Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee, I have been looking for a good coffee maker
with a thermal carafe that would fit in the galley without taking up much
space and not end up on the deck. Finally found this:
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?...8527&id=860319
at Defender.

Anyone seen one of these in person? Most built in coffee makers run two
boat bucks or more. I am wondering if this thing is built well enough to
hold up.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee,

These things take enormous power to run even if you can find one which
operates well underway. It'd be like running an electric iron. OTOH, if
you only mean to use it while at dock by shore power, I'd guess anything
will do. Do you expect to run this thing while underway on a sailboat?

My personal experience while underway is that the LEAST of my concerns
about hot liquids is the exact coffee blend or how good it tastes.
Anything hot tastes wonderful.

I am setting Rutu up as an island hopper that will spend days at anchor so I
want some creature comforts. The advantage of a thermal carafe type maker
is that it takes about 7 minutes to brew and then cuts off. At the rated
1000 watts that works out to about 11 AH. allowing for losses in the
inverter. Rutu has an 850 AH house bank and a pair of 120W solar panels so I
am going to indulge myself a little. :-)

What worries me more is a crew of 2 women who don't feel civilized away from
their hair dryers. :-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
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Glenn Ashmore wrote:
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee,

These things take enormous power to run even if you can find one which
operates well underway. It'd be like running an electric iron. OTOH, if
you only mean to use it while at dock by shore power, I'd guess anything
will do. Do you expect to run this thing while underway on a sailboat?

My personal experience while underway is that the LEAST of my concerns
about hot liquids is the exact coffee blend or how good it tastes.
Anything hot tastes wonderful.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:52:53 -0500, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

What worries me more is a crew of 2 women who don't feel civilized away from
their hair dryers. :-)

We find that hair dryers require generator time.

For coffee we like Melita filters with the plastic cone and the paper
filters. They are cheap and make great coffee, just add boiled water
from some source.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:30:43 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:52:53 -0500, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

What worries me more is a crew of 2 women who don't feel civilized away from
their hair dryers. :-)

We find that hair dryers require generator time.

For coffee we like Melita filters with the plastic cone and the paper
filters. They are cheap and make great coffee, just add boiled water
from some source.

That's my tendency, even at home, because coffee gets old fast after
brewing, even in an unheated thermos, and I hate throwing it away.
But I've found the metering of water through the filter as done by a
drip coffeemaker somehow always tastes better. Same with gold
filters. They don't provide the flow rate of paper through the
grounds. It's all personal taste, and I'm always looking for
coffeemaker that will make a good single *big* cup of coffee at a
time. Might try one of those Larry recommended, but use the paper
filter.

--Vic

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
At the rated 1000 watts that works out to about 11 AH.

1000W@12V takes towards 90A. You'll need a good inverter for this to work.


Markus

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:12:22 +0100, Markus Baertschi
wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
At the rated 1000 watts that works out to about 11 AH.

1000W@12V takes towards 90A. You'll need a good inverter for this to work.


Markus

Errr...that would be a 1000W or a 1500W inverter, I assume?

Brian W

Installed a Prosine 3.0 last Fall. That big enough? :-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Brian Whatcott" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:12:22 +0100, Markus Baertschi
wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
At the rated 1000 watts that works out to about 11 AH.

1000W@12V takes towards 90A. You'll need a good inverter for this to work.


Markus

Errr...that would be a 1000W or a 1500W inverter, I assume?

Brian W

Paul Cassel wrote in news:
:

Do you expect to run this thing while underway on a sailboat?

The 1.8 cup B&D draws 1.5KW, I think, for 90 seconds. That cup of coffee
drains 2.7AH off the house batteries....hardly anything. It only runs for
90 seconds per cup and there's no wasted cups!

50AH makes 18 cups, enough to drown most any coffee hound....(c;

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
:

Being addicted to drip coffee, I have been looking for a good coffee
maker with a thermal carafe that would fit in the galley without
taking up much space and not end up on the deck.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-D.../dp/B00006IUVD

My fav - $17.

Makes 1.8 cup in a travel mug in about 90 seconds.
Uses NO FILTER PAPER. Has a permanent gold-plated screen that washes
easily. No coffee filters to stink up the place. Just dump the grounds
overboard after a couple of cups. The filter recycles!

You can buy extra mugs to make as many "pots" as you need from Black and
Decker cheap.

No 10 cups of sloshing coffee JUST WAITING TO CRASH in a rogue wave. The
1.8 cup mug FITS IN ANY GIMBAL DRINK HOLDER and is spill-proof because it
has a closing cap. Open, drink, close, leave in drink holder.

6x6x10" uses LOTS LESS space than any POT brewer. You always get the very
freshest cup when you make them as you drink them.....

1.2KW for 90 seconds with NO WASTE COFFEE leftovers is much easier on Amp-
Hour drains from the house batteries.

Did I mention the whole boat doesn't have to smell like the last watch's
COFFEE FILTER!....(C;