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From: Pascal Gademer (no email)
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 18:36:28 EDT
not on a trawler... but interesting experience...
I'm delivering a 70' Johnson to Nantucket, owner bought the boat 2 weeks
ago, full survey, sea trials, etc... i was also advising her on the purchase
and have spent a lot of time on the boat in the past 2 or 3 weeks.
30 miles into the trip this morning, aft ER bilge pump comes on twice... I
got down to the ER to investigate and finds a big diesel puddle under the
stbd engine... talk about an oh s..t moment. I quickly see that the sight
hose from the stbd tank is lying in the bilge and spilling fuel. I close
the valve at the bottom, put the hose back on and .. surprise.. the clamps
were never tightened up!
the boat has been running like that for 5 years... I suspect that the
watermaker intaller bumped it last week, pulling it off the most of the
barbed fitting... it held for a while and finally let go today...
spent some time cleaning the fuel up, pumping it into 5 gallons jugs and
cleaning... could have been worst i guess, like happening when nobody was
on the boat or at night.
so lesson learned... on a "new" boat, check hose clamps!!!
pascal
miami,fl
70 hatteras 53
live helmcam www.sandbarhopper.com (currently broadcasting from Johnson 70
heading up to Nantucket)
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