New Force 10 stove installed and cooked beef stew! - 2009

San Diego 3\29\2009 at Marina Cortez

 When we bought our boat it had CNG gas stove. Because we will be cursing Mexico and in Mexico they do not have CNG gas readily amiable we decide to switch to propane.

This project was going to wait a while. Well things can change fast. A dock mate saw our stove which was like new condition. He wanted to buy it. Soooo we sold it! We wanted a Force 10. From our Catalina 30 days when we had an alcohol stove the stove became important. So we bought a Force 10 stove.

We bought a new two burner Force 10 stove and had to make new gimbals for it. Luckily a friend, Brigg, had some teak and mad us the gimbals. He also helped me install it. I then had to make some teak blocks for the latches so it did not rock at the dock.

It was a bit of work but we love it.

The white in the pictures is just protective covering.

One day before the stove was officially installed we were out motoring. The stove was just sitting in the cutout. A big powerboat went screaming by with a huge wake and sent to stove flying. Did not hurt the stove but busted a handle off one the galley's draws and scratched the louvered door under the sink, so beware of flying stoves.
You can get a three burner Force 10 stove in there but you loose the top counter top and need to make some side modifications to the wood slides.

We are currently running it off a propane bottle hanging off the stern. The propane lock is yet another project.

 Our favorite dish is beef stew in the pressure cooker. As you can see I am quite proud of it. Debbie is teaching me how to cook. I want to create corn bread next. Gotta use that oven!
It has one large burner and one smaller. We do th crock pot on the larger burner, here we moved it over to cool it.
The burners light with a turn of knob like the home stove.