[Public-List] Fire

[Stephen Gwyn]

Hi,

We had a small fire on the boat over the weekend. I'm entirely 
sure what caused it, possibly a faulty stove, possibly stuff 
falling into the flame. It was out in seconds. Fire extinguishers 
really work. The make a real mess however as you can see in the 
photos here: 
http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/~gwyn/pers/sailing/Fire/index1.html 
Most what you see has already been cleaned up. The mono ammonium 
phosphate powder from the fire extinguishers was vacuumed and 
then wiped up. The soot marks came off with a dilute bleach 
solution.

The only damage that remains is the flaking of the gelcoat of 
the liner. There's a close up in the third picture on that page.
Has anybody seen this before? Should I just sand it off?

SG


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