[C320-list] Water Heater

[Jeff Hare]

I can say that a couple times when motoring really hard against a current
up-river back to our marina (and trying to make the next drawbridge opening
before a storm), we've seen our engine heat up a lot.  We'd just run the hot
water in the galley sink and see the temp drop back to an acceptable range.
So, it does have an effect but like John said, it's only 5 or 6 gallons so
it doesn't take a hot engine very long to heat that up.

-Jeff

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[mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of John Meyers
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 9:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [C320-list] Water Heater

After the water tank is hot it stops helping cool the engine.

Nice to have hot water.


On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Don Poole <dpoole15 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone have any thoughts on how much of a heat exchanger effect the 
> galley water heater might have relative to cooling the engine? I 
> assume it would be minimal if any.