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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Sometimes (and especially after fueling) blowers are not enough to evacuate fumes. It is always best to open the hatch and sniff before starting engines. In Roche Harbor, WA last year (I think) someone had just refueled and run their blower for five plus minutes and yet the same thing happened to him. It blew the hatch off his engine room into the air.

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Optimus Prime
Now: 2007 Horizon 260, (2007/08 brochure boat)
Previous: 1995 Sea Ray Signature Select 220
Tow: '07 Avalanche LTZ
Seattle and Chelan, WA

that was a pretty big boom here in town. Some of my friends saw it blow, it was a pretty bad deal.

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2000 268 Vista "Reely Nauti"
http://www.facebook.com/#!/rivercruiser

Scary stuff. Good thing for the guys fishing close by to help them out though.

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-Rob.


Current boat: 2011 Yamaha AR210
Previous boat: 1998 Horizon RX 4.3GL SX

I usually gas up on the water at a local gas dock (Northport Long Island) and I am always suprised at how infrequent it is that someone will actually open up the engine hatch and sniff....I see this on all kinds of boats...bowriders...bigger cruisers...etc....I bet many people don't even know that you are supposed to turn OFF the blower and SHUT all the hatches when fueling and then OPEN the engine hatch...SNIFF and then put on the blower...

I've said this before on other threads but this is just one more reason that my next boat will be an outboard.....

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

I've said this before on other threads but this is just one more reason that my next boat will be an outboard.....

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Jeff
2006 H240 6.2 MX 320HP B3
La Habra, California

I don't get it....just what advantages of modern outboards do you not understand...does not take up room in the rear of the cockpit......same HP with 400 lbs less weight on the stern....no bellows to leak water in the blige and ruin your gimble bearing and ujoints...no issue with engine misalignment and coupler problems...corrosion resistant construction designed for salt water use...and no fume in the blige worry....now that you have to have CAT coverters on sterndrives...I can't see why someone wouldn't want an OB on a small boat...today's OBs are not the smokey rough running 2 stokes of years gone by and FW is losing market share by NOT selling boats with them....

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

LOUC

I agree with you about outboards vs inboards, FW should offer both in their horizon and smaller boat
lineup. Outboards also allow you to go in shallower water. My horizon has an old Johnson that still runs
great 13 years later. I wish FW offered outboards on their newer boats, more pluses than minuses IMO.

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2011 Bennington 2075 GLi
2012 Key West 211 DC
2005 Four winns 180 Horizon LE
1997 Horizon QXsold
2000 248 Vistasold
2002 Key West 2020WA sold