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Date: September 9, 2009 10:43:24 PM EDT
To: morganowners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [morganowners] On Board Heat
Reply-To: morganowners@yahoogroups.com

I have a Sardine woodburning stove in my boat, and it does a fantastic job of keeping the v-berth and center cabin warm in the winter. We fuel it with chemical logs cut in half, but it's also run fine on scrap plywood, flooring, driftwood, etc. We installed it in the fore corner of the center cabin, with the pipe running up through the deck (not the roof deck, the step deck). The water-filled bronze hoozit in the deck does an excellent job of keeping the pipe heat from getting through to the fiberglass, even when the pipe is running red-hot. Never had problems with spray and wave slop getting down into the pipe either. Used copper hammered over gypsum/fiberglass wallboard as radiant reflectors on 3 sides of the stove.