I always had a concern about fire on my 38 foot Californian so I got a cardox system installed. Knowing that my engine room would fill with C02 if I had a fire was comforting. I carried 600 gallons of gasoline with 4 full tanks.

Smart move for sure. With 600 gallons of fuel you would never be able to get far enough away if the boat caught fire. People do realize fire can start in many ways. My plug must have had a bad or dirty connection and heat was produced and melted the insulation between the conductors where they went into the plug. The resulting dead short caused a flash and that's all it took.

Yep, doesn't take long from spark to fire.

That must have been an expensive boat to run OT.

I am glad to hear that your boat is working fine again for you CI..

WOW! OT you have a big boat. I would be hard pressed to fill the tank in that one. Something like that I would have use In saltwater and with my expertise they would be sending a search party out looking for me.. lol

Maybe you and Phil can team up on the " 3s " count. So we can count the " boat fire " , " the camp fire " and the " dead mower battery " all as the 3s count . Do that and " the team " is good to go for at least another year before the next set of 3 starts . LOL

It looks like CI has 2 things already. I have 2 things as well because around a month ago while I was making a right hand turn I got run into. That one caused me to replace my tires because 1 had a side wall ripped. That and along with inner and outer tie rods had to be replaced. A few small scratches down the passenger side to boot. I was driving my Jeep when it happened. My tires are 10 plies because of traveling the dirt roads going back and forth from camp. I lucked out on tires by hitting the last day of a sale. Buy 3 and get 1 free and the insurance paid for 1 tire so I actually only had to pay for 2 tires.. Now I wonder what number 3 will bring me..

They do say they come in 3s...
lol

Gasoline prices were a lot lower when I owned that boat so if I kept out of the secondaries the fuel consumption wasn't bad. It was nice knowing I had a lot more speed if one of the famous Chesapeake squalls popped up and wanted to get off the water. I like cruising at a leisurely pace, I was never one of those who threw off the lines then ran h*ll bent for leather to my destination just to tie up again. Right after I sold the Californian the gas prices started to go ballistic.

Most people I know who own boats in that class seldom take them out off the dock. Most live on them on weekends in the summer like a floating camp. They seem to have a pretty good time with the social scene though. Here on Lake Champlain it is a mix of both pleasure boats and sail boats.