Yes in the U.S. you'd just have to find the coal wink wink.

An article not a book but I take your point.

Thanks - - oh, that Tom.

@@tom_olofsson Fee Fie Foe Fum I Smell The Blood Of Little Tom Thumb

Cheers! Time I made another vid.

You couldn't make it up! Thanks Tom

Thanks mate. Keep listening - another vid blog coming your way soon!

Thanks Joseph. Good to have you aboard.

I made my decision to but the Fatsco coal/ wood burner TinyTot stove. I purchased stainless stove pipe & fittings from Seattle Marine, online and from Fatsco bought the stove top accessory pot or pan platform..its a beautiful little workhorse.

@@canyonhaverfield2201 Beautiful choice, the Fatsco double hob with fiddle rail is gorgeous, and I seriously thought about getting one, but I love my Pet Stove as is. The equally beautiful Tiny Tot might give longer burn times, but for me, compact size was the deciding factor, and nothing beats the Pet Stove for being compact. These aren't as well known as other stoves, but for quality, capability, compactness and value for money, nothing comes close to Fatsco Stoves!

Glad you enjoyed it Nick. Tom

You won't be sorry!

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Thanks Tom for your kind remarks. Glad you enjoyed it. Tom

Where do you get a heater like that Tom?

Thanks Nomad Tim. Tom

I was just smiling at that quote then I scrolled down read your comment :)

The quote was "sort out your life" not sort out your live. One letter can change the way it reads & makes sense of what is rubbish!

@Agent J It's called proof reading fuckwit, proof reading.Now go away & troll someone else,moron!

Agent J did you just call someone out for the wrong word and then do the same thing? I can’t tell if you’re trying to be ironic or don’t know the difference between to and too...

@@TCGE08 Have a wonderful wonderfilled day. Its always better to say something nice than to snipe away with rubbish.

By his logic, your life is sorted then. Congrats!

Good man. If you wait until the end of August, I'll be back in the office and my online book shop will be open. You can then request a personalised message with your books.

Thanks a lot mate. Tom

Great! You need to talk to Colin Frake who makes my Faversham stove.

Thanks Ralph! Tom

All my old boats had those magic deck fittings with the water trough. You don't seem to see them any more. You are right about the ash, but now that I've graduated to a re-chargeable on-board vacuum cleaner, (Dyson no less!) the dust holds no horrors. I used to be a dab hand with the soft brush and the dustpan.

:-)

Not really.

Good man! Keep warm T

Hi Brien from the New Forest, UK. My favourite ride? That's a tricky one. I really enjoyed the old Yam FJ1200 for the speed and downright grunt. I reckon it would have eaten the current 1200RT Beemer for breakfast but the German has the comfort I now crave. Tom

Yea - we only open the front in harbour! At sea, it's a top loader so no probs with flying coal, luckily.

Hi Simon. Fancy you having those old pull-outs. They were a lot of fun to write. I think I have them somewhere in my shed. I must dredge them out and re-read them. Good to hear the tides are still flowing. Up here in the Baltic, it's a bit hit and miss on the currents. They always seem to be against me! Cheers Tom

They are a great comfort. My daughter, who's been brought up with them, now has a charcoal-burning one on her 28ft 1909 gaff yawl and she even put a tiny one on her last boat which was only 21ft. Sure you can't squeeze a small one in somewhere? Forward saloon bulkhead - charcoal? Tom

I think I will, Tom. This is my long-standing dream. My friend had once a stove on his old 33 ft boat. It provided incredible comfort during cold seasons. I'm sure to squeeze it somewhere! :) Valentine

Good man! Best of luck with the installation.

Tom Cunliffe - Yachts and Yarns It went in a treat and even here in Sweden it’s wonderful and warm aboard my beautiful boat

I think these are the latter. We call 'em ''Koks'' here in germany, much heavier than the 'barbecue coals' and much longer burning time of course.

👍🏼🤣 I hear you! 😁

Thanks Marc. Where do you think I should be? In the pulpit like my Grandad? Tom

@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns I hope for my own sake that you will stay here though we will simply have to acknowledge that you are miscategorized among the drivel.

They really come into their own when it's wet and drizzly outside and you are wanting to dry your streaming clothes.

That's just decadent ! And where is the sauna ?

Hi Jerry I like the sound of the Dickinsons. If it burns anything liquid bar water, it'll be the stove for me when I finally give up on chucking the ashes over the side. I've been served vodka in old Leningrad that would have kept us warm on many a frowzy night! Windy up here too. Making a pass for Finland today. Tom

America has anthracite coal in Pennsylvania, the very best coal to burn. No smell, no smoke, little ash. can be bought in bags and shipped yo you.

