[Psml] Near Zero Emission Genset's

[John & Judy Gill]

Dockstoy and List,

Our old generator gave up the ghost on the last leg of our America's  
Great Loop trip (6,724 miles).  When we returned to our home port  
marina, we had a Westerbeke CO Safe generator installed.  If you read  
the owner's manual carefully, you will understand that while they are  
the safest generators on the market, nothing is fool proof and that  
all prudent precautions should be taken.

We certainly would not put our mouth to the exhaust and breath the  
fumes.  Nor would we leave the generator running while swimming off  
the swim platform.

Our advise to you is to install one 12 volt Marine CO detector on  
your boat and ALSO buy two (or more) of the new 110 Volt CO detectors  
which measure in parts per million.  Plug one in an outlet in your  
salon and another in each sleeping area.  These units are amazingly  
accurate.  The firm that tried to repair our old generator had a  
professional CO detector that cost him several thousands of dollars  
and ours only measured 2 ppm more than his!  The 12 volt units we  
have seen do not have gauges that read in ppm's.

John and Judy Gill
Two J's V
AGLCA Loopers
Pennsway Power Squadron in D/5
Orillia Power Squadron, CPS-ECP

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On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:25 AM, dockstoy wrote:

> Does anyone have any information on the new Near Zero Emission  
> Generators that are being offered on new boats. I’m rafting up with  
> boaters and they don’t seem to have any concerns about the dangers  
> of Carbon Monoxide. As one boater said last night to me that you  
> could put your mouth to the exhaust of the genset and you’d be OK.   
> My concern is the public being lulled into a false sense of  
> security or do these new genset’s really eliminate those concerns.   
> Is zero emissions really that.?
>
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