The stove in Shoal Waters was, for many years, a single burner screwed into a Camping Gaz cylinder. The burner could be replaced by a radiant heater to heat the cabin when cold.
The stove can be seen in the above photo, the cylinder housed in a well between two lockers on the port side of the cabin as is traditional.
To use the radiant heater the stove part was unscrewed, the cylinder moved to sit on the cabin floor between the lockers and the centreboard case and held in place with a bungee. The heater was then screwed onto the cylinder.
Now, none of these parts were on Shoal Waters when purchased and I’m not going to replace the stove with an exact replacement. Instead I’m going to use a burner that takes the modern 200g canisters since this will allow me to store the spares outside of the cabin. However, the space available for such a burner is quite small and the size I use for camping is too large.
Not to worry, a quick internet search found a much smaller unit.
The difference between this and the larger, more common variant, is that there is no lever mechanism to pull the canister into place. Instead it is held in place by a magnet.
Now, my intention is to make a box to hold the stove that is just a little bit deeper than the stove plus canister, so that the canister cannot move away from the magnet which might happen in a bumpy sea.
The stove is also a bit wider that the space that held the old gas cylinder and that will mean rearranging the lockers slightly.
The stove plus canister is also a bit deeper that the locker, as you can see here.
However, the gas cylinder locker is a simple box screwed to the side wall, so making it wider and deeper will not be too much of a chore. The hardest part will be removing the lid of the locker forward of the burner to cut a section off to make space for the wider burner box.
This should be a fairly small task.
Famous last words.
Time for a cup of tea.