CO detectors on 2000 SR w diesels

[steve mac]

I noticed on our 2000 400 Sundancer that there are no CO detectors anywhere in the cabin or staterooms. The boat is a diesel powered boat and so I didn't know if they were not required in 1999 (when the boat was built, it is a 2000 model year but it was built in 1999). I have had other boats that were model year 1999 and 2001 and they both had CO detectors installed - but both of these boats had gas engines. Can anyone out there with a similar boat / power tell me if they have them installed? And if not from Sea Ray, has anyone added them after?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Four Suns]

My boat (w/diesels) has 4 CO detectors that were installed by Sea Ray. One for each stateroom (3) and one in the salon. They are also all linked together such that if one goes off, they all go off. I think it's a good idea to have them as you never know what stinky gas boat will pull up next to you and park with a generator or engine running. Probably also good for those nights after a boiled cabbage or crabcake dinner.

 

[Lake Erie Boater]

I have 2 onboard. One in the forward Vee birth, one in the main cabin.

Both factory installed.

 

[steve mac]

Thanks Gary. I also think they are a good idea. And will mostly install them myself. Before we bought the boat in Sept, the surveyor pointed it out. He did not think that diesels needed CO detectors in 2000, but I thought that Sea Ray might have put them in anyway - as they did with your 2003.

 

[fwebster]

Sea Ray did not install them as standard equipemnt because they are not required. Later diesels do have them for the same reason we installed them on our 1996....we cruise with and anchor beside severl friends with gasoline powered boats. CO emitted from their exhaust will kill you just as dead as if it came from your boat.

In installed both 12VDC and 120VAC CO detectors, and its an easy, inexpensive add-on.

 

[Converse48]

. Later diesels do have them for the same reason we installed them on our 1996....we cruise with and anchor beside severl friends with gasoline powered boats. CO emitted from their exhaust will kill you just as dead as if it came from your boat.

My CO detectors went off this summer during a particularly steamy night in a raft up with generators running. For the record, the plan was not to run the gennies all night. The guy next to me in his gasser triggered my CO alarms, although he wouldn't admit it. He, at first, refused to turn off his genny. In a rather testy exchange, I told him I wasn't going to risk my children's lives just so he could not have sweaty b*lls. He grudgingly agreed.

Nasty stuff, that gasoline.

 

[osd9]

My diesel 410 has three (I think) CO detectors...one in each stateroom and one in the salon. I also keep a spare AC powered plug in type on board.

I had a run-in similar to Festivus at a Marina while a transient on a trip. Another transient pulled in to a slip to go for dinner or to gamble at the Trump Marina in AC. He was too lazy to plug in, so he started his gas genie and went into the Hotel. Bastard!....I had to get security involved....and we got the genie shutdown....