Solid Fuel Heater Flue Length

[Jonny A]

Thanks for all the advice, I now have several options to investigate further!

 

[JumbleDuck]

Splendid looking thing; a more elegant descendant of the Pansy, indeed.

It's very nice indeed. Protrudes quite a lot from the bulkhead, but worth it.

Well I don't want to criticise anybody else's experience, but I lived aboard a 24' yacht for a couple of years using a Pascall Atkey charcoal heater, and it was a nuisance.. you're meant to use lump charcoal, made by some ancient medieval process deep in a forest, which is expensive.

Luckily lumpwood charcoal is now quite easy to find - most supermarkets sell it in the summer and Amazon can get it to you for the next day. I'm not sure that I would stick with charcoal if I was living aboard, and I use a small convector for winters afloat (marina) or ashore, but for occasional use to take off the evening chill and to dry out clothes and towels it's absolutely fine.

And the stove got very hot, but being circular, smooth and shiny it didn't warm up the air very well. But it was very good at burning fingers.

I haven't seen a Pansy, but the Hampshire has an inner firebox - which with the air vent more than 1/4 open glows red hot inside the outer casing, which gets burn-your-fingers hot but not scarily so. Air enters the annular gap through a ring of holes round the bottom and emerges, very hot, through another ring of holes round the top.