After 2 years with the current boat we found a screen shade in the bilge last weekend and what a difference it made to the temperature Looked in the same place yesterday and found another bag with another screen shade in so we now have a mesh and a solid version. Wait long enough and 2 will appear together, just waiting to find a winning lottery ticket now.
Would that be the same bilge that had a leaking fuel tank in it?
Image of diesel running down your screen - that'll help next time it rains!!
I had a Thorneycroft lump in the Ocean, my bilges were places to never go without a whole body degreasing kit to clean me afterwards.
Things that went down there were abandoned! I did chuck buckets of hot water and detergent down there from time to time, swirled it about and poked it with a brush on a stick and sucked it out with a Pela pump which I carefully emptied all over a local patch of nettles that lived beside the path to the mooring.
I was hoping the foul black mess would kill off the nettles but they flourished, they obviously thought I was fertilising them!
Moral - nothing can compete with the contaminating power of Thorneycroft engines! But nettles are resistant even to Thorneycroft!
Under the cabin floor and pretty clean too. Fuel tanks are in the engine bay and the drain tube is plugged between so nothing nasty goes between and the fuel leak was just a tiny weep, I can go into my engine bay barefoot and keep my feet clean, no nasties involved except the odd spash of water. I hate boats where the smell of old oil and diesel gets through every thing and lingers.
Like buses!
Posted - 20 Jul 2018 : 11:56:00
