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On Thu, 18 May 2006 21:25:08 -0400, DSK wrote:

99% of engine failures are due to either bad/no fuel, or
dead batteries.


I'd argue that cooling system issues are right up there also. Dead
batteries are easily fixed on a boat with a generator of some sort.

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Default Chuck, what's wrong with this picture?

99% of engine failures are due to either bad/no fuel, or
dead batteries.



Wayne.B wrote:
I'd argue that cooling system issues are right up there also. Dead
batteries are easily fixed on a boat with a generator of some sort.


Good point, but if your engine is overheated you can usually
wait for it to cool down and then idle along.... unless
you've run it to the melt-down point.

The genius who formerly owned our boat tied the generator
start battery to a couple of lights & fans so that it could
be dead, too (and it was). Some people deserve to pay higher
tow insurance!

Fair Skies
Doug King

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Default Chuck, what's wrong with this picture?

jps wrote:
Staying put can be a dicey situation. Say you're in a following sea and
it's foggy and you're in shipping lanes that feature mega ton vessels
that take miles to slow down and that engine craps out 'cause you nearly
pitchpoled on a wave. It won't start and you're hearing bridge-to-
bridge communications on channel 14 that confirms your radar display's
suggestion that a tanker is bearing down on your position.


Is that likely to happen in the ICW?


BTW just for perspective, those tankers & other big ships
rely on single engine power.

DSK

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