Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: woodstove or not
In a message dated 3/11/2011 2:21:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
kb… [at] gmail.com writes:
He is basically having to tile a section of the his boat for heat
protection, which is added weight in addition to the stove itself. They don't come
light being cast iron and that added weight may adversely affect the sailing
of your Cal 27.
One other thing to think about is the fuel. Wood stoves take a while to get
up to speed and can consume wood very quickly if you aren't careful about
the settings
I had a free standing woodstove in a small 3BR house I rented fresh outta
school. Behind it was a brick wall that was maybe a foot taller and a foot
wider than the stove itself. Well one night I stoked her up but forgot to
shut the air intake down. My bedroom was the farthest room away from the
stove and later that night I woke up to the sound of my old lab panting beside
me. I woke up groggy and thought to myself "man it's bright out in the
living room" (the stove lined up with the hallway and was at the other end of the
house). The living room also had a cathedral ceiling with a ceiling fan on
a 6' rod.
Well long story short, I snapped out of it and ran out of my room to see
the stove glowing red, the thermometer on the thermostat pegged out at over
90deg, a candle on the back of the brick wall melted down the wall and my
ceiling fan was swinging in 2' circles at the end of the rod from the force of
the air rising and it trying to push it down. I had to use an oven mitt to
close the air intake down LOL. Other than the mess on the brick, I escaped
w/o damage.
Sailing content . . . I'd never put a wood/pellet stove on a boat.
Fiberglass burns better than wood/pellets.
Just my 2 cents.
Paul