Terry Spragg wrote:

As well, pellet stoves can burn small wood efficiently, with forced
draught. The best pellets are made from waste from flooring and
cabinet scraps. The ash all goes up the pipe. Haven't seen any small
pellet stoves, though.

Hi Terry,

We don't want to be thinking too far ashore about a boat woodstove.
Even if a pellet unit of tiny size could be fabbed it would require the
complexities of an automated feed auger, electricity-hungry draught
blower, increased maintenance, lower overall reliability, and be
restriced to a very limited type & sources of fuel. Pellets are also
easy to get wet in a marine environment & hard to dry out if they do.

BTW a small shoreside stove of uncoated CI will grow rust aboard a boat
faster than crabs in a Carribean whorehouse, and must be continually
maintained & recoated with stove paint, which is a PITA. Someone with
vision & some capital needs to start spec-ing/subbing overseas &
selling a tiny porcelain-coated well-fitted cast iron woodstove that is
well thought-out for versatility & simplicity at a cheap price. They
would sell thousands of them and make a killing, especially if they may
be exempted from the ridiculous new US EPA woodstove emission
requirements (and their equivalents elsewhere) as the new and inferior
copies of the insultingly overpriced Lunenbergs appear to be. Those
guys need some serious competition, and many people would want one
ashore in small spaces as well. A lot of excellent CI goods are
produced cheaply in Taiwan (along with some very crappy iron too), as
long as the importer specifies good stuff; my Powermatic tablesaw is
Taiwanese CI, and they are still recycling all the ships we've scrapped
there.

I am willing to jump into this project if anyone has the capital and
cajones to do it.