T&T: Federal Law re Using Blower Before Starting Engine

[Keith]

Nothing beats sticking your nose into the engine room and giving it a sniff
before starting.




Keith
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A few years back we were eating lunch with my daughter and her husband at an
outdoor cafe at the Flats on the bank of the Cuyahoga river...  About 50
feet from us was a wood hulled ChrisCraft moored to the wall and the couple
at the next table were the owners... After we left as we were driving out of
the flats area we heard sirens and saw a thick column of black smoke back
towards the river... The next day my daughter called us to say that couple
had gone back to their boat and when they started it there was an engine
room explosion and flaming gasoline was ejected onto the tables where we had
been sitting...
The couple were critically burned...  SInce then I notice that my son in law
runs the blowers on his Sea Ray longer then he used to, before hitting the
starter...

denny / k8do