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> This past week in Delran NJ, two people died from CO poisoning on their
> boat
Along the same topic, boat heating.
I have been using my magic chef propane range to heat the cabin.
I set the oven on warm and put a folded pad of fiberglass cloth over the
burners to slow down the venting of warm air from the oven.
The cabin stays fairly warm and the oven only fires for 15 seconds every 5
minutes. This seems fairly economical to me. It equates to about 30 minutes
of burn time over the coarse of a night.
I have a gas sensor and the cabin has permanent vents as well as unsealed
sky lights so CO poisoning is not a risk with the short burn duration.
I have also been thinking about another way to set up temporary cabin heat.
I also have a paloma gas water heater (vented) that I haven't used much.
I have been thinking that this could serve as a cabin heater too.
My thought was to install a small SS container like a small beer keg and
plumb it to the heater with a small pump. The keg could be insulated on the
sides so it wouldn't lose too much heat too quickly. You heat the water in
the keg at the beginning of the evening and then it will radiate the heat
through the night. This way you don't have to have any sort of combustion
that occurs while you are asleep.
Has this been done?
For a permanent installation, you could run heat tubes to the state rooms or
plumb the bottoms of the berths for radiant heat and use a very small
recirculating pump. I have been looking at temporary solutos because I plan
on taking the boat to more tropical waters and don't want an installed
system.
M.Mech
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