Cabin Heater (stove)

[Malcolm Brown]

I want to make a small cabin heater for my 1922, 23', Hillyard cutter, now nearing end of re-build. Does anyone know of any plans. Thanks.

[peter s]

What materials?welded mild steel or cast iron?Fuel?Wood ,kero,diesel or coal?I'm kind of interested in building a small heating stove too.....I've made a couple of mock ups out of ply but nothing definite yet.I plan to have it cast in iron or maybe even gunmetal. I read a couple of books on wood stoves from the library,but have no published plans.There is a reasonable looking stove,The Faversham, advertised in Classic Boat magazine.Keep us posted.

[TomRobb]

David Goodchild, who has a number of posts here, has made a rather nice little stove for his boat. Searching on his name may dredge up something. With a bit of luck he'll respond to your post.

[TomRobb]

Try www.anyboat.com/toadhall.htm (http://www.anyboat.com/toadhall.htm)
I expect David would answer your email too.

[This message has been edited by TomRobb (edited 01-30-2001).]

[Ian McColgin]

Given the Luke and other nice solid fuel heaters, you have to really have a plan to want to make one, since it's probably easier and cheaper to buy. David's site is quite lucid if you really have to build it yourself.

If you can find some old soapstone, like from a wrecked out old laundry room, make something on the same general dimensions and the Luke bulkhead stove.

If you can come up with a bit of black iron pipe of about 1' diameter, you could make a really neat pot stove. Unfortunatly, the buyable stove parts I've seen - doors and such - are not readily available in such small sizes. However, there may be a kind of antiquey junk yard with lots of parts to scavange.

If you're buring wood, the draft is best if it comes in near the top of the fire. So, if you go for the simple construction of a top loader, either make a controlable vent with downdraft pipe from the top, as you see in some commercial heaters, or install a controlable vent about halfway or two thirds of the way down the barrel.

Be really really sure to provide air, steel and insulation to protect any nearby surfaces.

G'luck

G'luck

[Dave Hadfield]

As said, more details are required, Malcom.

I built a portable wood stove for my ketch last fall to extend the season. It sits on a small platform that slots into the centerboard inspection port. The stovepipe goes up through a thimble that sets into one half of the skylight (greenhouse). It works great, except that it produces a very large amount of heat if you overstoke it, and you end up on deck.

I've made many very simple portable stoves for camp use in northern Canada. I use about 24 gauge black iron sheet metal, and a very simple home-made bending break in the shop. Then I pop-rivet it together using steel, not aluminum, rivets. The pipe is 3 inch galvanized eaves trough (gutter) downspouting.

Mine is portable, and stows under the cockpit easily.

Let me know if you wish more details.

Dave

[Smacksman]

No self-respecting smack sails without a solid fuel stove; it is used all through the year in the uk.
Cast iron like the Faversham [above post] or you can make a good one out of an old calor gas bottle which has a stand and a fiddle built in already.
Rolls Royce jobs are the Baxi boiler type out of a house with glass doors and a back boiler for heating up the calorifier.
Alberta's storage tank is a 30 gall domestic copper cylinder complete with mains electric heating element when there is power about and an indirect coil connected to the stove.
If you make your own from, say, 8" pipe then use steam pipe and min. 3/8" plate as thinner stuff buckles with the heat. The ash tray can make a good air damper.

[Chuck St John]

Have you looked at the lovely stoves at Marinestove.com? Two small fine stoves in production and more to come.