>Besides, I'm not too keen in storing and carrying around a load of >potentially flammable charcoal. I'll save that for the backyard cooking. >Remember the Maine! Geez, you guys are tough! I guess I deserved that because I said "no propane". What I meant was no propane system. Not that there is anything wrong with a properly installed propane system, I just don't have one. We do have propane for the grill on deck. I also would not want to carry around charcoal and starting fluid. >I see that the Political Correctness Aquatic Police is alive and well. > >Let's do away with gensets, air conditioners, gasoline motors in our >dinghies, and any or all modern wasteful entrapments! The noise and vibration of MY generator bothers ME. I would never attempt to regulate what equipment you have on your boat and how you use it. I have all of the above, and I use them. I am not offended by another boat in the same anchorage running a generator, air conditioner, or dinghy. Andy Andy & Linda Woods Grand Folly 1970 Grand Banks 36 Classic Georgetown, MD. ajwoods@worldnet.att.net

on 5/7/00 10:21 PM, Andrew Woods at ajwoods@worldnet.att.net wrote: > snip...I also would not > want to carry around charcoal and starting fluid...snip I understand the starting fluid, but why would one not want to carry charcoal? Is that if it gets wet, it generates heat (like baled hay)? Thanks. -- HNick&Sherri&SmallWonder (Camano Troll) HYY, Galesville, MD

Charcoal, if wet and confined (like packaged for individual use in paper bags and piled in a lazerette that gets wet) gas off and have been know to spontaneously combust. ------------------------------- Rick the Mouseherder - nh2f Westsail 32 Xapic Annapolis, MD A small boat and a suitcase full of money beat a 40-footer tied to the Bank every time. Creative graphic solutions in vinyl for your boat lettering & designs http://www.mouseherder.com Visit the Xapic Homepage at: http://www.abs.net/~nh2f The Westsail Owners Assn. : http://www.erols.com/woax

hnmorgan@mindspring.com writes: >I understand the starting fluid, but why would one not want to carry >charcoal? Is that if it gets wet, it generates heat (like baled hay)? So I've been told. Like the old gunslingers said: Keep your powder dry!