[alberg30] Cabin heater

[John Birch]

Bob;
Sunstone came with a Cole Stove and some anthracite which the previous owner
swore by and I swear at.  First you have to start the anthracite with charcoal
briquettes, if your lucky the anthracite will get going but usually you need a
blow torch.  It is hard to control the heat coming out and I have seen chimneys
start to glow red - not a good thing, though a dry heat to be sure.

In the morning you are greeted on deck with soot and mess from the briquettes,
the solution - go to a liquid stove and do as you have done, put the contraption
the garage for the mice.

On a serious note, remember to leave a port or hatch open enough to draw in fresh
air as people have asphyxiated in closed cabins with stoves that lack their own
outside air source (Sigmar has one but the unit is expensive).

Caio,

John

Robert Kirk wrote:

> From: Robert Kirk <kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>
> >From: "Charles Haggart" <chaggart at sympatico.ca>
> >
> >There was a wood stove/heater in the boat years ago and it was mounted to
> >starboard on the hanging locker bulkhead. The flue vent hole has been sealed
> >over with a Plexiglas blank.
>
> When I bought  Isobar, it came with  what sounds like that same pot-bellied
> stove/heater together with the necessary flues and insulation amongst its
> supplies.  The cabin top has a blank which could easily replaced by Charlie
> Noble. The rig sits in my garage never used.  I never installed it since
> I'm a fair weather sailor (getting time to haul now), and frostbite and I
> don't get along.   But I'm wondering if anyone has used one successfully.
> It seems like it and a bag of coal might be just the thing to extend the
> season a little. (Can one still buy a bag of coal?)
>
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
>
> 
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