The confined space in a boat’s engine room that often includes many more pieces of equipment, apart from the actual engine, can get very hot indeed and often suffer from machinery smell as well. Installing extractor fans can alleviate both these undesirable effects and make all of a boat’s machinery work better. The “equipment bay” on my schooner contains the large main engine, a three-cylinder Diesel generator, ten batteries - which never like getting hot - and six electric pumps

This article shows how I successfully cooled the area and also eradicated the machinery and bilge smell.

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