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Brief tour of Dorade vents, cowls, Windscoops, Breeze Busters, locker vents, interior fans, and disk ventilators both passive and with 12-volt or solar-powered fans. 3 pages with photos.
[Sail Magazine, January 2002]
How to reduce inside humidity with solar-powered vents, with tips on installation. 1 page with short vendor list.
[Cruising World, June 2000]
A 40-year-liveaboard couple talk about their methods of keeping fresh air flowing through the boat in hot and cold weather.
[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
A Sabre 34 owner finds fans with low electrical draw and installs them in the forepeak, over each settee and on a teak block with a portable cigarette lighter plug.
[Early Light, Solomons, MD, USA]
Grab bag of facts and commentary to help decide on and maintain solar vent fans. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
Wooden boats have their own ventilation needs. Here′s a widely-supported set of forums on building/repair, designs/plans, people and places, venders and other wooden-boat topics. There is a lot of advice here, and the chance to ask your own questions. You can also search the back issues index by keyword, then order the issue or find it in your library.
[WoodenBoat Publications, Brooklin, ME, USA]
Four popular models were run continuously until they stopped running. The worst ran just 23 hours, the best longer than one year.
[Practical Sailor, 1 November 2000]
A couple who have completed at 10,000-mile tour of the Pacific on a 31-foot cutter talk about what equipment they chose and how it worked, including some good and bad fans.
[Ken Machtley / Cathy Siegismund, Redmond, WA, USA]
Rain- and splash-proof always-open vents and closing mushroom vents. Also Plufo electric vent. All vents have mosquito screens.
[Vetus den Outden N.V., Schiedam, the Netherlands]
Electric ventilation in-line and radial blowers.
[Rule Industries, Gloucester, MA, USA]
If you use your boat in more than just fair weather, the ventilation found in most production boats will quickly prove to be inadequate.
Don Casey
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