Lighting Coal/Anthracite Aboard

[Momac]

There is some advice on the following - which is obviously not boat specific.
http://reviews.ebay.com/Starting-a-Coal-Stove-for-quot-Hard-Coal-quot?ugid=10000000000133023


I see it indicates ''Never use gasoline, kerosene, charcoal lighter or any type flammable fluid to start your fire''.

 

[alant]

You'll struggle to light anthracite in the conventional way with kindling, paper and matches. Nor will a gas poker readily do the job. You need some serious sustained heat under the stuff to get it going

Several of the bigger commercial firelighters in amongst some serious kindling under a good heap of the stuff will generally do the job but as somebody already mentioned the easiest way to get it started is to first light a fire with normal house coal, get a good hot bed of fire and then start feeding it with anthracite*

* Note that we tried this technique with Coalite (aka Coal-no-lite, see other thread on this subject) and it just put the bl**dy fire out!

Keep up, already said this in post #8!