Installing a Budget Diesel Heater on my Sailboat

[@jepomer]

Bethany - You have become quite proficient and comfortable with your boat projects. The editing is more succinct with less rambling. Keep up the good work. And Summer will come!

[@threefingeredguitar]

Great job. You seem much more confident and experienced now. Enjoy your new adventures (in a warm boat, I loved my Ebersbacher)

[@BethanyIvy]

Thanks so much! :)

[@JoranKikkekekekeke]

Thanks this was super useful, about to install into our steel 48' ketch and the last one I did was just sat outside in the cockpit whenever we needed it which was way too ghetto

[@BethanyIvy]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@pete9501]

Bethany, that will make living on board much more comfortable. Like you we chose to draw dry (ish) air from the outside rather than circulate damp air inside which electric heating does too. We find it take a couple of days when getting back on board if the boat is cold until heat reaches all the nooks and crannies, then the condensation reduces. Your yacht is coming along nicely as a home and nice one Nick for giving the installation a once over.

[@BethanyIvy]

For sure, the boat already feels so much more comfortable!

[@joewilliams5396]

A great job I agree, I've been looking at doing the same, I have a small trailer sailer leisure cabin cruiser, not a live aboard I wish to stay in overnight occasionally. Looks to be plenty for what I need. Thanks for sharing.

[@BethanyIvy]

Thanks for watching, good luck with your installation!

[@cseguin]

Thanks for sharing . . . I'm awaiting my diesel heater - it should arrive on Monday or Tuesday. I still have to cobble together all the proper bits for installing on my sailboat - so, this project will take a few weeks to complete. I'm still figuring out how I will be running all the ducting and air intakes and exhaust - I'm thinking of 2 vents - one near the companionway steps and one in the area of the head and v-berth. That should keeps thinks nice and toasty and dry. I'm keeping my Dickinson Newport wood burning stove just in case.

[@BethanyIvy]

Yeah I think figuring out where to run everything is the most challenging part! Good luck with your installation :)

[@martyn101101]

I fitted one to Aquarius last winter. The chinese ones cost less that a service on an eberspacher. I ended up spending considerably more on the parts (exhaust, fuel line etc) than the heater kit. Its surprising how many people dont fit a relay in the circuit and damage switch panels.

[@BethanyIvy]

Yes I also spent more on parts than on the heater!

[@ClanGunnBushcraft]

They quiet down once they warm up. You'll need it... guna be a cold winter! Are you a full time live aboard? My cheap 2kw heater is still going strong on its second winter

[@BethanyIvy]

Yep, I'm sure I'll be grateful for it when the cold weather hits!

[@elizabethshaw2465]

What was the make of heater ? ……is it still working?

[@sailingforeverautumn]

Is it a Vevor? It looks the same as mine.

[@BethanyIvy]

Mine is unbranded, but I think a lot of them are made in the same factory!