I hope they are kidding about using your stove in any fashion. I think the
Espar type diesel heaters are the way to go if you have a diesel engine. If
not, the other space heaters or OK.

However, do put a carbon monoxide alarm in the cabin when you sleep with
anything that produces combustion. Very cheap insurance for your life.


"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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Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
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Norm, your address appears to be bogus.

You're right. I should have said, "If you just have to try using the
stove, use a flat slab ot the same material instead of a pot."


On Tue, 17 May 2005 00:50:14 GMT, "Phil Lewis"
wrote:

I hope they are kidding about using your stove in any fashion. I think the
Espar type diesel heaters are the way to go if you have a diesel engine. If
not, the other space heaters or OK.

However, do put a carbon monoxide alarm in the cabin when you sleep with
anything that produces combustion. Very cheap insurance for your life.


"Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in
message ...
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.

__________________________________________________ __________
Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/


__________________________________________________ __________
Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/

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
message ...
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.

__________________________________________________ __________
Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at world wide wiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/

"DSK" wrote in message
. ..
Professor Freshwaters wrote:
OK, experts here's one for ya...........

I want to go boating in or near the Great Lakes and I'd like to stretch
the season. Am considering about a 22ft cabin cruiser but I want some
heat in the cabin while underway.

A wise decision. The only thing more miserable than being cold on a boat
is being wet & cold on a boat.

You mean that's not nooorrrmmmaaalll?

What kind of heater or furnace is available and/or practical? The
power is an outboard so I know that electrical heating is not an
option, do some of the sail boats use alcohol or kerosene or diesel
fuel to heat their cabins?

Propane or LNG, or what????????

Even if it's an outboard powered boat, the chances are that it may have a
propane stove. This gives you one possible fuel source.

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There are alcohol & diesel fueled heaters, too. If going totally from
scratch, I'd consider diesel as being the safest & least smelly (assuming
it doesn't leak or spill).

The simplest type of heater is to get one of those little camp heaters.
They're relatively safe (assuming intelligent operation) but since the
exhaust isn't vented, they pump a lot of moisture into the cabin
atmosphere. Not good... IMHO many times when you shut the thing off, the
cabin ends up clammy & colder than ever. It's more trouble to install, but
a vented heater is far better.

DSK

On 15 May 2005 20:11:46 -0700, "Professor Freshwaters"
wrote:


OK, experts here's one for ya...........

I want to go boating in or near the Great Lakes and I'd like to stretch
the season. Am considering about a 22ft cabin cruiser but I want some
heat in the cabin while underway.

I bought one of those small 20" copper "fire pit", and just build a
small wood fire in it when it gets chilly on my 36' Zimmerman.

Me and the wife
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