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> 3. Install a real good fan that moves some serious air and that can be
> activated at the dock. In my case, I blow into the engine room. By
leaving
> it running when you are the dock, you will eventually replace the fuel
smell
> with fresh air.
>
>
> Interesting comment - are you supposed to install an engine room blower
fan
> to blow hot (smoky?) engine room air out one vent and let it naturally
suck
> into the other ........ or .......are you supposed to install them so they
> suck in fresh air and let them exhaust naturally out the other (or any
other
> escape hole)????????
Neither. What I am recommending is a fan which blows fresh air into the
engine room and which relies on the engine room vents to allow the air to
exaust. When I purchased the boat, it had a single exaust fan which I
though was counter productive. My engines were sucking air and the engine
room fan was sucking air. Why make it difficult for the engines to get air?
I believe in applying a positive pressure to the engine room. Whatever the
engines don't use, will escape out the vents. PROVISO: I believe you should
also have the ability to exaust the engine room if the need arises but an
old sea dog advised that while creating a vacum (in the event of fire)
sounded good, they relied on starving the fire by sealing off all fresh air
feeds as opposed to sucking the fire dead. He explained that there was too
much risk in sucking the fire into an unwanted area.
Shaun aboard Rana III
