Where is your gas locker on board?

We had/have 2 x 9kg bottles.

One was in cage on the transom, we invested in a stainless steel bottle (to overcome the issues of aesthetics). It was secured with a stainless steel padlock. This bottle was the standby and met the need to have the required Oz BBQ. The 'house' bottle is kept in a vented locker on the bridge deck (its a cat).

The stainless steel bottle was stolen, presumably big bolt croppers, we did not replace it (never having fallen in love with the need to BBQ).

Jonathan
 
davidaprice said:
My Maxi 999 has the gas bottles in its original place: a shelf in the anchor locker (in the bow). The anchor locker of course has a drain hole at its base. But here in Finland we so rarely anchor from the bow that we don't have a bow roller or windlass and the bower anchor is stored in the stern lockers.
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Ours is in the anchor locker on our First 235. Drained and vented. Do suffer from rusty bottles though.
 
This is my gas locker The stainless box can hold 2 x 9kg propane gas bottles and can also be used as a helm seat and storage for other handy items.

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We have our Safefill grp bottle mounted in a s/s cage that is strapped to the stern rail. It hangs outboard and has a cover to keep the sun off it. Works well. Doesnt take up valuable locker space and should a leak occur, it vents over the side with minimal risk. The cage is beefy enough that it would take a serious knock. Made from 10mm 316L. You dont see the cage as its under the cover. Have a look at Safefill bottles. No rusty marks on deck amd can be filled at the local propane suppliers for a lot less than Camping Gas or Calor
 
Sandy said:
I prefer not to think of the consequences if ever there was an explosion or even worse where one gas cylinder heats another and then that explodes, there is a word for it but I can't recall it.

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That is the exact reason I built a stainless steel locker to contain my gas cylinders and to give some protection from fire if ever my boat had a fire on board. The idea is the not stop the fire from getting to the cylinders but to slow down the fire from heating the cylinder thus giving time to do some thing about it.

This is why I cringe at the sight of an open gas cylinder hanging on the stern rail for that exact reason.

A boat in our marina had 2 open gas cylinders hanging off his pushpit with his gas BBQ in between. His boat had an electrical fault and caught fire luckily the fire department got there before the fire spread to the outside.
 
Rogershaw said:
That is the exact reason I built a stainless steel locker to contain my gas cylinders and to give some protection from fire if ever my boat had a fire on board. The idea is the not stop the fire from getting to the cylinders but to slow down the fire from heating the cylinder thus giving time to do some thing about it.

This is why I cringe at the sight of an open gas cylinder hanging on the stern rail for that exact reason.

A boat in our marina had 2 open gas cylinders hanging off his pushpit with his gas BBQ in between. His boat had an electrical fault and caught fire luckily the fire department got there before the fire spread to the outside.
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So you think the gas bottle in the gas locker is safer when you get a fire down below rather than outside? What if the fire down below spreads to the gas locker on its way to outside? If the fire is so big that you are worried about the gas bottle hanging over the back of the boat then your boat is a goner.
Ps. We dont have a gas bbq
 
geem said:
So you think the gas bottle in the gas locker is safer when you get a fire down below rather than outside? What if the fire down below spreads to the gas locker on its way to outside? If the fire is so big that you are worried about the gas bottle hanging over the back of the boat then your boat is a goner.
Ps. We dont have a gas bbq
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Yes if the fire is that big I would like to have as mush time as possible as possible to abandon ship and get far enough away so that I and my crew will not be in danger of being killed by the explosion of the LPG cylinders as in the Video posted by Sandy.

If the fire spreads from the inside to the outside via the gas locker I would want to delay for as long as possible the fire getting into the gas locker and heating the cylinder until I and my crew are at a safe distance.
 
TQA said:
Transverse locker in the stern vents through the transom. Holds 2 x 20 lb ali bottles
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Mine has two small bottles. It also vents through a small grill into the cockpit, although I doubt whether it'd drain through the cockpit drains. Air turbulence is likely to keep it from filling the cockpit and draining into the bilge, but they get a dozen pumps on e,pty every time I pump the bilge anyway.
 
I have a section of a cockpit locker partitioned off in ply, holds two 4.5kg Calor bottles plus space for a petrol can and a few other bits and bobs. Drain to cockpit.
However I wasn't convinced if its gas-tightness (no seal at the top either) so I have switched to paraffin now.
 
Dedicated gas locker at the aft of the cockpit, drains directly through the transon, well above the waterline. Room for four 4.5kg Calor bottles, or two 4.5kg Calor and two Camping Gaz bottles.
 
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