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We issued some blunt non-nonsense advice a few weeks ago. The nub is this, any boater using a petrol engine needs to keep their senses open, because if they can smell petrol-engine exhaust fume in the cabin space, turn off the engines and get out immediately. https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/about-us/news-and-press-releases/news-releases/nr18-002-blunt-co-warning-for-petrol-engine-users/ This applies to all petrol engine users, but especially anyone with a large capacity inboard. Love For Lydia at Wroxham was followed by Vasquez in Cardiff Harbour and Mais Ouis in Jersey all in two years, four boaters dead - all running big petrol engines on cruisers with canopies over the back deck. During the MAIB investigation, the engines on Love For Lydia filled the cabin with thousands of ppm of CO in seconds. So the formula is simple 'smell petrol engine exhaust fumes inside = get out now action', end of. It can't be assumed it'll be ok - done it lots of times, I'll know the difference etc, etc, etc. Last week it was two boaters in Georgia, North America who died. This week its four Broads boaters in hospital. Keep your wits about you folks.