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Liveaboard on a 60ft widebeam for a year and looking for some advice re heating. Managed to scrape through last winter and hoping to get my heating sorted out for the upcoming! Our boat (2007) came with a Webasto thermtop-c water diesel heater, with 4 radiators inside the boat. in spring this year the heater stopped working (Would start up and then stop within about 15 seconds). Anyone experienced with these, is it worth getting the Webasto serviced and going again for heating and water in the winter, or should we look to replace it with a new diesel heater, e.g. the Planar models other threads have discussed? Any advice would be much appreciated. We don't have a stove currently, would that be a better use of money for a heating system? Thanks
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I have been adding a few blog posts on what we did to protect our boat while we are away in the winter, we are based in a marina with power, but decided to fit a frost protection thermostat to control our diesel heating system. 1. Frost Protection options with our Canal Boat 2. Winterizing final things 3. Eberspächer D4W Diesel Powered Frost Protection – Update 4. New Heating Thermostat and Isolation Switches I hope this is of help, we spent a long time looking for the most efficient method with what we had available at the time, always interested to hear what others would recommend. Thanks David www.floydtilla.co.uk
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hi I like a boat but capped off fin radiators suggest they weren’t working well so in addition to the solid fuel stove . I’m thinking of adding back boiler to stove if possible connected to radiators and a diesel heating system too. Would anyone have rough idea of possible cost as a retrofit. Thanks
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Hello, Looking at heating whilst it's summer, and looking at the range of drip fed diesel heaters available, mainly the Lockgate 2000, Kabola Old Dutch and now the Dickinson Antarctic. All look to have a good reputation but does anyone have any direct experience of the Dickinson and what's your views. Please don't suggest solid fuel, it's not for me. As well as the above, I'm also looking at diesel cooking stoves and at the Dickinson range, if anyone has one of these they would be great to hear your thoughts on them as well. Cheers, Richard.
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Hello all, I got a lovely 52ft Tug, it needs however another way to keep it warm in winter, I only have a wood stove. After a lot of research (I got a lot of tips and useful info in this forum, thanks to all) I've chosen to get a diesel fired central heating system (preferably Webasto) fully fitted, together with radiators and a 24hs timer. The problem is I can't find someone to do the job in my area, that's Kingston upon Thames and up to 50 miles around, I got a quote from the broker where I bought the boat for 3K (this matches my estimates and budget) but that's in Nottingham, the only quote I got in the area was for 5K -which I think it is way too much, I can't understand the discrepancy. Can anybody recommend either a professional that can do this or a boatyard that does this kind of job? Thanks to all for reading. Paula