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Electrical fires are one of the most common causes of fire on vessels like ours. Have a plan - You MUST be able to turn off the batteries, or the fire may re-ignite. Extinguishers in service and at multiple locations. 1/Shut off batts. 2/Shut off air and fuel 3/ use fire fighting systems, installed or hand held. Hopefully all this while another crew member issues a mayday, and another gets the raft ready... My maritime fire fighting course just confirmed that you are unlikely to control a serious fire - get ready to get off!! Oh, and if you have a race yacht and it's a lithium batte

They need to get over it , all the fan worm has disappeared from my Westhaven pier?

If they are still using the figaro sniffers-I dont have much confidence as we used to test them for a Government department and had a roughly 50% fail rate on the gas detectors ☠️

Good tip I found on SBW forums is squirt dishwashing liquid into the impeller housing when fitting a new Impeller . Protects it from the dry start up after changeover .

Ah yes, understood.

That fire video is terrifying!

Worksafe have no authority over a pleasure craft/non-commercial vessel. There may be some applicability to marinas and their risk management of gas on boats in their facility. My boat doesn't meet NZ regs, but it simply means my insurance doesn't cover any issue or accident caused by the gas system. Seems fair. I am baffled overall however with how uptight insurers are getting with long standing customers with well maintained or at least somewhat maintained boats. Yet there's zero requirements or restrictions on experience, training, qualifications, or any general suitability to be i