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Re: Caution
Some points if you choose a wood/charcoal heater the cabin will soon have covering of wood dust everywhere which when you wipe your hand accross a surface will be black. The smoke when you add wood is as harmful as smoking cigaretts!
If you choose a stove it MUST be top loading otherwise red hot embers WILL fall out at some time!Collecting wood may seem romantic from the walmth of your office in real life its a pain!
To row ashore collect then cut to size and store onboard umm. If you use a charcole heater that at least can be fed by a plastic bag of charcole each time just drop it in that way you wont becomes so sooty and black handed!
The most dangerouse of allis when the fires going has wood or charcoal and the wind pipes up outside this can either cause downdraft and smoke you into the cockpit in the freezing wet night air! or cause the fire burn like mad!!You will then see the metal change from red to white hot!! Untill the wood behind is scorching
I put water on mine last year when it did that and it blew hot coals over the cabin and left a dreadful mess
Diesel is the best safest and most controlable!!
Last year i experimented with all sorts of heaters and had the firebrigade along to "talk to me" The best heater most compact tot controlable and economic was a colemans single burner petrol cooker heating into a tube with a i inch chimney It was the least expensive easiest to make but condemed by this forum and in the end by the French firebrigade!!!!They worried about petrol vapor gathering in the bilge! Pity
The most expensive and disasterouse was a copper heater 10inch dia with a copper burner pot inside and 1 inch copper chimney that looked wonderful! Heated very quickly it cost me £40 to be made by a local plumbing shop i used a wick parafin heater when i had it in place lit the heater it was wonderful for about half an hour then the silver solder melted and it began to fall apart!!
Next i found a stainless pressure vessel at the scrap yard 6 inch dia heavy stainless to this i added a blakes drip feed the vessel had a screw thread which was ideal for the diesel to enter i added a push on top and chiminy cost £12! Another visit from the firebregade to see what their winter resident pyromaniac was up to and sell me a calander!!!
They declared my heater as safe but said that heavy stainless steel was bad for a heater as it dosent heat well???Dosent melt either!!!
Hope this helps
Some points if you choose a wood/charcoal heater the cabin will soon have covering of wood dust everywhere which when you wipe your hand accross a surface will be black. The smoke when you add wood is as harmful as smoking cigaretts!
If you choose a stove it MUST be top loading otherwise red hot embers WILL fall out at some time!Collecting wood may seem romantic from the walmth of your office in real life its a pain!
To row ashore collect then cut to size and store onboard umm. If you use a charcole heater that at least can be fed by a plastic bag of charcole each time just drop it in that way you wont becomes so sooty and black handed!
The most dangerouse of allis when the fires going has wood or charcoal and the wind pipes up outside this can either cause downdraft and smoke you into the cockpit in the freezing wet night air! or cause the fire burn like mad!!You will then see the metal change from red to white hot!! Untill the wood behind is scorching
I put water on mine last year when it did that and it blew hot coals over the cabin and left a dreadful mess
Diesel is the best safest and most controlable!!
Last year i experimented with all sorts of heaters and had the firebrigade along to "talk to me" The best heater most compact tot controlable and economic was a colemans single burner petrol cooker heating into a tube with a i inch chimney It was the least expensive easiest to make but condemed by this forum and in the end by the French firebrigade!!!!They worried about petrol vapor gathering in the bilge! Pity
The most expensive and disasterouse was a copper heater 10inch dia with a copper burner pot inside and 1 inch copper chimney that looked wonderful! Heated very quickly it cost me £40 to be made by a local plumbing shop i used a wick parafin heater when i had it in place lit the heater it was wonderful for about half an hour then the silver solder melted and it began to fall apart!!
Next i found a stainless pressure vessel at the scrap yard 6 inch dia heavy stainless to this i added a blakes drip feed the vessel had a screw thread which was ideal for the diesel to enter i added a push on top and chiminy cost £12! Another visit from the firebregade to see what their winter resident pyromaniac was up to and sell me a calander!!!
They declared my heater as safe but said that heavy stainless steel was bad for a heater as it dosent heat well???Dosent melt either!!!
Hope this helps
