Single-burner stoves

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I've seen gimballed single-burner stoves in various French racers, and spotting them in an old pic of Dee Caffari's RTW setup prompts the question......


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What are they called and where might they be acquired? :cool:
 
sarabande said:
they look like Coleman units in customised two-axis gimbals.


I'll ferret for the model and suppliers...


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Amazon have both gas and spirit stoves, but I'd hazard a guess that you might need to do some careful calcs with centre of gravity and position of the axes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coleman-Spo...&qid=1371139952&sr=1-2&keywords=coleman+stove
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I have one of those

bloody frightening

I would not use it in a boat

it frequently bursts into sheets of flame before settling down to a good powerful burn

which is fine outside

but not inside thanks
 
have you not done your Dragon Taming course as part of the Duck Punt Health and Safety (Risk Assessment and Moderation) / Continuing Professional Boaty Development Strategy ? Oh tut :)
 
Fantasie 19 said:
Some idea's here?

http://www.wwpotterowners.com/FoodProvisioningStovesB.html
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Now THERE are some good ideas! Ta muchly....


As for -

bloody frightening ....it frequently bursts into sheets of flame before settling down
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I s'pose that is accompanied by 'bursting into floods of tears before settling down'. :rolleyes:


If it's good enuff for Dee Caffari to take all around the world 'the hard way' it's good enuff for me to do me coffee an' shaving water in.
 
I always understood that the little ocean racers like the 6.5 mtr. guys used a single camping gaz with a pot welded to it, then gimbled high up. Every thing was cooked in the one pot. Hardy types. (Not much need for shaving water, from the pics)

Coleman; We have one of their canoes, good fun. But the stoves used to use petrol, pressurized too, not on my boat!!
 
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Don't much fancy the pressurized petrol as fuel. Paraffin is OK if you are 'laxed about the characteristic smell and soot and/or have no sense of smell or decorum. Just occasionally, when not being given sufficient attention on lighting, one will spew burning paraffin over/down out of the pre-heat cup and onto the reservoir tank. That heat adds to the internal pressure, squeezing out more fuel, which adds to..... and so on. Learned about this as a yooth in wee tents high on Scottish hills, in winter. Kept a stick, ice axe, or similar handy so the offending article could be catapulted out the tent door and out into the snow.

The guys helping sail Wil Stirling's new-build lugger 'Alert' from Plymouth to points north had never operated a paraffin stove. This one was fixed to the galley below. "Can't be difficult" was the consensus, so they got started. I watched with interest from the helming bench as the initial small flame crept over the cup and dribbled, un-noticed, down onto the tank. The boys were busy doing something else..... No focus. A minute later, there was a four-foot column of yellow sooty flame licking the deckhead and 3 very alarmed squawks from below. There was some 'audible consternation' and 3 young bucks scrambled up onto the deck. There was no fire blanket. The one extinguisher, powder, was at the other end of the forecabin. "Want it put out?" I grinned. ( There's a trick to this. Don't try this at home. )

Twenty seconds later, flames out, this old guy re-emerged with only some sizzled hair on his left-hand finger and thumb. "Would you like me to start it properly and put the kettle on?" I smugly inquired. If looks could kill..... :rolleyes:
 
HaH.

Girl has sold her smallish GRP cruiser and has to deliver it from Gib to somewhere on the Costas. Bloke with little experience comes as crew. After sailing for a bit, he goes below to cook 'something'. " Do you have a fire extingusher?" he asks, "Yes, to the right of the galley". "Umm, can't reach it". Which leaves them floating in the dinghy.....No VHF, as she had taken it out for her next boat. Bit later, a Naval Frigate picks them up. She wondered how they found them and the Skipper said " We could hardly miss that column of smoke"
 
Some years ago I bought a Camping Gaz single burner - safe to the extent that the bottle is disconnected by a simple lever -and made a simple A frame gimbal. still working well.
 
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