Solid fuel heater

I bought a gypsy stove on ebay, which was quite good fro my very small heating requirements. I should've worked out how many kW it puts out, but haven't as it's only heating a Folkboat. As an aside, I use charcoal for fuel.
Mine's similar to this one.
 
I hired a 70 Foot canal narrowboat in the 70's - a motor with a trad boatmans cabin - it had a canvas cover over the cargo space in which was a solid fuel Rayburn.

A bit big for most yachts, but winter would be warm............................................
 
Biscayan said:
I was considering to install a solid fuel heater onboard but, apart from the Dickinson Newport (dickinsonmarine.com/product_cat/solid-fuel-heater/), I could find no other model on the English market, .

I know the Hampshire heaters (www.hampshireheaters.co.uk/), but their website is not working.

Do you know any other alternatives in the UK or in the EU (not in the USA, please)?

Thanks.
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Have you seen the Sig Marine range?
Subset of Dickinson on the Kuranda UK website
www.kuranda.co.uk
 
I hope you have heard the story told by Denis Norden or Frank Muir in the BBC Radio programme "My Word". An Eskimo ran out of fuel for his boat stove and broke up his wooden boat to keep warm. Proving that you cannot have your kayak and heat it... (That is a horribly foreshortened version of a story that would have had no end of byways and puns.)

Mike.
 
Thanks for your suggestions.

The majority of heaters that you propose seem to me very heavy for a small yacht. Excepting the small gypsy stove, all of them are more than 34lbs, if I am not wrong.

Obviously, they are cast iron. Much better than stainless steel, but heavier...
 
We heated a 40 foot canal narrowboat in the late 70's with the smallest pot belly stove from the Exchange and Mart - no internet then!

Stood it on a small paving slab with a row of bricks cemented around the edge. I made the chimney from heavy gauge steel tube which passed through a proper cast iron roof fitting with a substantial air gap. An old paint tin, in the best narrowboat tradition, kept the rain out when not in use. A coat of motorcycle cylinder black kept it looking good. We never required a fiddle on the top for the kettle, but that would have been a simple job.

It was very efficient and warm. Cost about 18 quid IIRC.
 
There used to be an small outfit called Force Ten or similar. Stove was basicly a bit of 120mm square tube with the bottom 50mm detachable as an ash can, a small door in the front for loading , 8mm plate top (room for a small pan or kettle) and a 30mm flue coming out of the rear top, with a baffle angled inside.
A friend with a 29ft Samphyre has asked me to run one up, so I could send some photos you could use. His boat is near Devon, so needs a bit of heat... Fuel is either charcoal or small wood.
DW
 
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