Jim, The fire blanket onboard makes great sense. If I had one available back in 1979 it would have been un-necessary to clean up all that dry chem. BTW, dry chem everywhere including in your hair is un-pleasant when sailing upwind in the trades.
I am going to put one onboard Calypso. Martin Calypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle [cid:D1BF9853-22F7-47FB-86F2-4115CE0BAF2F] From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Jim Watts Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:48 AM To: 1 CnC List Subject: Re: Stus-List ABYC compliance issue. For galley fires, I went with the Safety at Sea recommendation and put a fire blanket on the boat as a first line of defense. No mess to clean up afterwards and only $10 at Home Depot. I was so impressed I put one in the pantry at home, too. Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 17 April 2014 10:52, Martin DeYoung <mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com<mailto:mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com>> wrote: The diesel engine fire video demonstrates one of the reasons Calypso has an automatically deployed Halon (aprox 10lb) fire extinguisher mounted in the engine space. I had firefighting classes as part of my merchant marine training and have fought a fire underway (in 1979 on a C&C 39, galley fire, 2 days NE of Hawaii) that took 3 small dry chem extinguishers to put down. I am a fan of having several smaller extinguishers in handy locations, larger ones near the likely risks (engine/battery spaces and galley), and the automatic type if a fire could start undetected. I also have small dry chem's mounted near likely exit points (especially up forward) in case someone is trapped by a fire near the campionway. When I was fighting the C&C 39 fire my wife was stuck forward by the head and could not get on deck (where some of the crew was preparing the life raft in case the fire spread) without passing through a cloud of dry chem and smoke. The insurance requirement for the engine space fire port is reasonable for coastal sailing where assistance is close by and/or one could make for shore quickly. If your plans include some offshore voyages I recommend looking into a upgrade to the auto deploy type extinguishers. There are some smaller sizes that are easy to mount with self-contained heat activated release mechanisms. Martin Calypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle
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