Heater while underway

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Butch Landreneau

know it's not the season to worry about heating the interior cabin but was curious how folks do just that while underway? Thanks
 
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Ray Bowles

Butch, What type, size and year is the boat?

Where and when will you be sailing? Ray s/v Speedy
 
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Ed Schenck

Bulkhead mounted, diesel fired.

Many of the H37Cs and H33s that I have seen have the small diesel heaters mounted on the salon bulkhead. It must have been an option back then because there are so many with them. Beauty is they are very efficient, very safe, and have a built in supply of fuel. Don't know if the odor is offensive. And there is the stack on deck to deal with. But NO propane for me.
 
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Clyde Lichtenwalner

Engine Heat

West Marine sells a neat heater that uses engine heat, sharing the hot water hose that supplies engine heat to the hot water heater. Its just like a car heater. Installed one several years ago and find it brings the cabin to a comfortable temperature while goofing around with the anchor at the end of a sailing day (OK, the engine has to be used about a half hour to make it work). Once the engine is off, heat from cooking dinner in the cabin usually keeps things warm until sack time, admittedly early. In the AM the galley stove is called upon to provide heat in the cabin. That is when a bulkhead heater would be most appreciated, but I have not engineered a place for such a heater in my 34, and find it unnecessary given the little really cold weather cruising we do.
 
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