"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or input? I can't really see
anything wrong with it as long as it is stored properly and obviously
operated in the open,

That's where I see a big problem - operating it in the open. This usually
involves putting the thing high up where it broadcasts noise to everybody
within half a mile. Just because you want to run a coffeemaker?

Why not use a quite cookstove and spare all concerned the noise in an
anchorage where quiet it called for? Or do you wish to be viewed as just
another inconsiderate cheapskate asshole who ruins cruising for everybody
else?

Wilbur Hubbard

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or input? I can't really
see anything wrong with it as long as it is stored properly and
obviously operated in the open,

That's where I see a big problem - operating it in the open. This
usually involves putting the thing high up where it broadcasts noise
to everybody within half a mile. Just because you want to run a
coffeemaker?

Why not use a quite cookstove and spare all concerned the noise in an
anchorage where quiet it called for? Or do you wish to be viewed as
just another inconsiderate cheapskate asshole who ruins cruising for
everybody else?

Wilbur Hubbard

Agreed. In forty-odd years of racing and cruising I have never seen coffee
made in an electric percolator. O.K., for convenience we use instant coffee,
but there must be lots of ways to make real coffee without a percolator.
Those Italian aluminum percs you sit on the stove top would surely make a
good cuppa?

Dennis.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or input? I can't really
see anything wrong with it as long as it is stored properly and
obviously operated in the open,

That's where I see a big problem - operating it in the open. This
usually involves putting the thing high up where it broadcasts noise
to everybody within half a mile. Just because you want to run a
coffeemaker?

Why not use a quite cookstove and spare all concerned the noise in an
anchorage where quiet it called for? Or do you wish to be viewed as
just another inconsiderate cheapskate asshole who ruins cruising for
everybody else?

Wilbur Hubbard

Agreed. In forty-odd years of racing and cruising I have never seen coffee
made in an electric percolator. O.K., for convenience we use instant
coffee,
but there must be lots of ways to make real coffee without a percolator.
Those Italian aluminum percs you sit on the stove top would surely make a
good cuppa?

Dennis.


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If you aren't using something like these you ain't drinking coffee, IMHO!
They make fine espresso on your typical quiet boat stove.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:13:57 GMT, "Dennis Pogson"
wrote:



Agreed. In forty-odd years of racing and cruising I have never seen coffee
made in an electric percolator. O.K., for convenience we use instant coffee,
but there must be lots of ways to make real coffee without a percolator.
Those Italian aluminum percs you sit on the stove top would surely make a
good cuppa?

Dennis.


Hi Dennis,
I would advise against the aluminium ones as they seem to grow
'nodules" inside the bottom water reservoir after a time.

Their are many stainless steel ones on the market that will last
longer and not eventually develop a 'taste' as the aluminium ones seem
to do after a while..

Whatever type you get, they are definitely better than dripolater ones
and be sure to buy at least one spare rubber seal when you purchase
the unit.

cheers
Peter