zoidberg
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Tamar River Sailing Club..... this morning.
Go on, speculate!
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Tamar River Sailing Club..... this morning.
Go on, speculate!
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It's now for sale. Going cheap.
Fiddlesticks
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Didn't pay his bill?
Lucky Duck
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Should that be Tamar River Sailing Club?
The old forum favourite would be the dehumidifier.
The old forum favourite would be the dehumidifier.
Clancy Moped
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The other boats look unscathed, strange no?
Kukri
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Not a gas explosion; looks like a fire that started slowly and in the cabin so I’ll go with the dehumidifier.
The forumite who will be able to tell from a photograph is Pyrojames, as it’s his business (ships, tower blocks, etc. rather than just yachts) but he would have to charge!
The forumite who will be able to tell from a photograph is Pyrojames, as it’s his business (ships, tower blocks, etc. rather than just yachts) but he would have to charge!
crown22
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Sadly we new an elderly couple in the Club Nautico Arenal. They died in the fire on their boat in Spring
2014.Since then I've never slept on our boat without disconnecting shore power and switching off
batteries.I sleep in the buff so car keys and marina pass card by companionway. Smoke and CO alarms
obviously. Sounds over the top maybe but you lose somebody you know it makes you think.
2014.Since then I've never slept on our boat without disconnecting shore power and switching off
batteries.I sleep in the buff so car keys and marina pass card by companionway. Smoke and CO alarms
obviously. Sounds over the top maybe but you lose somebody you know it makes you think.
JumbleDuck
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Is that near the Yorpoint Ferry?
lw395
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Yorpoint being?
lw395
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Could be batteries. Seems to have a lot of solar on the arch?
So much for people wanting their insurance premiums cut.
doug748
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Yes, intriguing suggestion.
There has been a lot of strong sunshine in the area. I found my 10 watt panel was making an 110 amp battery fizz yesterday.
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FlyingGoose
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Excuse my ignorance would a good solar controller not dump the excess load before it hit the batteries ,
As speculating who knows but how lucky were the boats beside this one , did the yard put the fire out or the fire brigade
As speculating who knows but how lucky were the boats beside this one , did the yard put the fire out or the fire brigade
LONG_KEELER
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Yamar River Sailing Club..... this morning.
Go on, speculate!
That's horrible
Perhaps the sparky type boat owners can tell the rest of us how this could have happened.
Wouldn't a solar controller or additional fuse stop an overcharge ?
Or dehumidifier a trip going if shore power ?
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zoidberg
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In another century and another incarnation, I learned and re-learned that automatic safety 'cutout' devices are all very well, and fairly reliable, but they DO NOT remove the need to maintain a monitoring overwatch on them.
I fully endorse the above request that competent boat 'leckys on 'ere give us some Chapter and Verse Advice on maintaining electrical safety when laid up ashore.
Perhaps PaulRainbow is the chap for that.....
I fully endorse the above request that competent boat 'leckys on 'ere give us some Chapter and Verse Advice on maintaining electrical safety when laid up ashore.
Perhaps PaulRainbow is the chap for that.....
zoidberg
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Now confirmed as arson. CCTV tape with police.
The boat's own ladder was padlocked/inaccessible. Another, loose, ladder was found propped against the transom.
The club had long entreated members to lock up their ladders.....
....there are now NO ladders loose in the yard!
Perhaps your club/boatyard might care to have a think about this.
The boat's own ladder was padlocked/inaccessible. Another, loose, ladder was found propped against the transom.
The club had long entreated members to lock up their ladders.....
....there are now NO ladders loose in the yard!
Perhaps your club/boatyard might care to have a think about this.
fredrussell
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Seems odd. There are better targets for arson surely? A nice old barn for instance. Was there not a wooden boat in the yard?
Sandyshore
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Local paper says police and fire believe this was a deliberate act.
greeny
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A deliberate act!
So another long post of all sorts of speculation comes to nothing. Did anyone speak with the owner in all this. If it was my boat I'd have been pretty pissed of at you all questioning my electrical systems and defficiences and maybe even my ability.
The phrase "keep you own counsel" springs to mind, at least until some real facts are available.
I appreciate that lots of people are bored at the moment but for heavens sake, go and cut the lawn instead guys.
So another long post of all sorts of speculation comes to nothing. Did anyone speak with the owner in all this. If it was my boat I'd have been pretty pissed of at you all questioning my electrical systems and defficiences and maybe even my ability.
The phrase "keep you own counsel" springs to mind, at least until some real facts are available.
I appreciate that lots of people are bored at the moment but for heavens sake, go and cut the lawn instead guys.
doug748
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Cant see that anyone's - defficiences or abilities - have been questioned in this particular case. I am sure everyone was, and is, very sympathetic to the owners plight.
I know I have just covered my solar panel and put an alarm on board, on the strength of it.
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PhillM
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It is horrible to think that somone would want to do that. Whatever the circumstances, my sympathies are with the owner.
