Brisk this morning Bill! Love the woodstove idea. We have two diesel heaters which are amazing, too, but Alternative is right, nothing quite like wood. Safe passages to you. Spending the winter up here in Cambridge MD will test my thin blood!! Missing being on the water.
Thanks, Janice! Tonight, we had a skinny channel to navigate. We had built a fire in the wood stove earlier in the day, and it was still going and going! We planned to leave at 7 pm but earlier had an opportunity and decided to leave the dock. It was interesting heading out with smoke coming out of the stack. Everything worked out, and we are now safely anchored in a spot to make a good departure in the morning.
There is nothing like a woodstove on a boat. It dries the boat as nothing else can, and the heat is somehow different to electric or LPG or diesel heating. I have slots in the floor so it draws air from the bilges and keeps them dry too.
Mine is a little larger and so takes 18" long logs. And has an oven to cook pizzas! But it chucks out so much heat that unless it is zero outside I have to leave the cabin door open. So for the rest of the winter, like now when it is still 14*C daytime and 8*C overnight, I've just installed a two part aircon and heat pump that heats or cools, for when I'm on shore power or generator. Works great.
I'll check that one out. Thanks! I have a small 24v by Kobalt, but I left it in storage in Florida because I didn't think I'd be up north this late in the season!
Ecological wood logs work well. Just keep moisture away. https://www.greenmountainfirewood.com/
Checking those out now.
Brisk this morning Bill! Love the woodstove idea. We have two diesel heaters which are amazing, too, but Alternative is right, nothing quite like wood. Safe passages to you. Spending the winter up here in Cambridge MD will test my thin blood!! Missing being on the water.
J
Thanks, Janice! Tonight, we had a skinny channel to navigate. We had built a fire in the wood stove earlier in the day, and it was still going and going! We planned to leave at 7 pm but earlier had an opportunity and decided to leave the dock. It was interesting heading out with smoke coming out of the stack. Everything worked out, and we are now safely anchored in a spot to make a good departure in the morning.
There is nothing like a woodstove on a boat. It dries the boat as nothing else can, and the heat is somehow different to electric or LPG or diesel heating. I have slots in the floor so it draws air from the bilges and keeps them dry too.
Mine is a little larger and so takes 18" long logs. And has an oven to cook pizzas! But it chucks out so much heat that unless it is zero outside I have to leave the cabin door open. So for the rest of the winter, like now when it is still 14*C daytime and 8*C overnight, I've just installed a two part aircon and heat pump that heats or cools, for when I'm on shore power or generator. Works great.
Enjoy your cosy winter!
Every live aboard should install one!
Get a mini battery operated chain saw. Steel
(Sp) has good one.
I'll check that one out. Thanks! I have a small 24v by Kobalt, but I left it in storage in Florida because I didn't think I'd be up north this late in the season!