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.......................................................--- Backup/Auxiliary Stove ---
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When we bought the Endeavour we asked the owner to light the stove for us. It lit, but barely burned or burned way too hot. We didn't have any idea how old the supply lines were and if the whole system was safe or not.
We had the stove, next picture, that we use on the Mac....
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...as we had just finished a 400+ mile trip with her. We decided to use that stove when we move the boat from Ft. Myers Beach to Charlotte Harbor Boat Storage off of Charlotte Harbor right after we had bought her.
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When we got back to the boat in the spring of 2012 we took the stove back with us and used the stove again daily as we worked on the galley installing the new fridge and other galley mods. With those done I replace the supply line from the regulator to the Endeavour's stove and also the regulator and the line from the bottle to the regulator. After making sure that the shutoff solenoid was working properly we finally retired the camp stove and started using the ship's stove.
We decided that even with the ship's stove working on future trips we will take the 2 burner with us just in case we ran out of propane or had a problem with the ship's stove. Next I'll show how the simple mount was made to make the 2 burner work on top of the main stove.
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The arrow points to the disposable bottles that we keep out in the cockpit fridge when not in use. That compartment is isolated from the rest of the boat and has a bottom drain.
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The fixture to hold the stove is pretty simple and just made up of a piece of plywood and ...
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.... a couple pieces of lumber for the side pieces and one other transverse piece.
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The arms have a screw at the bottom, right arrow, that keeps this fixture from sliding off the front of the stove. The top arrow points to another screw that secures the stove to the fixture.
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Here you can see how the bottom screws are located so that they are just behind the bar at the front of the stove. The plywood at the back side is against the wood rail there. Place the screw so that this just snaps into place and bends the front bar slightly.
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The arrow points to how the bottom screws are up against the bar and ...
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... you can see that the plywood is wedged in on the back side. The stove and the plywood that it is attached to slides up against the front screw and snaps down inside the plywood at the back. You could also put the swivel thumb latches on the back side, but we had no problems with the stove staying in place on the initial 70 trip, but we also were not in any heavy weather. In heavy weather I'd probably pop the stove out and store it some place except when it was needed.
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The head of the front screw is high enough that the white plywood slides in under it.
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The top arrow points to the regulator that the bottle screws into and that screws into the right side of the stove.
Here is the stove in the MacGregor in use....
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...and ....
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...on top of the storage unit in the MacGregor out of the way.
We might never need it on the Endeavour but since it is so compact we will take it. These stoves sold for under $30 at Walmart and we have 3 of them as we don't know if they will be available in the future and they fit the Mac so much better than anything else we've seen.
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