![]() ![]() ![]() Far less frightening when you can run away! By the way dry powder is awful to clean up. In the end I took the stove off the boat and experimented with it in the backyard. ![]() This was my first experience with a full size cruising boat. I have sailed for decades but on dinghies and light weight day sailers. I tell this story in the interest of preventing others from making the same mistake. Quite a fright for me but very amusing for the people fishing on the jetty I was tied up to. I say a few as the heat from the ex-fire relit itself a couple of times. In the end I had to give it a few bursts with a dry chemical extinguisher to put it out. I put the fire blanket on it but the convection current was strong enough to draw air in from underneath. Thinking about my mistake it is now obvious that the vapour is heavier than air and must have gathered in and around the stove not unlike re-fuelling a petrol tank(you guys would call it a gas tank). I put the metho away, screwed the cap back on the tank, lit it up and nearly burnt the boat down. I filled it's tank up being very careful to not spill any(I used a funnel). I have a methylated spirit stove on my boat. A word of caution about liquid fuel stoves. ![]()
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