Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:17:26 -0500, hpeer wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:28:40 -0000, Justin C
wrote:

What makes a boat a "high latitudes" cruiser? It's a term I've seen a
few times and I'd like to know what makes it different to a "blue water"
cruiser.
Heating on yachts is often a bad joke. Presumably a hi lat boat has a
good furnace. There is one originally intended for trucks that is
supposed to be pretty good.

Casady
Airtronic aka Espar or
Wabasco

Little diesel powered hot air heaters, forced hot air heat in your boat.

Warm AND dry.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, heavn!

Wabasco seems to ring a bell. Written up in passagemaker if I recall
correctly. Whichever, it got rave reviews. Had a way to keep the
engine warm, maybe it just heated and circulated the glycol with
automotive type heaters where needed. I do remember thinking, that's
one problem solved. They were originally for trucks, and for that you
do have to heat the glycol. Anything intended for trucks would be
fairly compact, usually a virtue.

Casady

My Espar is about the size of a loaf of bread, the hoses are quite large
of necessity.

Damned expensive though.