The stove on Tara had a burner pack it in last year so I took it
upon myself to fix it. I took the parts home to Vancouver and over the course
of a year completely ignored them. I tried to get it all working again and put
the stove in the boat and lit it up … yeah … both burners working fine … then
boom …
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| We missed the photo op so .. use your imagination |
about a ½ cubic meter fireball came out of the stove. I calmly turned
off the burners, yelled to Ross to turn off the gas at the bottle while I
turned off the gas at the stove.
The next couple of minutes were filled with some acrid smoke
as the insulation on the stove burned away … doop-dee-doo while I had to
unscrew the pieces I had assembled to get to it. Suffice it to say that work
was over.
We were stoveless for a couple of days until we got to
Lefkas where I knew there were stove parts. I took the pieces in and he laughed
… probably 400Euros to fix because the aluminum/stainless screws had seized,
the diffuser was not flat, the gas pipes had leaks.
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| Our new safe stove |
At that moment I made the command decision (after calling
Marina for moral support) to buy a new stove, unceremoniously dropping the
old one off at the dumpster. The only problem was that the new stove (exact
stove as we had before) had a different propane connection … so we needed to
wait for 2 days to have that shipped from Athens. Like I always say … sometimes
it is best just to open up your wallet.
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