Tod, Good question! With this particular arrangement, the hanging cable is rather long-about 2'-and thus it's sine wave would have a fairly long period that would inhibit rhythmic, high arc swings. However, I've never tried it in a chop, since such conditions rarely exist in Middle Tennessee. Having piqued my curiosity, I shall look for opportunities to find out. IMHO, it's best to cook in the cockpit of a small boat rather than the cabin, for safety reasons-it's easier to evade hot materials in the event of a mishap, and these stove do have propane in their fuel mix. Toying with explosions is not why I'm out there. Speaking of toys, I also have an Esbit pocket stove that I keep on board all the time. It's tiny, the size of a deck of cards, and uses very safe solid fuel. Though it requires a heat resistant surface to sit on, and isn't powerful, it's fun to heat water or beanie weenies for the kids when we're out messing about. They're also cheap. I think I got mine for $10 from Campmor In a message dated 11/4/2002 5:59:44 PM Central Standard Time, htmills@bright.net writes:
Thanks, Steve
One thing I've wondered about hanging anything in the boat is if it should get to swinging harmonically......I've hung up my VHF radio only to have it swing (from it's loop) so violently that it smacked the cabin top and went flying across the cabin. And it wasn't even very rough out, it just happened to be the right frequency.
Someone on the Cruising World board recently suggested experimenting with it to try to dampen the swinging. I'm not sure how a stove and pot would behave; I'll have to try that next season.
Have you tried it out in some chop?
Thanks,
Tod
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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
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.
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