Stove, Propane Tanks, BBQ

We have a stove, it is stainless steel, called a Shipmate which is original to the boat (from 1976, they are out of business Shipmate, their stove works good many years later). It took us a couple months to get things situated, propane working and what not. Now that it is working we love it! It has 2 burners, and small oven. The metal around the knobs are a bit sharp and the oven door is on a spring so it shuts really hard. We have become proficient in cooking 2 burner dinners and I just now made biscuits in the oven, it worked great! So excited to cook more in the oven.

We also have a BBQ, Magma all stainless steel too. Operated by propane too, we are using a Coleman 1lb currently, but there is option to plug into braced tanks on stern. At first it took some time to get used to it, a little small and located off our stern, so if something fell from off side it falls in water. After cooking several times on it, we started liking this new BBQ. Keeps the heat out of cabin on hot days and gives meat the BBQ taste.

The propane tanks, there are two, hubby mounted to stern railing since they originally were in an old life sling cover that was delapitated and did not have a locker of any sort. We weighed the options of purchasing a locker for over $500 or making something to hold them, but we decided since they are aluminum we will just get the stainless brackets and mount directly to rail, then cover with canvas. We did add a rope with clip to each tank so when we take them out of brace for refilling they are secured to rail should something happen when realesing them from brackets. These 6lb aluminum tanks hold 1.5 gallons of propane. After we made sure they were completely full, we went almost one month on one of them. One just recently emptied and we found a refill station within walking distance. Which helps out tremendously since our car isn't working too good at this time. Next on project list is for hubby to (fix car so we can get things to finish projects) make regulator brace since it is not mounted to anything, and for me to make propane covers. Never ending projects!