Patrick Maun wrote: > Hey all, > > also a big Trangia fan (love the no-stick pans). I found a great > source for fuel through West Marine. Seems that the yachting crowd > uses alcohol stoves so several companies have mixtures formulated for > them. I've been using a brand called Soot-Free Stove Fuel and it > really is. Not one bit of soot since I've been using it. > > -Patrick > > The reason for this is that alcohol, being water soluble, is the only liquid fuel that can be put out by water. Since most boats have lots of water available when in use it is the safest liquid fuel for the stoves in a boat. Mike, former power boater and graduate of the Power Squadron safety class. (I was into safety then, too!) -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 07 2000 - 10:50:19 PST
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