Stuff that works—Heating and Ventilation
Espar D8 Forced Air Diesel
Heater 8KW
www.espar.com and
www.oceanoptions.com
After years
of fighting with an unreliable diesel heater, we are
very pleased with the Espar heater we installed in 2000. It is one of the bigger ones
they make and keeps us toasty in all weathers. One thing
we would suggest, though, is not to use the exhaust exit
in the hull that they normally specify. In heavy weather
this will be very vulnerable to flooding. We had Mike
Bowden at Ocean Options, where we bought the heater,
fabricate us a 4' high chimney with a "Charlie Nobel"
type top that is braced to the stern rail. With this
setup we can use the heater even in very heavy weather
at sea—when a wick type heater would almost certainly
blow back—which is, after all, when you want to be toasty
below. The drawbacks of this type of heater are the
substantial electrical use and complexity, but these are balanced by the
convenience of just flicking a switch when we want heat,
even at sea.
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Saturday December 01, 2007
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