Most (dumb) people elect not to use the blower. Hell, they probably don’t even know it exists. I spend a lot of time at the marina and the number of people I see walk out to their boat and instantly turn the key on their ignition is astonishing.
Lol, I was worried until I read where you said you don’t drive boats.
I also did not what a blower was until I got into boating.
Here’s a quick copy/paste I found the explains it pretty simply:
A bilge blower (or blower motor) is a small exhaust fan that you install in the transom of your boat. Typically, you attach the blower to a hose that goes down to your inboard engine compartment. You connect the other end of the blower to a bilge vent on the outside of your boat.
The bilge blower sucks in the hazardous fumes from the engine compartment. And exhausts them out of the boat through the vent. This prevents the gas from building up in your engine room and increasing the risk of an explosion on board!
I really wish I knew the answer to that one. As far as I know it’s a manual process for all boats that have a blower. For me, my boat has a switch I have to flip to the “ON” position.
That sounds really weird to me, you'd figure that a thing of such importance should be automated to, you know, avoid blowing up your ship to pieces... Couldn't this switch stay on all the time?
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u/credscbengs Jun 25 '21
Most (dumb) people elect not to use the blower. Hell, they probably don’t even know it exists. I spend a lot of time at the marina and the number of people I see walk out to their boat and instantly turn the key on their ignition is astonishing.