Hizonor wrote: > Nothing to do with luck, dear boy, everything to do with a superb > construction from a master craftsman in the boatbuilding world and a well > insulated and properly maintained boat. I similarly had concerns when > returning from abroad recently but found the Mikuni had done it's stuff and > the boat actually felt quite warm!
Having just recovered from the coughing fit that your posting induced in me (I'm still feeling queasy now) I feel that I can add something on the Mikuni side. Leaving a Mikuni cycling on and off at a very low frost setting is a sure way to carbon up the heater plug and, as a result, blow the main fuse preventing further ignitions for sure. It would be better to leave the Mikuni on a much higher room temperature setting but only run it for a couple of limited periods per day controlled by a timer clock. All the Mikuni/Webasto/Eberspacher type of heaters don't like low temperature, short duration burning and would be better left to burn well for longer periods. The fact that His Beekiness got away with it IS down to pure good luck. Had the freezing weather continued for longer it would have been a different story. (As an extra aside I hope His Beekiness cleared the two air swirl holes when he replaced the heater plug and decoked the gauze or else he'll have the plug burn out again very soon.) > > I have a gun you can borrow :-) Don't lend it to me, lend it to Wendy. She can make VERY good use of it and solve one of the major problems in her life. She could always claim in her defence that she had been driven to insanity. I'd act as a character witness! ;-))) Roger
