I don't usually create a log entry unless I'm clocking sail or engine time. But I felt I had to make an exception in order to detail installing Cubic Cub on Trouper 2!

The Cub by Cubic (a Quebec based company) is a mini wood-stove. It's exceptionally well made at a very reasonable price of $500. This is the fourth furnace that has graced the main salon on Trouper 2. She was originally equipped with the notorious Chesapeake by Dickinson Marine. These stoves were problematic, to say the least and ours never worked properly. Looked damn nice though.

Once I finally gave up on the Dickinson, after Tom and I broke the carburetor and I couldn't find another one, I found a British made, brass, kerosene furnace. It stunk (as all kerosene appliances do) and needed to be pumped up frequently in order to keep burning. The needle valve gave up the ghost on one of the guy's weekends. It looked good hanging on the door of my shop for a while Next up, for all the 'good-ol'-boys' out there, a Hunting Buddy from Canadian Tire. The Hunting Buddy is a propane furnace with an oxygen sensor. Presumably that means if it sucks all the oxygen out of your cabin, it will turn off. I'm not sure if I'd be dead or alive when SAR finally found me.

Obviously I survived.

Enter this lovely wood burning stove, The Cubic Cub. Perfect for eating polish sausage hot dogs from Costco while listening to Johnny Cash on a cold January day...by.

The Cubic Cub arrives in the mail from Quebec.

How cute. I real wood burning stove!

Mounting hardware was not included, so I made my own out of a ten dollar piece of angle iron.

Straitening the original heat shield from the ol' Chesapeake.

No problem flattening the stainless. It's still a little curved but that's desirable.

A new piece of stanless sheeting between the stove and the heatshield. Stove is bolted to both.

With stainless steel stove pipe attached.

First burn with deck cap attached.

Freakin' out the neighbors. Burn baby burn!

The whole unit, stove and heat shield, hang on the bulkhead by four screws. We'll find out if this is a good thing or a bad thing in the days and weeks ahead!

Nice.