Hello,
First post here so (very) sorry if this is in the wrong section. I have a Sea Ray 280 Sundancer with twin Merc 4.3s that I keep in dry storage. The boat stays in a building, so a fork lift drives out and puts the boat in the water.
I've read on here the importance of using a bilge blower fan for 4 minutes before starting the engines to ventilate any fuel vapors. I've observed a few times at my marina that the guys moving the boats after they get put into the water want to save time and just start the engines without touching the blower. I get that moving the boats out of the loading slip quickly makes sense but for the small amount of I/O boats at my marina, should extra care be given?
I was thinking of installing a fuel vapor detector alarm that would turn on my bilge fan automatically, but still doing some research.
Thanks
First post here so (very) sorry if this is in the wrong section. I have a Sea Ray 280 Sundancer with twin Merc 4.3s that I keep in dry storage. The boat stays in a building, so a fork lift drives out and puts the boat in the water.
I've read on here the importance of using a bilge blower fan for 4 minutes before starting the engines to ventilate any fuel vapors. I've observed a few times at my marina that the guys moving the boats after they get put into the water want to save time and just start the engines without touching the blower. I get that moving the boats out of the loading slip quickly makes sense but for the small amount of I/O boats at my marina, should extra care be given?
I was thinking of installing a fuel vapor detector alarm that would turn on my bilge fan automatically, but still doing some research.
Thanks
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