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I recall in the 80,s reading of a fire in a GRP yacht where the children of the owner were sleeping in the quarter berth. Attempting to rescue them from outside the companion way he was defeated by dense smoke. Entering via the fwd hatch he could not traverse the saloon due to the vinyl lining on the roof burning and raining molten balls of fire, (this being the cause of the dense smoke). With the children now screaming he exited and smashed through the deck above the Q berth with a crash axe and then extracted them from above. Both survived but had to be hospitalised due to smoke damage to t

I've never had an impeller fail,i change it yearly though, keep the old one for a spare, had one where the pin had worked its way out a bit, I fitted new pump because it wouldn't prime itself after impeller change, had a fair bit of wear in housing, put some rubber grease in and it would seal good enough to start pumping , then it was OK, but it was original 2007 pump, so fitted a new one to be safe

Any time. Sometimes even newish ones - I had one brand new one that looked fine, but wasn't - the rubber, I think, was moving around the metal inner it's mounted on, but only under load....

Haha, I can relate to that. Once we had to leave the boat in Gulf Harbour marina and the next day needed to move it back to it's regular berth. Out of routine and faffing a bit. Anyway, the person who came to 'help' get of out of the berth and thought they'd opened the engine cooling water seacock hadn't actually opened the engine cooling water seacock. I was solo and just starting to lift the revs up from a low idle in that channel bit leaving Gulf Harbour when lights, sirens and alarms starting ringing out. Feck-me it gave me a hell of a fright! Luckily a quick opening of the

Crikey, that is a feckin awful story. Enough to give me nightmares. Might go and sort out my forehatch cover so I can open it form the inside.