Babylon
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Excellent and erudite video presentation. Note that he says his forced-air system is a Planar which is Russian-made and, whilst much cheaper than the Webasto and Eberspacher units (both recently found guilty, as I understand it, of price-fixing!), it is of the same quality, unlike the very cheap and problematic Chinese units.
When my Webasto got old and stopped working (after 20yrs), I went down the Planar route - supplied and fitted in a morning by Owen Cox (scion of our own Vyv Cox): BUILT TO ISO 9001:2015 - 2 YEAR WARRANTY - 100% MADE IN RUSSIA
To the OP: for a Contessa 26 my own advice would be to go down the Planar route - based purely on the fact that your interior is so tiny that (i) it won't take much running to keep the internal volume warm enough even in your latitudes, (ii) it won't take up any room inside the cabin - the whole unit would be fitted in the cockpit locker or lazarette and its supply taps off the main tank - and (iii) no external flue to worry about.
When my Webasto got old and stopped working (after 20yrs), I went down the Planar route - supplied and fitted in a morning by Owen Cox (scion of our own Vyv Cox): BUILT TO ISO 9001:2015 - 2 YEAR WARRANTY - 100% MADE IN RUSSIA
To the OP: for a Contessa 26 my own advice would be to go down the Planar route - based purely on the fact that your interior is so tiny that (i) it won't take much running to keep the internal volume warm enough even in your latitudes, (ii) it won't take up any room inside the cabin - the whole unit would be fitted in the cockpit locker or lazarette and its supply taps off the main tank - and (iii) no external flue to worry about.
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