Back in The Box


While we’re noting changes, my galley box is updated. I was prompted by, I won’t say whom, a fellow sailer who nearly turned his double ender into a Viking funeral pyre! Yep. He scorched his floor boards while cooking another five course meal. Apparently a three foot diameter iron skillet can generate and reflect enough heat to warrant a fire extinguisher.

As they say, the best experience is someone else’s. So, I screwed copper to the back of my box and added stainless to the bottom making a safer windscreen. Plastic laminate was glued to the removable shelf. A small wooden box holds utensils. Raised rubber disc tile added to the exterior top and bottom protects surfaces from getting scratched and sliding about. Lastly, a new butane stove replaces the old leaking one. Hopefully we’ve avoided more uncontrolled pyrotechnics. Just doing our part.

4 thoughts on “Back in The Box

    1. Hey there Bruce! I generally store the box to port sticking out forward from under the thwart. Capsize?! My mainsheet runs not through a cam cleat, but is snubbed (not held fast) under the horn of a cleat on the center case tail so hopefully I never experience that degree of dunking. The boat can get wet as you know, but the box is tied in. If dishes get wet, so be it. The stove is in a heavy plastic bag too. Why? 7+ years of use in the damp bilge does add up. A $13 stove then is now $22. Same stove. Also, the box doubles as my truck camping galley. Fits my needs and keeps otherwise scattered kitchen together.

      Enjoyed your latest write up by the way. Nice sketches and layout!

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