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Date Posted: 08:51:29 04/22/08 Tue
Author: Alexander
Subject: Re: Cook Stoves for Tough TImes
In reply to: RadioRay 's message, "Cook Stoves for Tough TImes" on 10:06:24 04/21/08 Mon

Ray,
I lived with wood hear for about 20 years here in the Pacific North West and always found it a delightful fuel. It feels good, smells good, and provides a nice dry heat which is very welcome on cold or rainy days. The issue, of course, is availability. Here, it is easy enough to beachcomb up enough fuel to solve the problem without even having to cut things up except for kindling. I mostly used bark off the beach. It does, of course, have a salt content which is hard on stoves over the long term, but, all in all, it is an excellent fuel. When I sailed south, however, the problem was finding enough fuel to meet the problem. California, despite all its advertizing, is quite chilly in the winter along the coast and fuel is pretty hard to come by. Once you get a bit farther south--Mexico and into the tropics for example--the issue solves itself: you don't need heat. I've been on lots of boats that use diesel stoves and, while they provide excellent heat, they are smelly and leave all sorts of nasty soot on things, decks, sails, etc. Somehow, they all seem to find ways to leak and drip oil about which is not so pleasant, either. I've also tried coal which makes a nice fire, but, like diesel, is smelly and dirty. Out here, it is very hard to come by. If you have a reasonable supply of free wood, I'd say that was the way to go.

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