Taylors in the arctic

[aslan]

Has anyone experience of cruising arctic waters beween July and August?
Is a Taylors paraffin heater (2.1kw) the most fuel economic?
Warm enough for a 28' loa x 9' beam, thoughts please?

 

[Mirelle]

1. Yes.

2. It will give more than adequate warmth, indeed you will just about roast in front of it, and I have always said that in terms of btu per lb parafin takes a lot of beating. However, remember that it should not be run unattended, eg when you are asleep.

I think you will find that it is too hot for constant use, but very good for occasional warming and drying out of the boat - which is really what you want. Actually, it is not necessary to have a stove going all the time - it does not get THAT cold in the Arctic (at least, not the navigable bits!) in July and August. A good investment in thermal underwear is indicated, though.

3. Mount it LOW DOWN in the boat; otherwise you will get a pool of stagnant freezing air below the level of the stove.

 

[Guest]

I've sailed there regularly with Webasto, but with a Taylors Cooker 030L paraffin. Very, very economical, as it was left on to supplement the diesel Heater. In terms of temperature 5-8C 2 to 3 pints per 6 hours which, in my opinion was very economical. As for a pure heater, Webasto is the ultimate, when diesel is easy to obtain.

Trust this will help you.

 

[Guest]

I live onboard a Fisher 25 and have a Taylors parrafin heater. In winter with snow on the decks, it is never below 50f and often nearer 70f. The noise does destroy the peace of deserted anchorages though, and I have tried drip feed deisels stoves, but none are at good as the Taylors for performance in windy conditions of 25 degrees of heel. I must confess that I do sleep with my stove on. Nothing around it is flamable, the smoke detector tells me if the flame has gone yellow for any reason, and on the two occasions that the aluminium sealing washer has given up, I woke up, Taylors sixth sense. I use 12v comuter fans to distribute the warm air to the heads, forecabin and quater berth areas, and us smaller ones to vent the lockers. It's good to move that air around. I've always been tempted to try it on deisel, has anyone tried, and to what effect?

 

[Guest]

I agree with everything the previous said although we got to 72north last summer but had the heater on every day. it was on 24 hours a day all winter until the end of June. We have the diesel version - one less fuel to carry -
1 you must have a MINIMUM of 3 metres of chimney - we now have 4.5m
2 fit the H type - i made ours out of aluminimum tube and angle the uprights 45 degrees. The suppllied one is just useless in any breeze. Thie is because of the location and not aving the chimney stikcing 3m above the deck to clear the boom!!!
3 we used 2.5l diesel a day on average - If it is getting too hot we open the hatch and keep the boat dry - for the little fuel it used it was mcuh more comfortable below. do not have it too low or the chimney carbons up very quickly.
4. we added some more rockwool(?) to one side to protect the teak beside it and are very happy with it. If it burns too low the soot makes a dreadful mess of the deck.

 

[cinnabar]

Can you give us more details of the H type chimney that you made? We are about to try and do the same for our Taylors diesel stove as we have found that , as you say , the supplied chimney doesnt work with any breeze.

what diameter? where is the 45 degree angle?