TB wrote:

I am looking for a gimbled single burner for use in bad weather. I have
seen a force 10 and a forespar advertised. Has any one had good/bad
experiences with either of thes units. Each uses a standard gas cylinder.
Tony


I have a cast aluminum thing that holds canned heat (sterno) and one
small cooking or coffee pot. No name on it, it hangs on a bulkhead
bracket. It's all curved cast aluminum, looks like like a gaggle of
eagles mating in midair, or half of a post hole auger bit.

I did spend a little time fitting my wife's camping stove, a one
burner, to it, then gave it back to her. It worked, but the tank
hung down too far to enable freedom to swing.

Never used it in anger, yet. Likely won't neither.

I am interested in modifying the 3 burner propane camp stove to
allow it to swing, but would need about a foot of space all around,
and that would monopolize too much space, aside from being too scary
in every other respect. If I ever go to sea a-voyaging, it will
probably be with Michalenas and a microwave:-) Or, I will learn to
cook on the exhaust manifold, using aluminum foil and duck tape or
long wire tie wraps.

I know, I know, it's called duct tape. We used to call it gun tape
in the army, it was forest (camo) green.

I did see one such half gimbaled stove arrangement, it looked like a
cast iron wood burning cook stove that used propane, it had a
ceramic tiled sole area under it, like a wood stove in a house, with
a brass foot rail border and there was a tether suitable for pole
climbing hanging on hooks to keep the cook close enough to be
scalded in a seaway. It only swung athwart ships. Pretty
impressive, but impractical if you ask me. There was some Z-brick
nearby too, almost comical to look at.

Hot meals do not get cooked on small vessels in a seaway.

If I recall, that boat also had a matching blue fur bunk coverlet
and toilet seat lid, and mirrors in the V-berth. Big mirrors.

I just had to check to see if it was a waterbed. Nope. Woulda fit,
though, the boat was gussied up purtier than a two dollar whore in a
cowboy saloon.

Eeww!

Terry K