On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:53:44 +0100, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

Your first problem is LPG.... In a boat it is bomb just waiting to go off.
Use CNG, it is lighter than air. LPG is not.

Gasoline vapor is heavier than air, the historic reason many have had
for useing Diesel. I saw a boat that had had a gasoline explosion. A
glass boat, the deck hull joint had failed, among other things. Wonder
it didn't burn to the water line. Boat was Diesel, but the dingy was
not. You can't get the 28 HP Yanmar Diesel , that dingy wise is
suitable for a twenty foot tender for a megayacht. Over three hundred
pounds. You have you have have a propane locker with an outside door,
vented overboard, and with a shutoff valve operated from the stove by
remote control. I had a propane furnace and there was a thousand
gallons in the tank. The plumbing didn't have to contend with the hull
flexing in the waves. Houses blow up from natural gas regularly. When
it happens you can often hear it for miles.

There is a lot to be said for CNG and for a generator and electric
stove. Some have a propane grill on the stern rail and do all their
cooking, making coffee. Keeps the moisture out of the cabin. And it's
safe.

It is snowing heavily here. Not a blizzard, no wind. We have 4wd to
get to the plowed street without having to shovel the drive. When it
comes to getting out of the ditch after you slide off the road, a
shovel is surefire and 4wd is not, but it helps. A Unimog with chains
is good. Mine doesn't run.

Casady