GENERAL INFORMATION
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POOR VENTILATION
Under certain running and/or wind conditions, permanently
enclosed or canvas enclosed cabins or cockpits with insufficient
ventilation may draw in carbon monoxide. Install one or more
carbon monoxide detectors in your boat.
Although the occurrence is rare, on a very calm day, swimmers
and passengers in an open area of a stationary boat that contains,
or is near, a running engine may be exposed to a hazardous level
of carbon monoxide.
1. Examples of poor ventilation while the boat is stationary:
a -
Running the engine when the boat is moored in a confined
space
b -
Mooring close to another boat that has its engine operating
2. Examples of poor ventilation while the boat is moving:
a -
Operating the boat with the trim angle of the bow too high
b -
Operating the boat with no forward hatches open (station
wagon effect)
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a
b
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