Living in the Galveston Bay area, energy efficiency on my Krogen was very
important. Like Charles et al have said, you HAVE to have A/C down here in
the Summer. I had a $100 plus electricity bill the first summer I had the
Krogen... I went ballistic! First thing was to seal up the boat...
weather-strip or re-weatherstrip everywhere, seal up all the vents the
Krogen had built in, tint all the saloon windows with that dark limousine
tint, etc. However, the best thing I ever did was to install that foil/foam
house sheathing insulation in all the pilothouse windows, foil out of
course. Took 3 ea. 4' x 8' sheets, simply cut to fit where they required
pressing into place. Measuring the temp with the handy dandy IR thermometer,
I would read about 85 on the inside surface of the insulation, or 130 F
without. Talk about a major difference! My bill normally runs about $10 /
mo. in the winter, and the high this summer was last month, $25. This is
with two 16,000 btu units running set about 79 degrees F.
Oh yea, I spray the forward teak deck down with water 2-3 times a day if I
think about it. A tarp over it would probably help even more, but I just
can't make the boat that ugly!
Keith
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----- Original Message -----
From: "A Jensen" elnav@uniserve.com
If live-aboad boats were built to the same insulation standards as houses,
it would use a lot less energy.
Living in the Galveston Bay area, energy efficiency on my Krogen was very
important. Like Charles et al have said, you HAVE to have A/C down here in
the Summer. I had a $100 plus electricity bill the first summer I had the
Krogen... I went ballistic! First thing was to seal up the boat...
weather-strip or re-weatherstrip everywhere, seal up all the vents the
Krogen had built in, tint all the saloon windows with that dark limousine
tint, etc. However, the best thing I ever did was to install that foil/foam
house sheathing insulation in all the pilothouse windows, foil out of
course. Took 3 ea. 4' x 8' sheets, simply cut to fit where they required
pressing into place. Measuring the temp with the handy dandy IR thermometer,
I would read about 85 on the inside surface of the insulation, or 130 F
without. Talk about a major difference! My bill normally runs about $10 /
mo. in the winter, and the high this summer was last month, $25. This is
with two 16,000 btu units running set about 79 degrees F.
Oh yea, I spray the forward teak deck down with water 2-3 times a day if I
think about it. A tarp over it would probably help even more, but I just
can't make the boat that ugly!
Keith
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----- Original Message -----
From: "A Jensen" <elnav@uniserve.com>
> If live-aboad boats were built to the same insulation standards as houses,
> it would use a lot less energy.
