best ways to heat boat

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rowey2006

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hi all just a quick question to you all.

best way to heat boat?
my boat is on a mooring with no electic hook up and i dont want to spend £1000 on diesel powered heater, plus my boat is petrol. i have seen small gas canister heaters in camping shops for about £35-£50 but worried about about petrol fumes and boom!!!!
the stove runs on alcohol if i lit that for cooking, naked flames again boom!!

so the question is how do you heat yours safely.

thanks
marc
 
Butaine camping cooker with a heater attachment does a good job but sore throat in the morning . Leave the oven on was a fave of mine and no sore throat . I know have the butaine heater and no need to leave it on as it heats my 24 ft 7 ft beam cruiser in no time .
Im also Petrol but i dont spill it ! So no BOOM .
 
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Butaine camping cooker with a heater attachment does a good job but sore throat in the morning . Leave the oven on was a fave of mine and no sore throat

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I suspect the sore throat was because you didn't have sufficient ventilation. In fact I wouldn't leave any gas appliance running overnight in a boat with insufficient ventilation as I might not wake up in the morning due to CO poisoning.
 
Hi Marc,

I also have a petrol boat so I bought a small 3kw Kippor generator and use 2 x 500 watt oil filled radiators. Total cost of set up £400 and as the generator runs on petrol (lasts 4/5 hours) I use jerry cans to top it up. It does mean you go to bed toasty warm and wake up chilly, but I prefer that to setting the alarm for 4am. 15 mins after refill and the boat is cosy again and SWMBO does not move until then! I keep the gene on swim platform so no noise or smoke (and fasten it on!)

Just an idea that works for us,

Paul
 
Your right , i should have said i warm the boat up with the cooker and new heater before i go to sleep . I left the old heater on all night but the gas runs out after a few hours .
The point i was trying to make was you can heat a petrol boat without worry .
 
Can't you still buy those Catalytic heaters? I'm sure I still have one somewhere. They ran for a season on a small gas bottle, were flame proof and very safe.
 
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I keep the gene on swim platform so no noise or smoke (and fasten it on!)


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Ah!!! so you're the culprit that runs his gene all night long till the fuel runs out hey!!

No noise or smoke... you mean no noise inside for you but a racket and fumes for everyone else, then you get up at 4am and start it up again!

Tut tut tut..
 
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That's me...selfish to the end

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Well of course you are! That was never in doubt. You own a MOBO. Its common knowledge that ALL MOBO owners are, arrogant, selfish, brash, inconsiderate, loud & ignorant and shouldn't be on the water....... or am I confusing that with South Africans?
 
........and to cap it all off I love to invite a 'green person' on to the boat, pull out a furry animal which I have maliciously cought and bludgeoned to death, skin it whilst still warm and BBQ it! Then for god measure I run both petrol engines just to charge the batteries (only when on shore power) and offer around Cuban Cigars rolled by innocents earning $1 a day. Of course I insist all my clothes come from the sweatshops of china and that I only drink beer in a glass bottle which I then dump in the sea. I have also removed my holding tank so that the toilet disharges direct (saving me pump out fees) and always boil the kettle full to both waste electricity and water as I always empty it every time I use it.

The last thing is that I love to clean the boat with as much detergent as possible and a hosepipe to ensure people get really irked.

So you may see may as selfish, but I see me as independent and strong minded! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Paul
 
ISM cruising club

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independent and strong minded

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Excellent idea for a cruising club... you can be commodore.

We can go round raping and pillaging the earth to our hearts content
 
Re: ISM cruising club

I am up for that. Lets call our club 'the Vikings' as I believe they copywrited the 'raping and pillaging of the earth and it's inhabitants'!

Glad to see we are all not PC /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Paul
 
Agree with Byron, catalytic heaters are good, no fumes and we don't get condensation either.
Lots available either stand alone like this
superser-catalytic.jpg
or plumbed in.
 
Duh ! , as this is the Motor Boat Forum , I'd be a little surprised if this was about sail boats . And I don't think a comment about burning sail boats would go down too well in Scuttlebut , where they talk about sailing !
 
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Can't you still buy those Catalytic heaters?


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Yes you can. I have them mounted on the bulkheads and they are surprisingly good. They came with the boat and to start with I was a little afraid to use them. But as you don't get a flame and they don't get hot enough to set fire to anything they are useful. Just make sure you have a bit of ventilation to prevent condensation.
 
If you want to burn my boat then please hurry as I want a bigger one and the insurance will allow me to get one! Given it is twin petrols and has 1/2 a tank in it I would recommend removing the external vent pipe and repositioning it in the engine bay. Then turn on the engine bay heaters to warm up the fuel and help start off vapour then open the hatch, climb in and light a match. This way we could remove you from the gene pool and I can get a new boat /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

We would all be winners......

Paul
 
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