On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:56:34 -0500, Eisboch wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
The more I get into designing the new interior of this '68 Chris Craft
Corsair I want to turn into a winter boat, the more I get to wondering
about different things. One of which was brought home this morning as
I took the dogs out for exercise.

Having arthritis, cold isn't my friend. Adding to that, I don't enjoy
the cold all that much - never have. I tolerate it, but I don't like
it. Therefore, it is paramount in a winter boat to have....

HEAT.

My thought was to pull heat off the engine much like the radiator
system in a car. The way the design is developing, there will be an
interior cabin of a sort or at least a place where one could get out
of the wind, rain, etc. Think of a Parker/Steiger type pilot house
without the adjoining cuddy space. This is where I would put the
heating unit.

I'm just not sure this is a valid way of heating this small space.

Any thoughts?

I probably missed a bunch about your plans. Is the heating requirement
while underway or at the dock? It would seem that underway you are
limited to whatever you can generate by capturing engine heat or that
available for conversion to electric by the engine and/or generator, if
equipped. A set of quality and heavy thermal underwear will help. :-)

I haven't really talked much about it because it's been in the works
for almost a year. I've just finished up the design now - hobby, get
all the ducks in a row, before I start kind of thing.

It's more of a "let's get the temperature up to the point where I can
warm up" kind of heat while on the water. I don't intend on having a
sauna in the pilot house. I mentioned to Harry that the space is about
the size of a town car and the required temperature would be about the
same as it would be in winter traveling in a car.

Here's another thought. How much heat can I obtain having a fair
amount of eisenglass using solar heating?

If the heating requirement is at the dock, more options exist.

Nope - this is strictly a trailer operation for cod in Boston Harbor
or winter flounder off the Westerly Reef. Weather gets snarky, I'm
outa there. :)

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717