Does this boat need help...

[StephenHeisler]

I am looking out from our deck and this boat was throwing a TON of black smoke into the air... I am new here, so tell me what you all think.

 

[Ed B]

We park our boat next to about six of those things and we are always covered with the soot that those stacks put out. So it's all good.

 

[rockyptjoe]

probably old diesels.....

 

[InkaRoads]

as long as the smoke is coming out from the top of the stack is all good with those old diesel pushers!!

 

[azfish]

Nothing looks odd about it.

If it looks like this, yes something wrong.

 

[jerry]

Nothing looks odd about it.

If it looks like this, yes something wrong.

Explosion destroys houseboat in Amsterdam | DutchAmsterdam.nl

when I was in Amsterdam I saw the tiny pieces left in a canal from a propane tank explosion on a houseboat.The blast blew a guy out of the second story window onto a pedestrian in a alley below...check your hoses!

 

[Stuart]

Or... looking like this. This is from the guys we rescued a couple years back. And, you could tell there was a problem because the smoke filled the sky. People onshore 12 miles away saw it.

 

[az-dan]

A lot of times they blend used oil with diesel and from that you will get more smoke.