How to get the season off with a bang, literally

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Did I ever tell you about the exploding toilet.

I thought of you immediately, Haydn

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Look on the bright side, at least you didn't fill the fuel tanks with water as a pal of mine did a few years ago

Done that already a few years back

 

[MapisM]

you never stop learning with boats

Geez M, you can say that again!
I think that one entire life of boating wouldn't still be enough to envisage the situation you're describing...
Good troubleshooting job, anyway!

 

[hlb]

Done that already a few years back

Yep, same here. Think after time you just get carless.
Mind I did learn that getting water out of diesel, is quite easy.

 

[AdeOlly]

BTW our water tank bangs loudly just as it gets full, and then again as you start to use the water. I'd assumed it was steel and the sides were flexing, you've got me worried it is GRP and cracking.

Snap - the tank on the Hardy did exactly that, and loudly enough to frighten passing children. Was the sign to turn the tap off. Tank of the Jeanneau is silent and just overflows. I kind of miss the bangs.

Mike - a good heads up... at least no major damage done, pride excepted.

 

[harstonwood]

One saw a guy filing his glider water ballast tank (in his wing) with a mains pressure hose..........manufacturers advice is to use containers etc and vent.

Blew his wing apart!

 

[scubaman]

Look on the bright side, at least you didn't fill the fuel tanks with water as a pal of mine did a few years ago

My brother did it the other way around...

My brother. Honestly.