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Date Posted: 06:22:58 10/16/08 Thu
Author: Mr. Lucky
Subject: Re: Stoves.
In reply to: Dan B 's message, "Re: Stoves." on 20:24:39 10/15/08 Wed

Dan - you're doing some great research there. James Baldwin's Atom website shows his conversion of a Primus type kero stove to a gimbled ship's stove. I've and old one of those that I'll give you, since I've never had much luck getting the thing going without having huge flareups with this black sooty smoke (which isn't much of a problem if the down belows is already painted flat black).

Not sure, but I think you change jets if burning kero instead of something more volatile. (and, for what it's worth, vegetable oil must be preheated to burn in vehicles)

The fancy yachts used to have the (more expensive) nickle (chrome) plated brass lamps, and the workboats had the funky tarnished brass lamps, which has a less pretentious look to it. The Carrs (another famous simple sailing couple) used the tarnished version one of those very bright pump up kero (Tilly?) lanterns down below on Curlew. I remember a picture from an old Cruising World of their boat, down below, where they made the salon table from a spare wooden wind vane blade spanning from sette to sette. Very simple. Or Moitessier's advice (I'm running on here) to sail away on your newly completed bare hull, gradually completing the the interior as money or driftwood or rubber bands became available. [grin]

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