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Any idea of anyone in the Midlands who can provide me with one? Cheers. J

Yup. My neighbours all have tons of the stuff while I'm here boiling a jam kettle to get enough to do some serious moppin (No G) and wash a bachelor's range of dirty dishes. The jam kettle creates a veritable waterfall of condensation too. Can I? Me personally? No. But I could explain the use, contra indications and side effects of most common medications. Any help? ?

Ok. I left the heater on all night (by accident) and it still only gave me a few seconds of decently heated water before running cold. That's when I resolved to put it out there re the heaters on this forum. While we're here...can anyone recommend anyone near the West Midlands who can come and remove and replace some radiators? I have large, old cast iron numbers that need taking out and replacing with bog standard rads but I'm a student nurse and not a heating engineer so I need help. ?

Thanks so far, everyone. The calorifier is vertically mounted, I've upped the water temperature on the dial in the top where the emersion heater enters. So yes, I guess it's only heating the uppermost water. Hmmm. And it's only been in the boat for 5 years - enough time for fittings to fur up? As for the electric water heater, yes our leccy is 16 amp, so that limits the heaters I could use? I can always ensure nowt else is on when washing up and I only shower on board while cruising (such is the luxurious quality of our facilities here... ?) so I only need the water for cleaning.

I'm hooked up to power here on the marina. Could I use something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/redring-rp10-8e-bathroom-water-heater-10-8kw/70888

Hey y'all. I wondered if anyone has any experience they can share to solve my problems. I live aboard and have an emersion heater for my hot water but this only gives me a tiny amount of hot water, even after being on for hours. After a day of boating, I have enough boiling hot water to shower several people and wash dishes...but not while stationary - a few hours of engine tick over doesn't give me that much hot water either. So I'm contemplating fitting an electric water heater, either above my sink or below it, to ensure daily hot water for cleaning, washing up etc. Does anyone know of a suitable heater they know works and gives out constant hot water that's hot enough to clean with? I'm trying to avoid LPG powered heaters, hoping that leccy heaters will be relatively easy to fit. I've been looking at the Screwfix website and they stock some decent powerful heaters. Any suggestions/experience/ideas? Many thanks. Jonathan

I would really like to see people's heating systems, if possible. I'm in Worcestershire but drive. Where are you, J R?

Thanks, Seadog. That's about right, by the sound of it. In the event that I install some system in the engine compartment/around the stern of the boat, this will render the foredeck fuel tank redundant. Would anyone be able to venture as to the possibility of incorporating this tank at the bow into a system at the stern? Would diesel-carrying piping be ok over such a distance? And bear with me, folks. I've never ever known anything about the tech aspects of cars or boats!! Just saying...

Thanks again, guys/girls (...no idea who is which is what or when...oh sod!) I can see I'm looking at a fair bit of dosh here but I see it as worthwhile if I can live comfortably (read...'warm') on board. I had my boat stripped out years ago and redesigned the interior along with having 8 feet of the front internal accommodation cut away to create the foredeck. This now contains the water tank and the diesel tank (for heating). It's just become clear that the diesel stove itself isn't enough and with the smell (and it's hard to get it serviced...the technicians seem to live in Denmark!!....) it's becoming a bit of a git to tolerate.

Hello Bluestring. I'm open to ideas - genuinely so. Eberspacher is among a small host of manufacturers and any solution by any of them that gets a my boat heated will be champion. I know of Webasto and I'll google Hurricane.

Hey Chubby. I believe my stove is the largest available but it still doesn't do the job. The piping issue sucks a big one because the heat loss from the water is genuinely terminal - that rear rad literally doesn't heat on the coldest of days, so that with the small leccy heater, a really freezing week, of which there may be many, can cost a small fortune!! Lots of replies warn against relying on Eber for heating. Is it really that bad? (edited to change autocorrect beer back to Eber)

The Glembring stove is identical to the Refleks stoves - tall, cylindrical, steel and chrome and drip fed from the tank in the foredeck. It's just not heating the boat that well. It's placed pretty centrally in the boat too and has a back boiler with a pump to distribute the water around the piping circuit. I think what's part of the problem is that the pipe carrying the heated water to the rear radiator is tucked under the gunwale and it simply gets cooled by external temperatures before it gets to the rad. As the stove is my only source of heat, and pretty inefficient in a 70 ft boat, I realised I need to change things around. So I figured I'd look at installing a system like Eberspacher and have a solid fuel stove in my lounge. I need to sort this REAL SOON as the rear of the boat stays cold and I want to avoid the common problems of damp and mould. Regarding the noise of Eberspacher (or similar) systems, many on our marina have them installed and the noise is far from nuisance level. You really have to walk close to the boats to even hear it properly. Last winter, I ended up using a small electrical fan heater to warm the stern end of the boat and to make the bathroom a tolerably warm place to wash etc. At a cost of about £8 a day on hook up leccy!!! WHAAAAAT??? We have the usual community spirit on the marina and neighbours who know you'll be home from work soon will happily pop round and light your heating so it's snug to get home to. Something I could activate remotely would be awesome!

Have to say...I'm certainly not struck on any particular brand. I'm just determined to have a warm 70 ft boat!!

This is incredible feedback. Thank you all. With the original installation of the Glembring diesel stove, I had a diesel tank installed under the foredeck. Any idea if this could still be used to feed fuel to the Eberspacher, even if it's installed at the stern in the engine compartment? And is it BSS standard to install in the engine compartment or can it be installed internally? Sorry to be dim!

Hi all. I'm writing this in a hurry so haven't time to trawl through what is probably a huge number of posts re the installation of Eberspacher heating. Do redirect me with links if you know where my thread is already answered. :-) I live aboard a 70 footer at Droitwich and the Glembring stove I have installed, with its back boiler, is reasonably efficient but due to the tiny hole designed into the stove lid, the entire boat and its contents, including me and my Pooches, have a permanent whiff of diesel about them. As a student nurse, I can no longer go to work smelling like a fuel canister! I'm considering installing Eberspacher heating for radiators along the boat and a solid fuel stove in the main cabin. The boats I've stayed on where these are installed smell like homes and not garage forecourts! This is my dream.... What are you experiences of Eberspacher or similar systems, have you installed it and had a nightmare or a genuine success? Do let me know. Cheers. D