Replumbing an Outboard for Heat

The black tube in the side is the inlet air there's usually a coupler in the back and they put a triple wall tube inside the cabin and the exhaust is the black and silver one that goes up over the side. They're extremely popular up here where we have cold pretty much from September until it froze the harbor last week. The fullyrigged kits are about 1200 up here, they are very popular I've probably seen a dozen or more this fall.

 

It's cold as heck inside my house. Everyone wears a wool hat indoors. 2 sweaters, long underwear

 

Well sweaters and long underwear are likely always going to be cheaper than a heater. Even if you find a warm water off the engine block plumbing in a hydronic head isn't going to be free.

 

Nope. It won't. With my engine typically at 181°f or 83°c, that water is too hot to use directly. I'd want a heat exchanger, to fresh water with a variable rate of flow.

 

Cheer up, it's good reason to stay really close to the loved one.... Aand we just passed the longest night of the year!

 

A day to stick close to the fireplace

 

Our current temp is -11F with windchill -33F..had to push the snowblower in the garage

 

Yes, -10F here, saw some guys headed to the launch to go fishing when it warmed to a comfy +1F

 

No thanks, unless I was under contract. I suppose in a heated cabin, but lines freeze so fast I'm not sure how they fish.

 

With credit to @baeckmo .

The cooling water from one of the heads is just dumped into a passage in the casting in the LU and pours out of slots of the antiventilation plate. In this outboard configuration I would use that water. . The passage in the casting could hold a cup of some sort that could catch enough very hot water to do thejob, while letting most water fo by.