Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Part 1
• HEATING ON BOARD
• The season is never long enough
• Safety first:
• Makeshift heating unites are dangerous
• Rules for safe, efficient heating
• Ventilation
• Choosing a system:
• The fuel factor
• Other factors
• Modern hot air and hot water systems
• Hot water heating systems
• Combined cook and heat
• Heat requirement - equipment size
• Installation of the heating system:
• Examples and tips from practical experience
• Blown air heating systems with air ducts
• Water for domestic use, heating with a hot air system
• Hot water systems: heater location, pipe runs, radiators and domestic water heating
• Run of waste gas and combustion air ducting
• The fuel supply system
• Electricity supply
• The installation of a diesel hot air heating system
• Part 2
• REFRIGERATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING ON BOARD
• Regrigerating foodstuffs:
• Peltier-effect cold boxes
• Oscillating-compressor cold boxes
• How is cold generated?
• The principle of regrigeration using a compressor:
• The eutectic plate
• Commercially available compressor refrigeration system
• Electronics in refrigeration
• Absorption-type refrigerator installations:
• How does the absorption-type system operate?
• Constructing a chest fridge-freezer:
• Materials
• Installing a refrigerator in a crockery locker in a 7.6m sailing boat
• Energy-saving tips when refrigerating
• Air-conditioning the cabin:
• What type of boat do you have?
• Where is the boat being sailed?
• What do you expect from your air-conditioning system?
• Hot air heating system used for air-conditioning
• Air-conditioning appliances (evaporator and blower combined)
• Air-conditioning larger vessels or yachts, 12m or more
• Air-conditioning with central refrigerating unit and eutectic plates with blowers
• Central air-conditioning system
• Summary of features for air and water cooling
• Manufacturers of air-conditioning and heating equipment and generators
• Index
• Acknowledgements