I should add, that if you want to think about bizarre inefficiency,
Fintry was set up by the Royal Navy for all electric heat. So were
many of the other government and commercial boats we looked at, see
http://www.mvfintry.com/boatsnotbought.htm

At sea, she would run a 30kw 220VDC genset, which provided electric
heat, hot water, and stove ("cooker" over there), as well as the usual
ship loads. All of the engine heat went overboard.

In harbor, the genset was 15kw for the same purposes.

At least on the new Fintry we'll recapture much of the waste heat from
the prime movers for domestic hot water and heat as required. The
main heat source will be a diesel fired boiler.

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com


"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:23:23 +0000, Jim Woodward wrote:

Either eat your food raw or pick from a sorry crowd:

1) Electric -- have to run a genset or a big inverter with heavy
batteries. Can run on shore power in large marinas, but not small
ones. Fintry will have an electric oven, as I really don't like LPG
ovens.


This one I find just bizarre. You burn fuel to generate heat to generate
mechanical energy to generate electrical energy to generate...heat!

(BTW: I like my Force10 propane oven. Unlike most, it's thermostatically
controlled. Just be sure to disable the gimbal before you remove the
lasagna...)

Lloyd