I was not surprised to read of the concern about petrol generators on boats, and a boat moored next to me showed just how dangerous they are.
I was in Audlem at the visitor moorings when a man came to the boat I was next too, opened up his cratch cover and revealed a petrol generator, that he started, then going round to the stern of his boat to gain entry.
I am not complaining about the noise as I was moored at his stern and my living quarters were at the far end away from his boat, but I did wonder about the dangers, as that night the wind was blowing into his bow, which meant surely that carbon monoxide would be going through any cracks in the double doors into his boat, as he had no extension to his silencer to take the gasses away.
As the smoke from the engine was drifting towards my boat, and obviously carbon monoxide, I lost no time in upping sticks and moving windward of him. He left his cratch cover open, obviously in an attempt to get rid of the gasses I should imagine.
But what a fool.
Ray Gibbons