"Armond Perretta" wrote in message ...
Alvin North wrote:
I have acquired an old boat (Cape Dory 28) about 25 years old. It
has a Kenyon stove Homestrand (SN 152460). A quart tank with pump
up, large dial for clean and close. What type fuel, alcohol or
kerosene? Thanks, A North

Depends. The stove _as_shipped_ usually required denatured alcohol.
However Kenyon (and others) offered a kerosene burner conversion kit that
looked almost identical to the alcohol burners. It even used the same tank,
although the setup was really minimal at best. In all probability you have
alcohol. If so, observe the warnings of the other posters.

BTW I have a CD 28 that shipped with the same stove. Best thing I did was
to dump it at the first opportunity.

Better yet, do what I did to the exact same model. Take out the
burners and the tank and everything else except the burner wells.
Insert large cans of sterno into them an raise the burner pot holdersm
with longer screws. It works as well as the alchohol and is MUCH
safer