Re: ****table Generators

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
> "Eisboch" <rce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or input? I can't really
>> see anything wrong with it as long as it is stored properly and
>> obviously operated in the open,
>
> That's where I see a big problem - operating it in the open. This
> usually involves putting the thing high up where it broadcasts noise
> to everybody within half a mile. Just because you want to run a
> coffeemaker?
>
> Why not use a quite cookstove and spare all concerned the noise in an
> anchorage where quiet it called for? Or do you wish to be viewed as
> just another inconsiderate cheapskate asshole who ruins cruising for
> everybody else?
>
> Wilbur Hubbard

Agreed. In forty-odd years of racing and cruising I have never seen coffee
made in an electric percolator. O.K., for convenience we use instant
coffee,
but there must be lots of ways to make real coffee without a percolator.
Those Italian aluminum percs you sit on the stove top would surely make a
good cuppa?

Dennis.