ghostlymoron
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Probably, its only a small boat.
Is there enough gas in one of those canisters to blow up a boat? ;-)
Is there enough gas in one of those canisters to blow up a boat? ;-)
A disposable gas cannister holds 227g of butane, which is 4.72 mol and therefore occupies 106 litres at stp. The lower and upper explosive limits for butane are 1.8% and 8.4%, so that one cartridge will form an explosive mixture in a total volume of 1290 to 5890 litres, or 1.29 to 5.89 m3.
It could be you!
Well that isn't actually true is it? If you said 99% you;d have some wiggle room but I can personally think of three gas explosions on boats that I can recall in the last 30 odd years (that makes an average of one per 10 years, not 20, and that's only the ones I can personally recollect) and I came within a split second of a potentially fatal explosion due to a split gas pipe (not my boat, not my gas pipe, words were had!)
It's a poetic truth.
My figures indicate that you are 2500 times more likely to score a massive win on the lottery than explode on a boat. How likely does that feel.
My figures indicate that you are 2500 times more likely to score a massive win on the lottery than explode on a boat.
That's a 'yes', I think, isn't it?
But think how gutted you'd be if you did one and then did the other a week later.
I don't know how much gas stoves are, but Origos are eye watering expensive for what they are!
Gas is safe if you have two brain cells to rub together.
Origo cookers work on geological timescales to boil or cook anything.
They fill the boat with the stink of meths / spirits.
Gaz is expensive to refill but I use less than a 907 bottle per season now pubs offer meals inc breakfasts.
marvellous
nothing to break, cheap to run
can smell a bit ****
but then the hatch is open anyway
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