Heating

Big news (and big expense), we have finally made a decision and spent some money; we now own two very expensive boxes full of stuff labelled Webasto, that will hopefully fill the boat with lovely warm air if I can install it properly. The supplied instructions are for fitting a different heater into a lorry, and having found the correct instructions online I find that they are aimed a professional installers. Still in for a penny in for a pound, what could possibly go wrong (fire aboard obviously; wrecking the whole kit; Carbon Monoxide poisoning; etc!)?

This is a significant development but if we are going to use the boat for any length of time at the beginning and end of the season we will need to be able to generate some heat to make life comfortable. There is going to be a significant compromise as the unit will take up quite a lot of space in the cockpit locker, space that we don’t really have to spare. I am also quite concerned about the installation but given my capacity to over-analyse any problem I should probably make a plan and get on with it. I may have to take to heart some advice that I read yesterday pertaining to boat building, “we’re not building a piano”.

P.S. No progress with chart updates yet.