On Jan 13, 10:59*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:47:15 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch



wrote:
Daughter: *So dad, what do you do about coffee on your sailign trips.
Me: *I make a big thermos.
Daughter: *What about when it gets cold.
Me: *It's still coffee.
Daughter: *Yuk, cold coffee, why not make some hot coffee.
Me: *I took out the stove cuz I think stoves aboard small sailboats
are dangerous, so we run out, then I have coffee beans.
Daughter: *What? *You crush them to make cold coffee?
Me: *No, I eat em, they taste good.
Daughter: *Thats disgusting, forget it.

My point? *Are you really going to put off sailing because you cannot
get a hot meal every time you want it? *Are you really going to put it
off because you might be a bit cold and you have to wear a parka?
I think sailing food consists of Pop Tarts for breakfast because you
can hold one while steering.
Lunch should be bread with peanut butter
Dinner, more bread and peanut butter.
Gatoraide
Coffee beans.
apples
What else do you need? *No complications with an icebox, no need for a
stove, very simple.

Crank up the diesel and heat stuff up on the manifold (old trucker
trick)

Aren't there MREs that heat themselves? I may break down and buy a
magma grill/stove that hangs on the stern rail.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:05 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Aren't there MREs that heat themselves? I may break down and buy a
magma grill/stove that hangs on the stern rail.

Difficult to use underway except in the calmest conditions. Take a
look at one of these:

http://www.forespar.com/onlineCatalog/2009/Sailboat/sailing_miniGalley2009.shtml

There are a number of mounting options, including a rail mount.

More info he

http://www.practical-sailor.com/marine/Compact-Galley-Stoves.html

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:05 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Aren't there MREs that heat themselves? I may break down and buy a
magma grill/stove that hangs on the stern rail.

Difficult to use underway except in the calmest conditions. Take a
look at one of these:

http://www.forespar.com/onlineCatalog/2009/Sailboat/sailing_miniGalley2009.shtml

There are a number of mounting options, including a rail mount.

More info he

http://www.practical-sailor.com/marine/Compact-Galley-Stoves.html




If froggy used any of those sorts of devices, he'd either set his boat,
his sails or himself on fire, and then the railing would break off,
taking the heating unit to the bottom.

All the cheap skates aren't on hockey players.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:05 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Crank up the diesel and heat stuff up on the manifold (old trucker
trick)

Yes heat stuff on the outside of the water cooled manifold. If you
have raw water cooling, with a 140 F thermostat you will barely be
able to keep coffee hot. Truck engines work hard and have hot air
cooled manifolds. [At full power the headers on my race car glow
yellow hot]. You could cook with that. You would need plumbing and a
custom stove, but you could cook with 220 F glycol.

Casady

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:05 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

I may break down and buy a
magma grill/stove that hangs on the stern rail.

You have a stern rail? Don't even hesitate.

Casady