solid fuel heater

leaning towards dickinson/sigmarine solid fuel heater. Reggie

That was my initial thrust as well after finding shipmate models on line under a new name and new builder. Then talked it over with the wooden boat guys and re builders here in town. The only draw back with all solid fuel heaters is that you cannot heat the boat over night with one load. Best burn rate and duration is with charcoal briquettes, these give you the longest burn rate. The trade off is that heating curve varies from low, high, low as the briguettes go through their burn cycle. Bets of luck. Chris H.

If you go Dickinson, the lower in the boat you can mount it, the better it will perform. I was constrained to keeping the starboard bunk "liveable" as my daughter used that bunk. Placing the heater two feet lower directly on the bunk support would have made it work so much better. As it was, I "fixed" this problem adequately by putting a two foot section of flue above decks before the cap giving the necessary 4 feet of flue above the heater. Worked well as we stayed at the dock through the winter. Would not have worked well for being underway while running the heater! Hope this helps. Donald Dutton, 1986 Cal 33-2, "Quantum Evolution" "Twenty Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ........Mark Twain From: r good <my… [at] hotmail.com> To: ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 10:22:13 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] solid fuel heater leaning towards dickinson/sigmarine solid fuel heater. Reggie