My husband is what polite company would call meticulous. I sometimes have another word for it. Something he has always insisted on is an hourly engine room check when we are underway. We do this whether we're out for a day cruise on the Penobscot Bay or heading offshore overnight. In the beginning I thought he was just "being Jeff" but after discovering some potentially serious issues before they became big problems I realized how important this routine is to our safety.
A week or so ago Jeff did a video about the broken hose clamps he found during our overnight trip to Charleston. Losing a hose to a water intake could sink the boat. The engine room checks discovered it when it was just a drip and not a gusher. He thought the video was a good illustration of the importance of simple safety precautions such as engine room checks. Apparently others agreed.
OceanLines, the online passagemaking magazine, ran his video this week to emphasize this point. See what they said at The Underway Engine Room Check: Why You Need It.
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