Cabin Heater Type and Arrangement

[billbalme]

A really nice feature of a floor mount would be that your tootsies wouldn't get cold! It's remarkably difficult for us to force the hot air from our heater, mounted on the starboard bulkhead, down to the floor to warm our extremities.

Bill

[jdglasse]

Ryan,

I'm right here with you in NYC on my PSC mariah 31, which I purchased just as winter was coming on. She has a LPG stove which I have yet to fiddle with; right now I use an electric heater to keep the cabin warm while I work on her.

Drop by Chelsea Piers sometime and we'll talk PSC minutiae.'

jeff

[BirdBrain333]

After much cogitation and various mock-ups we decided to go with the Refleks 66 MW stove in copper with a view window installed, mounted on the Port side bulkhead just high enough to get toes under when lying on my side, with lots of room for toes outboard of the stove when on my back.

I hate to give up the cook top but this stove is MUCH narrower without the flared base of the Refleks 66 MK with cook top. One advantage (I hope) of this stove is that I can run a length of flexible flue down to the floor to suck some of the cold air up for combustion.

Refleks will also make up a special length of stovepipe to accommodate the various offsets so I can use the existing hole for the dorade which will probably move forward of the bulkhead.

The gravity tank will go in the hanging locker right up under the deck with a deck fill pipe.

I'm not sure it will actually go in this year but I'll take lots of pictures whenever it does.

Jay

PSC 37 # 171, Kenlanu

[lestiles]

I have one wall mounted on my Pilot 35 that Is not working. Is anyone aware of a repair facility or one of these for sale. Force ten no longer makes the heater and Dickinson seems to not want anything to do with them.