A very practical problem is windshield fogging. This happened on my boat one
cool evening this Fall, and after I realized it wasn't getting foggy
outside, I had my daughter up on the foredeck wiping the windows constantly
while I sponged them off inside - just so we could see. The amount of sudden
condensation was formidable. (Trojan 26.)

Is general pilothouse heating adequate for this? I suspect not. Anyone heat
their windshields, the way the "defrost" setting works in an automobile?

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Charles T. Low
www.boatdocking.com

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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The more I get into designing the new interior of this '68 Chris Craft
Corsair I want to turn into a winter boat, the more I get to wondering
about different things. One of which was brought home this morning as
I took the dogs out for exercise.

Having arthritis, cold isn't my friend. Adding to that, I don't enjoy
the cold all that much - never have. I tolerate it, but I don't like
it. Therefore, it is paramount in a winter boat to have....

HEAT.

My thought was to pull heat off the engine much like the radiator
system in a car. The way the design is developing, there will be an
interior cabin of a sort or at least a place where one could get out
of the wind, rain, etc. Think of a Parker/Steiger type pilot house
without the adjoining cuddy space. This is where I would put the
heating unit.

I'm just not sure this is a valid way of heating this small space.

Any thoughts?

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653