> Boat US couldn't put together an accurate article on fire extinguishers 2 > months ago. Did you see that? Had the PASS acronym wrong, and several > other > bits of incorrect info stated as fact. The video on their website had it > right, but the printed version was absolute garbage. I wrote and asked > them > to correct themselves but they feel that since the video was right people > would watch it and get the right message. <SNIP> The insurance publications remind me of newspapers. Used to, you could just read a newspaper for the facts; now editorials routinely appear on the front page. Think the same might be true of Boat US. Keith hit the nail on the head. Their damage statistics have to be accurate or they couldn't stay in business. Just read the numbers and draw your own conclusions. One I draw is that the number of boats lost due to computer fires shrinks to the vanishing point. Just use your computer with the usual caveats and do a GOOD survey of your boat's electrical system. Along with other items likely to sink you. Guy in the marina here's sailboat sank in the slip last week. Had a refrigerator that required a TH for cooling water; it leaked. Didn't have the bilge pump on auto because of contaminated bilge problem and he'd been pumping diesel o'board. Fortunately the tide was high and it sank upright with the keel in the mud. He'd been f@#ting around with a $4000 gps/radar and couldn't be persuaded to take my advice and install a high water bilge pump and alarm. Might have been installing a fire extinguisher for his computer; don't know. Bilge pump's moved up to the top of his list right after we crank his pickled engine with the rebuilt starter today. Oh, and replacing the radar/chartplotter box that went under. Regards. Larry M/V Cigano, Prairie 47 Currently lying: Bay St. Louis, MS