I have no experience with any other type of dedicated cabin heating stove
other than the one that follows. So this is not a comparison or a preference
with or over any other.
In the PNW we have a lot of moisture laden air. I found burning the propane
cook stove added to this, inside the cabin, at the rate of one pound of
water for one pound of fuel consumed. Most of the time I used electric heat
when at the dock (over three winters.)
The new boat came with a Webasto heater installed in the stern quarter with
separate fuel tank and safety overflow and exhaust exiting at the stern. A
large diameter pipe takes dry heated air to three locations; forecabin, main
cabin, and when needed the engine compartment. This solves a lot of
problems including cabin humidity, pre-heating the engine, and provides
area by area temperature control via opening and closing the vents. There is
also more space available in the cabin, and no characteristic odor of the
burning fuel (kerosene or diesel).
So that's one way to solve cabin heating and there may very well be other
units that can do the same job.
Michael
"Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in
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On 16 May 2005 10:26:56 -0700, "Whistledown"
wrote:
Here's a double-top-secret tip that works amazingly well.
Buy one of those ceramic flower pots. Turn it upside down on your
gimballed stove. Turn on burner low. Enjoy warmth as the pot radiates
heat and warms your small cabin.
Note.: The pot will N O T look hot, but touching it would be very
very bad.
Here's another. Because the inside of the pot will capture combustion
byproducts and be comparatively oxygen starved, carbon monoxide will
be generated. Or so I'm told, anyway. Hate to see you wake up dead
one morning. Try a flat slab ot the same material instead.
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