Hi all - I’m a newbie here and would be grateful for all / any advice you have.
I am currently ordering a 12,6 x 60 foot wide beam sailaway and as I’m fitting out the boat from scratch I have far too many options to choose from. My main thoughts currently are revolving around the cooking, heating and hot water systems as I would like the boat to be as ‘off grid’ as possible, however, I will most likely moor the boat from December - February.
There are a couple of things I am regarding as a necessity:
1. Underfloor heating (be it water or electric). The reason is less for ‘heating’ and more for keeping the boat at a steady temperature and may help condensation issues
2. No LPG.
I have found a company called ‘Heritage Range’ through another feed. These Diesel ‘range’ cookers cook, heat water and underfloor heating. (I understand this will also be ‘warm’ in the summer.
The other option would be a large solar panel system to power an immersion in the calorifier electric underfloor ‘heating’ and have a separate cooker of some kind and an additional Diesel heater or multi fuel burner.
Are there better options?