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Boat Fire could have been much worse

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    Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 1:32pm
Lucky my mate was at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was upstairs in the timber elevated house and his boat was parked right next to the house under a plasticised canvas shade structure attached to the house, the rear of the boat was just under a 10m x 10m timber deck. He heard a loud bang (probably a can of WD40 the end blew off) and went to investigate. Smoke and flames every where, he yelled out and a neighbour came over while her kids called 000, she trained a garden hose over the fire while my mate hooked the boat up, using the safety chain and dragged it away from the house with his ute.

They had the fire out before the fire brigade arrived about 8 mins later. Seems an electrical fault started things off, he had some sort of solid state setup that regulates which of the 2 batteries to charge when running, not sure how that works, however it wasn't a setup where battery switches absolutely disconnect the battery. The batteries were both pretty new and securely mounted in good quality plastic battery boxes, however stored above them were lure boxes, handlines, WD40 etc.

This is the battery with the melted lure boxes and lures, also blackened and scorched was a gas stove box with canisters in it, the boat pic shows a melted mess on the duck board, that was a small wheelie bin used for rubbish. The motor cowling is blackened however everything looks ok inside, wiring loom, cables and hydraulic steering are no good, the fire also burnt the fuel lines and breather hoses up under the starboard gunwale, 150L under floor, lucky that didn't go. Believe it or not that battery still has life in it, the exposed wires were sparking when it was removed. A few more minutes and the house would have gone too, lucky he was home and lucky he heard a bang.
The boat pic shows a grey canvas engine cover, at the back of that you'll see a rip, that's where a big croc had a go at it down the mouth of the South Alligator River last year!!
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unfortunate, but very lucky.......mick
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OOOHHHH NASTY - but very luckyShocked
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