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I too like my non-pressured Origo 3000 2 burner stove.  I find it heats cabin with one burner while cooking with another...Kristin, you could secure in the sink, however, I just had a vision of your alcohol slopping out down the drain...and if it's on fire, might be a tad of a pulse-quickener when you least need it?!

If you are restriced by space, (not sure if you have the area I do for stove on stbd. side) I would recommend a single burner of some safe sort, the alcohol ones are good as all contained, no tank, and no priming, and just watch the flame the first few times you use it to get used to what the flame looks like.  I have never had a problem seeing the flame.  YOu can also hear the flame, so know when it's lit.  Easy to light too, no whoossh and loss of eyebrows.

If it's this...you do not want to use it inside the boat, as it's a very bad thing! ;-)  I mean that because the flammable fuel (the propane) is not vented to the outside, but could sink to bilge and go boom.
You could use over the stern rail in cockpit, where I have my barbeque.

I am not a lover of propane at all, but I know some of the fellas have done ingenious venting of the little bottles.  (I beileve there is something you can set up.

Wow, you lucked out too, Adrian!

I am using the 3M #4000 UV (I believe that's the #)  it's removeable, but UV resistant, about twice the cost of what the other brands are, but so far seems ok, and I did it last summer....

I used a dental pick to remove the old stuff, then a bit of acetone to clean up nice - there's not core there, solid fibreglass, thank heavens,  so it goes quite quickly, as you do not have "Stefan D deck horror" lurking under that innocent white deck! ;D

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WOW!!! Way to go!

Shall we bold out the name column?!

Hi Guys: Re: Cody comment about tacking storm sail:

What I would like to do (in a perfect world) is have the roller furling stay forward of the wire stay - with the wire stay being a heavy-duty clip on tack, and obviously being clipped to the toerail (or mast) while using furling.  Then, when I storm came up, I would drop the furled sail, (or leave it furled if near home) clip in the "inner forestay", and then put up my storm sail (or 90% reefable)  Does that make sense, or am I dreamin'?!
Yes, I realize I'd have to feed my luff-tape headsail back in at a calmer time...but I would likely leave it down while offshore in what may be a crappy day/week, so I would then just put up my 110 once lighter airs came back.(and learn to use the cruising chute, ha ha!)  And then once it got really calm, feed r.furl genny back in and start all over?!

Bill, I think the tri would handle twin headsails better than our boats...not sure I would want to twin them....am feeling kinda chicken about them pulling the mast down?  Am I being a baby?

Suggestions?

By the way, our Can$ is really strong compared to the US....so practically anything is a good buy for us Canadians right now.

Hmm,  I can't make out the little pictures on the article I found, and I can see it would be tough for a bigger mast, and I see the trouble one could get in!

Peter, you say:

"clip this at the pointed end to the back stay, the other side of the point to your mainsheet and use a winch to pull or to release"

So, the pointy end (!)  goes on the backstay (where exactly?!) And then a sheet to pointy end as well..and then pull?

I see many other methods use a pole/boom, etc to pivot the whole thing...but I like Peter's idea.  Peter, I think you stepped yours in both the water and on land? 

(superb mast step, Peter, I am very envious of your metal-making ability and tools!)

I am fortunate I only had one small "wet" area...below/around the port bow stanchion, the aft end of it is into cored deck. 

If you only have a little bit (but sounds like you don't) then the injection method is good...the key to keeping a small area small is to dry it out well before injecting....I dried mine out for a week with heat below it and a container over top to ensure no water nor condensation got in.    I dug out the wet stuff with a dental pick...like I said, I was lucky...

We have rain for weeks at a time here, 27 days straight last month, so the key here is to keep the boat as dry as reasonably possible if not using her, many blue tarps in marinas here full time.

Also, if you can, check your boat weekly for any water drips or leaks, find the source, (sometimes tough) and then fix that source, then make sure it stays fixed.

Here's what can happen with water:  My mast has skookum new inner wiring, (done by old owner just before I bought her in 2004) but where the wires came into the boat, water was sneakly running above the mast support beam, along the wiring for the head, and along the liner ledge under the chainplates, and down the bulkhead base, and ended up both under the teak & holly sole skin as well as under the sole liner to rest on top of the holding tank....would then slosh around when heeled inside and outside the liner! 
I found it by my curious nature: why was water there and where was it coming from.  I would mop it up daily, and after only a few months of ownership I figured it out...So, imagine what that water would do if left unchecked for years.....Í am of the belief that no, our boats should not leak, and if it does, I will find it! ;-)

Ok, sorry to always talk so much about  myself and my boat! ;-)

Very interesting...saying baby stay and with accompanying adjuster, and is a useable forestay?!  Sounds like it would clip right to a second hole at stemhead, foregoeing the need for a heavy duty backing....however, not really moving CE aft...but does allow for emergencies, and for using hank ons....That's what I'll try, in heavy winds while still close to home first...drop the furled sail and put up my 90% reefable blade...

And yes, Christian, there is something to be said for having a simple rig and being able to quickly tack (or did I gybe?! ;-)  and get the heck out of Dodge when one needs too...and considering my boat had already done a 360, and then decided to heave to while I was reefing at the same time the ferry came around the corner made for some instinctive manuevers that I did not know I had...keep her moving and not towards the rocky shore 100 ft away...and by the way, she'll sail well enough with the headsail backed to save both her and yours truly's frightened rear end!  A headsail-driven boat is a good thing, for me anyways!
(By the way, it was my first overnight trip on her, and every minute was a new experience!)