you also said people would disagree with you... lol ... you were right BUT I do see your point about the carb vs FI AND I totally agree that you should never knowingly operate a boat with a fuel leak but sometimes you don't know... IE the first pin hole in an aluminum fuel tank... sometimes people don't find the leak till they see a sheen on the water from the bilge pump discharge....
I'll add though that since the FI runs at a higher pressure and that it uses an electric pump one MIGHT argue that it introduces a new risk all it's own... Also the O/P doesn't have FI anyhow
all in all I feel that the chances of catastrophe are very low and I often start the engines without running the bilge blowers if they haven't been off long and when I trailer to the ramp I figure that cruising down the road will ventilate the bilge just as well as cruising up the river... BUT I also have a fume detector I installed with an alarm and the ability to automatically activate the blowers at IIRC 10% of the LEL
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