[davekrista]

Most of you know, we just bought our 1st sailboat and while going through and cleaning it up some, we found this.

Looks like a coffee pot or something to me. Can someone tell me exactly what it is and how to "use" it? Also how to clean it up real nice.

Thanks.
Krista

 

[capt vimes]

Thats a stove with a gimbal...
You shove a camping cooker underneath your pot and light it... The gimbal takes care that it is always in an upright position... Probably made from aluminium, which you can sand of or clean with something like cif and such stuff...

 

[Sal Paradise]

I thought it was the mythical combination coffee pot /urinal!

 

[Siamese]

I have one of those too. Considering I thought the hinged thing on the top was a chin strap, I'm probably using mine all wrong.

 

[Faster]

Probably meant to have a can of 'sterno' in the lower portion. Is the coffee pot 'stuck' to the burner holder?

 

[davekrista]

Probably meant to have a can of 'sterno' in the lower portion. Is the coffee pot 'stuck' to the burner holder?

No the coffee pot does come out.. We were thinking sterno on the bottom but we weren't positive... Its kind of nasty and needs to be cleaned up really good. Not sure what is safe to use for something that will have food/beverage on/in it.

 

[gamayun]

That's ingenious. Put in a new percolator and an MSR Pocket Rocket Stove, and you'll be praising the high seas. It could even be mounted in the cockpit so you never had to leave the tiller.

 

[Puddin'_Tain]

It's a Bremer Sea Swing. You can either use them with a can of Sterno or mount a small spirit stove underneath. See HERE.