Roger Barnes's video: THE GALLEY BOX - geeky video 1

In my opinion the best way to set up your kitchen in a cruising dinghy is to create a galley box. This video shows you around mine. The stove I use is a Dometic Origo 1500. Dometic recently retooled this well-loved stove and gave it a new streamlined and refreshed design. Presumably they spent too much money on this pointless exercise, because almost immediately afterwards they decided to stop making the stove entirely, in favour of their electric and gas boat stoves - saying that the sales didn't justify the investment in the Origo. Perhaps someone else will be allowed to take over the manufacture of these excellent stoves, but at present you can only obtain them second hand, and even spares are becoming difficult to obtain. They are very robustly made in stainless steel however, and very long lasting, so it is worth trying to pick up one second hand. The brief competitor to the Origo was called “Cookmate”. It was, I believe, made in the same factory, and happened because of some sort of trademark dispute. Here for comparison is a video about a galley box designed around a Trangia alcohol stove: https://youtu.be/hZCEGFl1sIU As these stoves are basically a pot of burning liquid I would only use them in a boat if the stove is well fixed down, and cannot be upset. NEW HOPE FOR ALCOHOL STOVE FANS Since I first posted this video I received the following message: Bonjour Roger, I have looked at your video about galley box (I share your opinion about this fine piece of equipment) and just for info, Compass, the German online distributor, is selling an exact copy of the two burner Origo 3000 (but no single burner similar to 1500). I bought one last month for my van and the overall building quality is the same than Origo, with exactly the same features at the same place, screw holes included! https://www.compass24.com/comfort/pantry-grill-oven/stoves/150526/spirit-cooker-3000-2-flame). And another friend has found this: https://camperinteriors.co.uk/products/can-fn2001-single-burner-gel-alcohol-stove?fbclid=IwAR1AnZ4h3I4Psi_z7yF0hWkPq8gM6YsZa4y7yVTSUAIKdG3sxmTK2sX_xgY And another one has found this: https://thailand-travelbase.com/2020/07/23/hpv-salsa-regulating-alcohol-stove/ So suddenly the world is full of alcohol stoves! INTERESTED IN DINGHY CRUISING? Read my book, the Dinghy Cruising Companion: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinghy-Cruising-Companion-Roger-Barnes/dp/1408179164 And join the Dinghy Cruising Association: http://dinghycruising.org.uk/ AVEL DRO Do you want a boat like mine? Avel Dro is an Ilur designed by François Vivier, and built of clinker plywood by Les Charpentiers Reunis of Cancale in 1994. The design is based closely on the traditional inshore fishing boats of Brittany in the early years of the twentieth century, hence her single boom-less lugsail rig and lack of a mainsheet horse, (sometimes controversial among my viewers). Although rare in Britain, Ilurs are relatively common in France. The name Avel Dro is Breton, and means a shifting wind. Length 4.44 m Sail area 12.2 m² Beam 1.70 m Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m Design category C3 François Vivier's website (in English): http://www.vivierboats.com/en/ Similar dinghies can often be found for sale in the French magazine le Chasse-Marée: https://www.chasse-maree.com/revue/ Or try Le Bon Coin, (where you can buy anything in France): https://www.leboncoin.fr