BaldEagle
08-22-2006, 12:09 AM
Just a heads up. While at the Up North MADCOW get together at Torch Lake, we pulled in to the Donzi Section, as Gold-N-Rod put it, of the 200 boat sand bar party and Tony graciously provided valet docking for us rafting off of his volvo powered red machine. We had fenders out and all was well. Except we didnt realize that the fender was contacting on his gas tank vent. The new Donzi vents are flush nounted while the older style have exterior vent cowlings that cover the vent hose and a sort of snap ring arrangement that keeps the vent hose from pullng back through the hull. The retainer broke off from the fender contacting it, allowing the vent hose to fall back through the hull so it was lying inside the boat. By coincidnce Tony had a water leak in a heat exhanger. Following him home we noticed a lot of water coming out of his drain. I thought maybe the gas tank was leaking. Investigating the source of the water leak the next moring Tony discovered the gas vent hose lying inside the bow, fortunately before we fueled up which would have filled his bow area with raw gas fumes. We came up with a rather un-romantic quick fix, see Was Anyone up at Torch lake thread. http://www.iboats.com/mall/index.cgi?session_id=&cart_id=000000000&category_id=238202&view_id=238202&search_type=category
This link, hope I did it correctly, show both types of vents. The first vent is the current Donzi style that is a flush mount. Mine has a 3 x 3" backing plate, maybe out of marine board, on the inside of the hull. The 90 degree vent fitting goes through the hull and backing plate, and a rubber hose is DOUBLE clamped to it. see photos. One of the older styles is the one for $10.78. fifth one down. Att are some photos of how the new ones look.
FYI if you raft or even if a dock hits your vent it could release the retainer clip and your vent hose could end up inside your boat. Thats the Kaboom part.
This link, hope I did it correctly, show both types of vents. The first vent is the current Donzi style that is a flush mount. Mine has a 3 x 3" backing plate, maybe out of marine board, on the inside of the hull. The 90 degree vent fitting goes through the hull and backing plate, and a rubber hose is DOUBLE clamped to it. see photos. One of the older styles is the one for $10.78. fifth one down. Att are some photos of how the new ones look.
FYI if you raft or even if a dock hits your vent it could release the retainer clip and your vent hose could end up inside your boat. Thats the Kaboom part.