Engine Protection by heaters might be useless

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I guess he also selected some of his mates boats to have power and some awkward pompous stinkers that never speak to him might have been the first to go ?


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They are a good judge of character, it seems /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I wouldn't speak to him either /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I got back to the marina after New Years night away to find the bollard i usually used wasnt working.
Tried resetting all the trips but still failed, so I guessed that one of the two other boats must have been tripping.

I used another bollard and then phoned the marina to tell them.
they were going to unplug each boat to establish who was tripping, phone then to tell them what they had done....

all quite civilised and no need for a raggie/stinky debate!
 
I think in this case it was not a single boat causing the tripping rather a combined total of all the boats, indicating a bad electrical installation. The people paying mooring fees to this marina need to take this up with the management and get it sorted to save this sort of problem in the future.
 
Every Marina I have used has always had a clause in the leccy contract that says they cant guarantee supply......In fact one told me quite sternly one year when I asked about shore power that I didnt normally use....(didnt stay there too long...)

after all if the whole area gets cut off there is nothing the marina can do....cept a genny....
 
Forget trying to heat my lump in my 25ft sailboat. The engine pokes into the cockpit bilge and is impossible to heat the space. I try and keep cabin temp up - hope it helps. But even when cabin is +5 ... +10, I frequently find the engine bilge frozen.
 
quote My thoughts are that your friend, who was living aboard against the rules, was probably using more power than any other individual boat. Maybe if he had left his boat without power the others may have been left connected! Maybe if he wasn't there at all, the power would not have gone off in the first place.

you beat me to it! Im guessing by the language employed, e.g. big stinkers etc we are dealing with a yachtie with antisocial tendencies and if he was living aboard illegally in my marina I would be grassing him up immediately.
 
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