SCOD gas installation.

[rosenun]

My son and I have a fairly newly aquired SCOD which currently has no gas installed. As we want to cruise I would like to install gas for cooking and heating in a way that conforms to current guidelines.

Anyone out there with experience of gas bottle storage on this type of boat? I am thinking of mounting a bottle holder on the after-deck vented to the fresh air with a through-the-deck union bringing the the gas into the boat.

Any suggestions?

 

[vande9389]

A good source of information would be www.calormarine.co.uk.

It would be advisable to have the installed tested by a CORGI engineer qualified for marine installations. The website also has a list of those.

regards

Peter

 

[vande9389]

Apologies,

the website is http://www.calormarineshop.co.uk/index.htm

Cheers

Peter

 

[Scarboroughsloop]

Just a thought, but do you really need gas? I would suggets paraffin as an alternative for both heating and cooking but without the inherant risk of gas.

 

[OceanPearl]

Try the SCOD owners' association (www.scod.org). They should be able to tell you where gas bottles are usually fitted on SCODs. There's a large fleet of SCODs in the Solent, so there's a great pool of knowledge available.

 

[Gunfleet]

SCOD... lucky you. I hope you have a lovely time sailing it. I've always thought my boat (Nich 26) was a take on a SCOD! By the way I think if there's no gas now is a bad time to introduce it... why not go the Origo or Taylor's route?