A marine exhaust hose must be carefully designed to carry toxic and/or noxious gases outside. Indoor enclosed spaces can quickly fill up with poisonous exhaust gases such as hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, if they are not properly vented to the outdoors.
When I’m inspecting the bilge of a boat I naturally test bilge pumps, both electrically and manually operated and I often find problems.
Here are the top problems I find with electric and manual bilge pumps:
I was inspecting a boat for a client and I turned on the water heater that was reported as newly installed. A few minutes after that, I started checking the AC electrical wiring for polarity and found that there was no ground wire connection in the boat. So I turned off the main circuit breaker for the AC system.
I inspected a boat a few days ago and noticed that there was oil in the forward cabin bilge area. Quite a surprise and a good find so I turned off the forward bilge pump automatic float switch and went to work to determine where the leak was coming from.
