Comodave
Moderator Emeritus
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2015
- Messages
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- Location
- Au Gres, MI
- Vessel Name
- Black Dog
- Vessel Make
- Formula 41PC
I’m short on details and investigation here, so don’t roast me. But, didn’t it have a smoke detector? I can’t even overcook bacon at home without dealing with one. Even if the fire is advanced too far to fight, why didn’t they at an absolute minimum have time to know it’s as happening? To escape?
On my 41’ boat I have 5 smoke detectors that are linked wirelessly. I will be adding 2 more because I am adding a house bank inside a cabinet in the salon, so it will get a detector and one on the flybridge so I can hear if they activate while I am at the helm. It would seem that a boat with that many lives on board would have a better system for smoke detection than I do. I was removing a through hull that had wood backing plate and I used a multi tool to cut it. It made some small amount of smoke. The alarms started going off and in the end I had to remove the batteries from all of them to get them to be quiet. I am not familiar with the smoke detector required on that boat, but it should be better than what they had or didn’t have.