The stone is then placed in the cooker at the bottom of a hole, and the pot placed on top of it, the lid is clamped shut, and the cooker may be for¬ gotten for hours, until the food is to be eaten. A complete schedule of times and temperatures is furnished with each cooker, applying to all manner of foods. Even bread may be baked. The most convenient way to use the apparatus is to do all the cooking in the cool of the morning, or, if on a long coastwise cruise, when weather permits. The cook¬ ing for noon and evening meals can be done on the breakfast fire with a three-hole cooker, because divided saucepans may be obtained which fit three in a hole. Some dishes require a stone top and bottom, but most can be cooked with one stone. One of the many advantages of doing much of the cook¬ ing with one morning fire is that the cabin of a small boat is thus not superheated by the time the crew want to turn in. APPENDIX 125 The question will be asked, where do you carry a three-foot box in the galley of a small cruiser? Aboard Tinker, which is 28 ft. overall, a two-hole cooker is carried in the cockpit against the forward bulkhead on the starboard side, lashed securely to an awning stanchion. It is entirely out of the way, and apparently the insulation is sufficient for it to function properly even in the bracing air of Maine waters. Every new boat which is designed should have a space in the galley built in for a fireless cooker. A hinged dressed top could be installed above it. If space is limited a one-hole cooker is better than none at all. Without the legs with which most of them are provided for kitchen use ashore (the legs can be removed with a screwdriver), the dimensions of a single-hole cooker are about 14 in. x 14 in. x 20 in. EQUIPMENT AND STOWAGE OF A SMALL CRUISER A Few Remarks on Comfort as Obtained in the Twenty-Eight-Foot Motor Cruiser Tinker (Reprinted from Motor Boat, Sept, io, 1922) No two men will agree on what is necessary equipment for a small cruiser and what is junk. The subject is open to infinite discussion, but anyone who has had practical experience as master-owner of a small vessel will agree that equipment of any sort is a nuisance without proper stowage space. The equipment which I consider necessary to civilized cruising cannot be carried on the average small cruiser because of the absence of lockers, yet on so small a boat as a 28-footer there is ample room to stow twice the necessary equipment if space ordi¬ narily wasted is utilized. Tinker, named after the young mackerel of the Maine coast, is interesting not only as a stock boat but because of the ingenuity which has been used to devise in a conventional layout stowage space for an amount of equipment unheard of in a cruiser so small. Not only is the equipment out of the way and for the most part out of sight, but every item which can move in a seaway is secured in its place by chocks, or otherwise, and is instantly accessible when wanted. There is no clutter of articles stowed 126 Specifications Length . 28 ft. 0 in. Forepeax length 2 ft. 0 in. Beam . 8 ft. 8 in. Toilet length . . 4 ft. o in. Draft . 3 ft. 0 in. Cabin length. . . 6 ft. 6 in. Headroom Galley length . . 4 ft. 0 in. cabin . 6 ft. 4 in. Cockpit length 10 ft. o in. Berths 6 ft. 4 in.x2 ft. 6 in. Stern deck . 1 ft. 6 in.

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The stone is then placed in the cooker at the bottom of a hole, and the pot placed on top of it, the lid is clamped shut, and the cooker may be for¬ gotten for hours, until the food is to be eaten. A complete schedule of times and temperatures is furnished with each cooker, applying to all manner of foods. Even bread may be baked. The most convenient way to use the apparatus is to do all the cooking in the cool of the morning, or, if on a long coastwise cruise, when weather permits. The cook¬ ing for noon and evening meals can be done on the breakfast fire with a three-hole cooker, because divided saucepans may be obtained which fit three in a hole. Some dishes require a stone top and bottom, but most can be cooked with one stone. One of the many advantages of doing much of the cook¬ ing with one morning fire is that the cabin of a small boat is thus not superheated by the time the crew want to turn in. The question will be asked, where do you carry a three-foot box in the galley of a small cruiser? Aboard Tinker, which is 28 ft. overall, a two-hole cooker is carried in the cockpit against the forward bulkhead on the starboard side, lashed securely to an awning stanchion. It is entirely out of the way, and apparently the insulation is sufficient for it to function properly even in the bracing air of Maine waters. Every new boat which is designed should have a space in the galley built in for a fireless cooker. A hinged dressed top could be installed above it. If space is limited a one-hole cooker is better than none at all. Without the legs with which most of them are provided for kitchen use ashore (the legs can be removed with a screwdriver), the dimensions of a single-hole cooker are about 14 in. x 14 in. x 20 in. EQUIPMENT AND STOWAGE OF A SMALL CRUISER A Few Remarks on Comfort as Obtained in the Twenty-Eight-Foot Motor Cruiser Tinker (Reprinted from Motor Boat, Sept, io, 1922) No two men will agree on what is necessary equipment for a small cruiser and what is junk. The subject is open to infinite discussion, but anyone who has had practical experience as master-owner of a small vessel will agree that equipment of any sort is a nuisance without proper stowage space. The equipment which I consider necessary to civilized cruising cannot be carried on the average small cruiser because of the absence of lockers, yet on so small a boat as a 28-footer there is ample room to stow twice the necessary equipment if space ordi¬ narily wasted is utilized. Tinker, named after the young mackerel of the Maine coast, is interesting not only as a stock boat but because of the ingenuity which has been used to devise in a conventional layout stowage space for an amount of equipment unheard of in a cruiser so small. Not only is the equipment out of the way and for the most part out of sight, but every item which can move in a seaway is secured in its place by chocks, or otherwise, and is instantly accessible when wanted. There is no clutter of articles stowed Specifications Length . 28 ft. 0 in. Forepeax length 2 ft. 0 in. Beam . 8 ft. 8 in. Toilet length . . 4 ft. o in. Draft . 3 ft. 0 in. Cabin length. . . 6 ft. 6 in. Headroom Galley length . . 4 ft. 0 in. cabin . 6 ft. 4 in. Cockpit length 10 ft. o in. Berths 6 ft. 4 in.x2 ft. 6 in. Stern deck . 1 ft. 6 in.

The galley guide