Adding Heat to a Cabin Cruiser's Cabin
 

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.

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????????

Thanks in advance?

Webasto has a self-install kit for diesel furnaces.

I put one on my boat last fall, and it didn't prove to be difficult at
all.

You would want one of the smaller units, and you would have to install
a tank for the diesel. The diesel option is likely to be more effective
and safer than propane or alcohol.

Another good option might be a Wallas stove. They are commonly found on
boats of your size category.
Do a search for Wallas on the internet, and you'll surely get a bunch
of hits. (You'll still need a diesel tank).

Send me a good email address if you'd like the text of the
heater-installation series.

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.


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

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

Hello . Espar, or Wabasto heaters makes small diesel air heaters than can
heat an cabin very easily and cheap truck shops sell them.

Rey

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.

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????????

Thanks in advance?

The Mirage 33 sailboat I crewed on had a propane furnace to heat the
water and cabin space.

I also would like the heater-installation series. Pleae send to


Thanks,
Norm

If I were you I would go with one of the bus style heaters. It works
just like the heater in your car, warm water is pumped up to the heater
core which has a blower and ducts. They work just fine, and can be had
for, I beleave, a few hundred dollars.

John

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.

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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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/