We have been living aboard our sail vessel for five years. Our primary heat source is a Dickinson Pacific cook stove. The stove is an old one and admittedly I fought with it for about a year until I learned how to properly maintain it. They need to be cleaned on a regular basis, this is a messy job though not too time consuming. When the stove is not burning right it is a nasty sooty mess (on the outside of the boat). Now that I''ve learned to clean the stove and keep the flame burning above the can, I have been happy with it. Would I buy another one? Probably not, unless money was an issue, then I would go with the Dickinson as a reasonable, economical, alternative. I believe the Newport is a bulhead mounted unit, however, my experience with these as proven to me that the above considerations apply as well.