Windy 52

[MapisM]

Could a supplier have a clause in a contract limiting their liability to the cost of the tank for example?

Yep, that's more than likely. The point Deleted User made still stands though, 'cause it has to see with commercial relationship rather than contractual obligations.

 

[jfm]

Doh! I didn't think about that. I guess that the larger single part is the drum, and when disassembled it easily goes through the 40/42 cm of a crew cabin door, correct?

Washing machines are easy because drum is much smaller dia then the 60cm width of machine. So 40- 45cm crew door is ok. Tumble driers are harder because nowadays the drum dia is perhaps 56cm. To get through a crew door you are relying on drum depth to be about 45cm which it usually is, if you take off the drum bearing. Can be very close though...
Fwiw btw squadron 78 has a 65x65 cm soft patch in aft deck to allow you to lower new domestic machines into crew cabin below. There is Ali space frame under the few and the soft patch unbolts from the Ali box section. I'd much prefer to break the machines down and go thru the 50cm crew door, but they give you the choice. To use the soft patch you have to replace 14 or so teak deck planks too, as with any soft patch.

 

[Assassin]

Isn't that what product liability insurance is for? Could a supplier have a clause in a contract limiting their liability to the cost of the tank for example?

You can claim for consequential losses.

 

[spannerman]

Find it hard to understand why such a great depth of fuel was sloshing in the bilge and had not pumped out via bilge pump.
Then again I pointed out to the proud owner of similar boat at LBS a few years ago there was not a bilge pump in the stern of his lazzarette
Assume boat did have bilge pumps?

The fuel wasn't down in the bottom of the V between the engines, the Inner stringers on the Xanthos are very deep and this acted as a dam so the fuel had drained out of the tank run down over the outer stringer which supports the outboard engine mounts but was held back by the inner stringer which supports the inboard engine mounts, that's why the shaft log was covered by the diesel. It could have risen higher but it found a way through the engine bulkhead via the a/c trunking into the forward outboard sections. So fortunately it never got near the bilge pump which would have been an even bigger headache if diesel was pumped into the harbour.

 

[stelican]

Dreadful mess for you to rectify. Hope Windy now put limber holes through the stringers. I am sure you would agree that attention to detail can be so important, Never particularly impressed with features of their build.
In this case a few simple pieces of pipe through the stringers would have prevented the mayhem into the accommodation.
Live and learn!

 

[jfm]

Yup, very odd that there are no limber holes in the stringers. (even though, on this occasion, it kept the fuel out of the harbour)

 

[U4]

Thats a really bad fabrication error which should never have happened. Anyway at least they put it right. I'm slightly surprised that the new owner accepted the boat after the repair. It is almost impossible to mask the smell of a big diesel spillage in a boat

I'm surprised as well.....

Why would the owner accept a brand new boat that had suffered a massive diesel spillage?

 

[MapisM]

Yup, very odd that there are no limber holes in the stringers.

Limber holes, makes me wonder for how long I will remember that, instead of calling them drain holes...!
I don't think it's so rare not to have any in the stringers, though.
Can't tell by heart on which hulls, but I'm pretty sure to have seen several without them...

 

[longjohnsilver]

I'm surprised as well.....

Why would the owner accept a brand new boat that had suffered a massive diesel spillage?

Yes, I was wondering that. I almost certainly wouldn't. I'd be very surprised if the smell was totally eliminated.