A Message from 'Sparky'
By Ron Holmwall, VC Everett Yacht Club [Speaker at BYC, 1 February 2004]
Chapter 1: Don’t Panic
At the request of several of our members, I will recall one of the most
traumatic events of Bev and My boating life, and what we learned from the
experience. On a Monday evening in October, 2001, the phone rang, and
Michael Asbury, a fellow tenant at our marina asked me if I was sitting
down. He then proceeded to tell me our boat was ablaze and a total
loss. We had just returned from a boat trip to Poulsbo, and couldn’t
imagine what could have started the fire. We raced to the scene to find
fire trucks, police, coast guard, the press, and half the marina gathered
to watch the spectacular display. [...]
"Storm sinks 47 boats at Port Orchard Marina" [The SUN, 1996,
By Travis Baker (with photo)]
"But when Bremerton Yacht Club and Brownsville Marina considered what had
happened in Port Orchard and Edmonds, they counted themselves lucky.
Well, maybe not so much lucky as dedicated. Leo Longnecker, vice commodore
of the Bremerton Yacht Club, said: 'It survived because we're a yacht
club.
Volunteers from Friday morning on were shoveling snow and knocking snow
off boat sheds.'"
The Safety
Page [http://www.marinemechanic.com/site/page16.html] [Fire, Power
Tools etc.]
Shore Power Safety:
www.proboat-digital.com/proboat/200604/ p. 56 "Ground Fault, Interrupted" Professional Boatbuilder, April 2006 [bottom: click on
"Shore Power Safety Test", or go to Contents (Top Bar), click on "Ground
Fault, Interrupted (p.56); subsequently, go to "Pages" for pp. 58 and up]
