a little mud dam] in a convenient open tube, keyhole, coleman lamp air vent, primus air vent or other such convenient opening and generally block things up. This has been the ususpected basis of many a problem solved at great expense, hence the value of the clear tube. Although now that I have considered this I suppose I should protect the critical openings with a bit of tape. Any way I am raving again. Time to head back to sea nad get away from all this.
