HEATING WATER ABOARD

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ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED - HOW DO YOU HEAT WATER FOR TEA OR SOUP? WHAT 12 VOLT APPLIANCES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY USED BY YOU? WE NEED OUR TEA! THANK YOU.
AJ (MRS FOOG)
 
Most folks use some type of stove. Many of the C Dories are fitted with a Wallas Diesel stove, or Oringo Alcohol stove. Some have used the cartridge type of propane stoves, such as those made by Kenyon in the past. I don't like those inside of a boat because of potential explosion--better used in the cockpit--what not to use is a coleman naphtha type os stove.

There are some 12 volt "pots" which truckers use for heating water--they are relitatively slow and use a fair amount of 12 volt power--especially considering that the smaller outboards do not have a large alternator or charging circuit.
 
We use either the Wallas (if it's running anyway) or we use a simple single burner butane stove like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Butane-Bur ... 302&sr=1-1

It will boil half a teapot of cold water in 3-4 minutes and we keep windows cracked a bit extra when we use it sitting on the lid of the wallas.

I would consider an electric teapot for sure if I was a tea lover. There are 12v and 110v models of course and I am not sure which might be more efficient. The 110v versions would of course require an inverter that you might already have. You would want to look at how many watts it needs and how long you need to run it for a pot of water.

How are you configured for 12v power? How many house batteries and what size or how many amp hours do you have at your disposal and what type of outboard are you running with?

12v example

http://www.amazon.com/Roadpro-12V-Hot-P ... 122&sr=8-6
 
we use a kenyon single burner butane stove inside the cabin or, more frequently a Coleman fold n'go 2 burner propane stove in the cockpit .
 
I make coffee almost every day I am on the boat (a couple times a week) and I just use the alcohol stove. Quick enough, cheap enough. On the down side, a sweet alcohol odor so I need to crack the door.
 
The Wallas or the butane burner for us if we aren't "plugged in." If we are at a dock with power or have the generator fired up, Joan has a single cup coffee maker or the microwave... there are some advantages to not traveling light. :wink:
 
Found an example 12v unit that takes 170 watts (nearly 15amps) for up to 20 minutes for boiling. That could run from a standard group 24 deep cycle house battery for over 4 hours (till dead) so it doesn't seem like 20 minutes would be a problem at all and is well within a 50% safe discharge. If you are also running a large outboard at the time, it would be a non-issue. Not expensive and doesn't need an inverter either

This is a similar unit with same spec:

http://www.amazon.com/Eurow-TE1-401-Aut ... B0047ENT8U
 
If you still have the c-16 cruiser I would look at a gimbel mount heating element like the one on DoryLvr boat check out his pictures and you will see a little gimbel mounted propane single burner stove (heating element)

or you could get a small table and use a coleman portable stove ??
 
We use a single burner butane stove to heat water in our boat, it will boil a large kettle of water in about 4 minutes, then we fill a 2 liter thermal pump hot pot with the boiling water and make coffee at the same time. The Zojirushi brand thermal pot will keep the water at about 160 degrees for 24 hours giving us utility water for cooking and washing throughout the day, and for face washing the next morning. The butane stoves are available almost everywhere for $40-$80 (Westmarine, Walmart, kitchen stores, etc) and the butane cannisters should be around $4 each. We get them at Ace Hardware. Rich & Christie
 
Not exactly on topic, but some O/Bs' tell-tale streams produce significantly warmed water - useful in some circumstances. My older 4hp Merc used to put out warm water: collect some for washing (in freshwater) or into a bag/cooler/hotwater-bottle :idea for heat source (in seawater.) A newer 4 hp Merc had a cold tell-tale stream (different mfr?) These were on 16-19 ft sailboats; the bigger O/Bs on C-Dorys might be even more useful. I never checked my Honda 90 when I still had NoddyBleu. :sad
 
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