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I had one boat with Kerosene stove. It's a PITA. You have to have alcohol also to preheat etc. Once heated and going it's a nice cooking unit, although false starts prevail alot..
You can burn kerosene in most diesel heating units. It burns much cleaner and will help prevent sooting and maintenance problems in Webasto and Espar units. I had a little Toyoset forced air freestanding unit on one boat, and once I worked the bugs out it was great. I had to have the company rep out when I first started up though due to a defective "flame mat".
Installed properly, propane should be very safe, it is used in millions of recreational vehicles and boats for cooking and for refrigeration.... not to mention houses. many houses up here in the NW use propane where natural gas is not available. Living aboard, one tank lasted me about 5 weeks. Think of all the times you would have to to preheat with alcohol, refill the kerosene tank etc in 5 weeks. It's easy to smell a propane leak.
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