Welcome to Marine A/C Center. We can help you enjoy warmth & comfort in any weather with an air conditioning and heating system for your boat. We provide information and resources to help you find a heating and air conditioning system for your vessel. Experience total climate control and perfect comfort levels all year round. Heating and air conditioning systems have maximum comfort with quality you can count on.

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The advantages of an air and heating system:

• Real comfort below deck on cool evenings
• Good year round including extreme icy cold situations
• Short heating-up times with the high output
• Constant comfort zone via the electronic thermostat
• Compact, space saving design
• Simple procedures for quick and easy installation
• Highly affordable
• Low fuel consumption
• On-board heating for comfort the whole year round

Classification of motor yachts:

• Day cruiser yacht - no cabin, sparse amenities such as refrigerator and plumbing
• Weekender yacht - one or two basic cabins, basic galley appliances and plumbing
• Cruising yacht - sufficient amenities to allow for living aboard for extended periods
• Sport Fish yacht  - yacht with living amenities and sporting fishing equipment
• Luxury yacht - similar to the last three types of yachts, simply with more luxurious finishings/amenities

Come stormy seas or glorious sunshine, a gentle breeze or a howling gale - there's no other place where the weather changes as suddenly as when out at sea. But if you have a heating system on board, you're equipped for any weather. Even the iciest spray and the coldest of showers on deck won't bother you anymore, as long as you can warm yourself up again in the pleasant warmth of your cabin. A heating system is good for you and for your yacht: not only do you benefit from the prophylactic effect against troublesome colds and flu, but you also protect the fittings and equipment of your boat against the effects of long-term dampness. With the addition of an air heating system you will have complete cabin comfort climate control for any season.

Nautical Glossary and Boating Terms:

• Above board – On or above the deck, in plain view, not hiding anything.
• Abaft – Toward the stern, relative to some object
• Abeam – 'On the beam', bearing at right angles to the centerline of the ship's keel.
• Aft – Towards the stern (of the vessel)
• Ahead – Forward of the bow.
• Aloft – Above the ship's uppermost solid structure; overhead or high above.
• Astern – Toward the stern; an object or vessel that is abaft another vessel or object.
• Berth – A bed on a boat, or a space in a port or harbour where a vessel can be tied up.
• Bilge – Compartment at bottom of hull where water collects to be pumped out.
• Bimini – Weather-resistant fabric stretched over a stainless steel frame.
• Buoy – A floating object  which is anchored at a given position for navigation.
• Bow – The front of a ship.
• Bowline – A type of knot, producing a strong loop of a fixed size.
• Bulkhead – An upright wall within the hull of a ship. Particularly a load bearing wall.
• Cabin – an enclosed room on a deck or flat.
• Capsize – When a ship or boat lists too far and rolls over, exposing the keel.
• Cleat – A stationary device used to secure a rope aboard a vessel.
• Compass – Navigational instrument that revolutionised travel.
• Courses – The mainsail, foresail, and the mizzen.
• Fathom – A unit of length equal to 6 feet.
• Flank – The maximum speed of a ship. Faster than "full speed".
• Furl – To roll or wrap a sail around the mast or spar to which it is attached.
• Galley – the kitchen of the ship
• Haul wind – To point the ship so as to be heading in the same direction as the wind, generally not the fastest point of travel on a sailing vessel.
• Head – The toilet or latrine of a vessel, which for sailing ships projected from the bows
• Headsail – Any sail flown in front of the most forward mast.
• Hull – The shell and framework of the basic flotation-oriented part of a ship
• Inboard-Outboard drive system – A larger Power Boating alternative drive system to transom mounted outboard
• Jib – A triangular staysail at the front of a ship.
• Keel – The central structural basis of the hull
• Larboard – The left side of the ship (archaic, see port). cf. starboard.
• League – A unit of length, normally equal to three nautical miles.
• Marina – a docking facility for small ships and yachts.
• Mast – A vertical pole on a ship which supports sails or rigging.
• Moor – to attach a boat to a mooring buoy or post. Also, to a dock a ship.
• Port – Towards the left-hand side of the ship facing forward (formerly Larboard). Denoted with a red light at night.
• Rigging – The system of masts and lines on ships and other sailing vessels.
• Roll – A vessel's motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft axis. List (qv) is a lasting tilt in the roll direction.
• Sea anchor – A stabilizer deployed in the water for heaving to in heavy weather. It acts as a brake and keeps the hull in line with the wind and perpendicular to waves.
• Sheer – The upward curve of a vessel's longitudinal lines as viewed from the side.
• Shoal – Shallow water that is a hazard to navigation.
• Spinnaker – A large sail flown in front of the vessel while heading downwind.
• Splice – To join lines (ropes, cables etc.) by unravelling their ends and intertwining them to form a continuous line. To form an eye or a knot by splicing.
• Starboard – Towards the right-hand side of a vessel facing forward. Denoted with a green light at night.
• Stern – The rear part of a ship, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail.
• Surge – A vessel's transient motion in a fore and aft direction.
• Sway – A vessel's motion from side to side.
• Topsail – The second sail (counting from the bottom) up a mast. These may be either square sails or fore-and-aft ones, in which case they often "fill in" between the mast and the gaff of the sail below.
• Towing – The operation of drawing a vessel forward by means of long lines.
• Transom – a more or less flat surface across the stern of a vessel.
• Wake – Turbulence behind a ship
• Yaw – A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side.

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