Origo Stove

[tomwatt]

Grime, St. Paul also has some brass kerosene lamps that seem pretty workable.
Both pressure and wick-type.

[Rick Westlake]

Grime, the St. Paul Mercantile "Butterfly" kerosene stove looks nothing like my Origo stove.

The stove I've got is a non-pressurized stove that uses denatured alcohol. It's a two-burner stove that's set in the counter-top of my galley. Each burner has a "fuel reservoir" cartridge that's about 7 inches in diameter and 2.5 inches deep, which has a 3-inch (or so) hole in the top; the reservoir is packed with wool, which keeps the alcohol fuel from sloshing, and the "burner hole" has a wide-mesh screen over it to keep the wool in place.

Any camper who has used the Swedish "Trangia" alcohol stove will get the idea immediately. The Origo cartridges take a liter of alcohol and, supposedly, burn for several hours on one such fill.  I haven't given them a formal trial, this way, but the fuel will last for quite a while if you put a rubber gasket on top of the "burner hole" in the cartridge between uses.

Alcohol, being an "oxygenated" fuel, gives you less heat (less energy) than a pure hydrocarbon fuel such as propane, butane, or kerosene. Propane is widely heralded as "the best stove fuel system in existence." But a new propane stove might cost me $600, the propane bottles themselves might cost $200 each, the gas-lines (plus solenoid switches and other safety gear) would cost hundreds more, and I'd have to fabricate a propane locker with overflow-drain lines and all ...

I would be surprised if it cost much less than $2000 to fit a propane system into my boat. That would buy me an awful lot of stove alcohol, even at $30 a gallon!

[Seadogdave]

I have a similar stove on my Catalina 27.  Try Home Depot or Lowes for the alcohol - I think I paid about $16 a gallon.  I think it puts out pretty good heat, even though my wife don't like it.