OK, on land…

The stove works! Last night 11 pm we had our first fire in the Shipmate stove. Seems the newly-cast firebricks didn’t break and we’re still here so the boat didn’t burn down 🙂

Of course, all the paraffin-based lube/sealant we’d put on the stove to keep it from rusting slowly “smoked” off and the boat smelled like way too many candles burning. Yuck. We had to keep a couple port holes open to clear that paraffin smoke once it started.

With Brenda feeding stovebox periodically all night, we had a fire until about 5:00 am when we ran out of wood…and Brenda didn’t feel like going out into the wet, cold morning to get more scraps of hardwood from our scrap-wood pile.