Coal? I can get good-quality lump charcoal, but it's expensive. But here in the US it's nigh-impossible to get heating coal retail, ...especially good hard Anthracite furnace coal.

If you're really naughty santa will bring you some real coal.

In the USA , it’s Easy to Aquire Coal, Many Places will sell it Fairly inexpensive ,From Southern Ohio,and West Virginia, on the Southern Most Bend of the Ohio River ,Near South Point Ohio, and Huntington WV. ( 98% of the Power Companies use Coal Fired Generators in that region ).... Looking Forward.. Michael

It's called "Coalite" Tom. 🔥 😊 👍🏼

I think it's called "coaking coal", burns slowly, but very hot with almost no ashes.

We certainly do Jorgen. Constance is still in Augustenborg and we can't wait to join her again. Tom

I had to google a 'cubic grizzly'. What a smashing little stove and a brilliant answer to keeping warm. What do you do about the chimney outlet? Tom

@@TomCunliffeYachtsandYarns Hi Tom The Cubic-mini Grizzly has a three-inch flue. We came to the conclusion that none of the UK's standard double wall flue systems are suitable. If we went with Dinak, for example, not only would it be very large in outside diameter (using one-inch rock-wool for insulation) but it would take nine pieces (Grizzly, boiler adapter, single wall tube, single to double wall adapter, double wall tube, elbow, double-wall adjustable tube, elbow, double-wall adjustable tube, double-wall to single wall adapter, Dickinson deck fitting) and would need locking straps at every junction. So... thinking outside the box... it seemed to us that all we had here was 4 foot of 3 in diameter stainless tubing, with two bends, swaged at the Grizzly end and expanded at the Dickinson end. We thought that lots of exhaust manufacturers and pipe benders should be able to fabricate that for us. But we were wrong. Three-inches is just too big for their tooling. In the end I had the flue made out of 2mm thick, 3in diameter, 316 stainless. It required two 33 degree bends on a 500mm bend radius. I only found one company in the UK that had the tooling off-the-shelf to do this (tubecraft.co.uk). We recommend them highly. We didn't swage the ends (again nobody could do it) but used crimping and sleeving because we need it to be able to take up the expansion as it gets hot. We used 10mm pyrogel blanket for insulation (www.aerogel.com/products-and-solutions/pyrogel-xte/) and 4in diameter stainless steel Polylock tubing for cladding (www.flexiducting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PolyLock_Data.pdf). It keeps the flue from getting too bulky and works well. The flue is very strong yet easy to take apart to clean. We used a standard Dickinson stove fitting through the deck (on a 2-inch high built-up fibreglass plinth) and custom-fabricated pyrogel-insulated flue pipes above the deck with a Dickinson H-fitting at the top. This nestles beside our "granny bars" at the mast and is rock solid and well away from all running rigging. Throughout we stuck to Hetas guidelines for canal boats for the hearth and insulation (calcium silicate insulation board, cement board, air gaps, tiles, etc) which we faced with 2-mm stainless steel sheet fabricated by a guy who makes commercial kitchen equipment in Torquay. Overall, it cost £3,500 although most of the work I did myself. The Cubic-mini Grizzly plus spares and a roaster amounted to only about £750 of that. We thought we had massively over-engineered it, until we lit it up and found that its claim to put out over 4kw was no exaggeration. Now, a couple of years later and after much use, we are absolutely delighted with it. It burns cleanly (virtually no smoke except when starting up), no tar in the flue, brilliant dehumidifier, and cooks amazingly well. It’s such a cheery presence on the boat that our only regret is that we haven’t had more cold weather in which to use it! Certainly makes you think harder about high-latitude adventure. PS I picked up this question via Google in which you replied to my wife's note (on a youTube video perhaps?) asking about how we fitted the Cubic Mini in our Bowman 40. Then - of course - I couldn't find where to get back to you on Google messaging or whatever it was. So I sent you an email via your web site... and promptly found where to reply to you here. If you reply to that email I can send pictures.

Many thanks Geoffrey for that comprehensive reply. I'm sure people will find it really useful. Tom

I'll have a think about that and maybe do a relatively technical one about the stove when I'm back on board this summer.

Thanks! I have done a bit of TV work in my time and would love to do more, but as they haven't asked me I enjoy making these small vids. Really pleased when folks like them. Tom

Glad you agree Robert.

Sounds a good solution Andy to the blown air heaters. Thanks for sharing. Tom