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Anyone using their stove to warm up the cabin while aboard, might benifit by reading the latest Safety Bulletin over on the MAIB site.If anyone knows how to add a link to the site,please do so.
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sailorman said:
You just go to sleep & dont wake up.
after a number if incidents last year we had a campaign on the YBW to highlight this issue.
Many of us fitted carbon monoxide alarms, they cost £10> 15 from Amazon
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Just ordered one - don't use heating often so never bothered but it only takes once.
 
The carbon monoxide WILL enter the cabin but usually only for a shorter time and when you are awake anyway and should notice the warning signs. Your alarm should warn you but it is useful to remember that if the flame has a lot of yellow then expect more carbon monoxide
 
Very sad and hard to comprehend. Irrespective of the obvious danger, trying to warm a boat by burning bottled gas via the cooker is self defeating - the product of the combustion is water vapour so the boat interior ends up getting soaking wet. If you survive to turn off the gas you will then be wetter as well as colder. Cook with the hatch open and stay dry.The risk from T lights is far, far less and would I think be hard to quantify, given that most boats have some permanent vents, dorades etc. On Pleiades I run 5 oil lamps (on lamp oil, not paraffin) plus a charcoal heater and two T lights, all at the same time. Never the slightest problem as I maintain adequate ventilation - backed up by two Co2 detectors and a smoke detector. Previously I had a diesel drip fed heater but was never happy with even resting when that was burning, a much more dangerous beastie than the charcoal. Best way to keep warm when in the slug is of course to share bodily warmth with someone of a favourable disposition - failing that buy an extra sleeping bag but put the fires out.
Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5
 
Pleiades said:
Very sad and hard to comprehend. Irrespective of the obvious danger, trying to warm a boat by burning bottled gas via the cooker is self defeating - the product of the combustion is water vapour so the boat interior ends up getting soaking wet. If you survive to turn off the gas you will then be wetter as well as colder. Cook with the hatch open and stay dry.The risk from T lights is far, far less and would I think be hard to quantify, given that most boats have some permanent vents, dorades etc. On Pleiades I run 5 oil lamps (on lamp oil, not paraffin) plus a charcoal heater and two T lights, all at the same time. Never the slightest problem as I maintain adequate ventilation - backed up by two Co2 detectors and a smoke detector. Previously I had a diesel drip fed heater but was never happy with even resting when that was burning, a much more dangerous beastie than the charcoal. Best way to keep warm when in the slug is of course to share bodily warmth with someone of a favourable disposition - failing that buy an extra sleeping bag but put the fires out.
Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5
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Lamp oil is no different to gas, it produces water vapour as well @ the same ratio`s
 
sailorman said:
Lamp oil is no different to gas, it produces water vapour as well @ the same ratio`s
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Not as I understand it. Hydrocarbons from various gases to petrol to diesel have varying amounts of carbon and hydrogen. The hydrogen oxidising gives water but carbon oxidising gives carbon dioxide in plenty of oxygen or carbon monoxide if not plenty of oxygen. So gas will genrally give more water than lamp oil which givwes more CO2 or CO.
olewill sticking his neck out cos some on this forum know far more about this than me. Vic?
 
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