Outstanding link, great excerpt. Thanks!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Kelch" <doug_kelch@yahoo.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: gimballed stove alternative? The following is the stove set up from a 21 ft, low cabin world cruiser in the early 70's - a nice safe gimbal arrangement for a homemade stove. The link to the story is: http://www.mavc2002.com/caledoniayawl/aegresum.htm Our cooker comprised a regular kerosene burning Primus pressure stove tied down in the bottom of an empty cylinder shaped 20 litre paint can. Access to the stove was through a hole (with hinged door) cut in the lower half on one side. The stove top was about half way up the can, just fitting the diameter of the can. A slot was cut in the upper half to take the handle of a pot or frying pan. We bought two pots and a fry pan which exactly fitted inside the can. The top of the largest pot was level with the top of the surrounding can. Gimbal Part The paint can had two lugs welded onto each side at the top which fitted into two arms coming down from the cabin top just inside the hatch, to port. The can and its contents could thus swing laterally across the boat as the boat heeled. Set up, lit and cooking, (with the side door closed), the cooker was unaffected by wind or spray (or even the top of the odd wave we discovered on more than one occasion) and it was impossible to touch anything hot by accident, so no burns. Ah, but what about lighting?, I hear you say. Conventionally basic Primus stoves are troublesome to light, requiring pre-heating of the fuel vaporiser with alcohol or the like. We took a more modern approach, using a GAZ cartridged blow lamp. It was so simple: pump up the kero pressure on the Primus but keep the fuel turned off, light the blowlamp (1 match), heat the cooker burner (count to 5 max), turn on cooker fuel - hey presto, going. Each Gaz cartridge lasted about two months lighting the cooker about 6 times a day minimum. With spares and kero available in every port this was a truly great cooking arrangement.