Ditch the Hot Water Tank?

[JSL3]

Originally Posted by TIKI TIME

C&C owners website has a manual for the heater.
here is the link: Raritan Water Heater

Hope it helps

this is the same manual i have at home, no need to scan it now

[LittleWingCA]

My Orion 27 has a hot water heater that runs off of AC since my Yanmar is Raw Water Cooled. I haven't used it yet, but my PO used to carry a small Honda gas generator and a jerry jug of gas when he went out and just plugged it into the Marine AC connector on the boat with an adaptor cable. He secured the small Honda generator on deck and swore by it when he was island hopping off of California. Not sure I would do this for an open ocean crossing, but for coastal work, you might want to go that route. For daysailing he just didn't bring along the generator.

[arf145]

ahalfon, here are a couple of pictures, one of the connections on the side of the heater that faces the engine, and the other of the coolant lines that go from the Yanmar to the heater. Sorry about the quality, there is very little room in that heater compartment!

[johnshasteen]

Originally Posted by LittleWingCA

My Orion 27 has a hot water heater that runs off of AC since my Yanmar is Raw Water Cooled.

It doesn't matter that your Yanmar is raw water cooled - so is mine and probably a majority of the small Yanmars. You can still plumb your heater's heat sync to the engine water. Paloma's had an AC/engine-heated hot water heater (Yanmar 2QM15) since new, I just recently replaced the heater - the first one lasted over 25 years.