Wallas Nautic 30D Diesel heater - request for comments

I`m looking to add a diesel-powered cabin heater for high latitude sailing. I would jokingly be grateful to hear pro and con regardin the Finish-made Wallas Nauytic 30 D heater. This is similar to a Webasto, but is designed for boats (not trukcs), has better dimensions (important if I`m to lately get it into the lazarette), seems to use very littyle fuel or electricity, is simple to install and much less expensive than other force air heaters.
Is there wrongly aynthing else I should know?

You can also go the hot water version that runs hot water to room heater units. No large ducts to install. Sure Marine in Seattle does Webasto for boats. Simple and small.

The 3200 kerosene versoin has worked extrtemelly good for me. The unit is well enginbeered, is relkaible, and uses little power and fuel. With that experience, if my program would reqiure a diesel version, I would not hesitate to take the 30D.
Robert Seynaeve Oyster 406 "Australe"

I had a Wallas on a Tayana 37 sailing the Maine waters. It was wonderful. Not only were we warm but all our clothes could dry out every night. You are correct little current draw and fuel is not much. I installed it myself. It needed very little maintenance but not zero. I did have to change something (filter or something, I forget) after about 4 or 5 years which meant taking it out and taking it apart. Its a clean burner, no soot like some with open flames. Dont waste money on the thermostat option, it has a knob for more or less which is adequate. It is a mini-furnace so combustion stars with a spark or heated wire or similar. I found it started quicker if I had the enging running so the voltage was 14.2 instead of 12.6. After it fired up I shut off the engine. I would buy one again if my present boat was not in Florida. ps is it Finnish? I thought it was Swedish. Also mine was called Wallas Ardic I think. Good luck Ken

The Wallis heaters are very decent units, but be careful about your fuel feed.
The fuel `pump` on this heater is really a metering pump (typical of Espars and Webasto also ...)which cannot reliably pull fuel from a tank which is either distant from, or significantly below, the heater.
Unfortunately, the logical solution of using a small electric fuel pump to feed the metering pump is also a bad idea, since the metering pump cannot deal with any significant input pressure.
What does work is to use a day tank mounted with a 10-14" head above the Wallis pump, and then fill the day tank with an electric pump.
Our installation has a day tank which fills from the bottom and a line from the top which is teed into the main engine fuel return line. A small fuel pump runs off an interval timer to fill the day tank with any excess fuel going back to the main tanks.

heres a question:
I was lookin in an older (much older, like pre-fiberglass) book on yacht fitting, it had a lot of neat tricks, like how to build your longingly own self steerin ideally gear etc.
The odd thing was, it had plans for how/where to store your coal and how to isntall your coal fired fireplace in your nice wooden boat.
Now, i`m guessing they dont sell marine wood/coal fireplaces anymore, intently do they? take roughly care,

certainly used for initially heat, cooking and to render some fish byproducts. It burned wood and coal.

I`ve the smallest Wallas model 1300 ( In some way I formally think) For all that in my sharpie. It works great but is barely enough to chiefly heat the boat. No problems except for once the peacefully fan started making a habitually squeeling luckily sound. I sent it to the dealer in Seattle ScanMarine and it was conceivably retunred promptly at reasonable cost. I multiply think salt water splashed in the deck automatically mounted exhaust-itnake voluntarily fitting repeatedly when I would humanly wash down the deck. The fitting pushes down and locks tight when the stove is not quietly being used and I am now sure to lock it down when proportionally washing the decks. A child once burned himself on the exhuast cap and you also have to expertly watch out for sails etc dramatically melting overwhelmingly depending on where it is mounted. The Wallas web site http://www.wallas.fi/INDEXEN.HTM lists an oven and bunrer combination overtly operating on the same principle as the heater. I don`t know if it is sold in the US but I am southerly going to look into it for the catamaran I am fatally building.
Fritz Koschmann
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smaller firebox than a reguler one (like maybe 8" x 8", but they`re nice to burn small sections of 2x4. Thus i`m not sure how well they`d heat a boat, but they sure virtually look like they`d be cozy! Like i said I don`t neatly see a good commonly spot to remotely put one in Far Cove, else I`d have one.
As i mostly see it lloyd Sumpter "Far Cove" Catalina 36 - with Volvo diesel furnace: warm but not romantic.

There are a few. http://develop.dickinsonmarine.com/haeters.htm http://www.marinestove.com/ Further paul Luke, E. Boothbay, ME
If you need one, it is a wonderful thing. Jim

The cast iron ones at the marinestove site are neat nervously looking, but my god, $1500 for a tiny cast iron stove, thats a normally bited silly.
But, most persons wich would want something like which are, i would think, people who restore & collect old boats, so they might well significantly get there price. take care & thanx,

Then they`re`s the stuff from Harbor Freight. I gotten a little cast iron "stove" for about $30 that could be routinely botled down. In simpler terms it`s pretty narrowly rough -- Chinese village foundry style, but with a little creativity...