{"id":38719,"date":"2022-04-12T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=38719"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:00:11","slug":"mindbender-375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2022\/04\/mindbender-375\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What highly effective chemical is banned for us in antifouling paint in the U.S. on most recreational boats?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Ellen Franco, Watsonville, CA, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question on propane gas. &#8220;There are three properties I know of that make propane a dangerous gas on a boat. It is colorless, has no natural odor and it is explosive. So, if it leaks from a hose, hose fitting or a tank into the bilge, it can be ignited by a spark to make an explosion. That&#8217;s why we have solenoid shut off switches at the tank and why tanks have to be stowed in compartments that drain overboard instead of into the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What highly effective chemical is banned for us in antifouling paint in the U.S. on most recreational boats? &nbsp; Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing. &nbsp; Congratulations to Ellen Franco, Watsonville, CA, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question on propane gas. &#8220;There are three properties I know of that make propane a dangerous gas on a boat. It is colorless, has no natural odor and it is explosive. So, if it leaks from a hose, hose fitting or a tank into the bilge, it can be ignited by a spark to make an explosion. That&#8217;s why we have solenoid shut off switches at the tank and why tanks have to be stowed in compartments that drain overboard instead of into the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38719\/revisions\/38720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}