Searay 270 DA Stove Information

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santini

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In June 2007 I purchased a 1991 Searay 270 DA after having a 19 ft Searay. Most of the documents were delivered and I read through all of them. My Question to any SeaRay owner: Where I can I fine the Stove's alcohol bottle. I've looked just about everywhere.
 
First question, is it an alcohol/electric or electric only? I had a 1989 Sea Ray with an alcohol/electric stove and it was obvious where the alcohol fill was. Between the burners was a pump toward the front of the stove and a fill cap toward the back. It was a Kenyon brand stove so you might want to do a search for that to get info on the model that you have.
 
it is an alcohol & electric Stove, The pump works and send alcohol through the center burners, but as you said I might have to research the manufacture's web site.
 
As mentioned the pump is between the burners on the near side. The fill location is on the opposite side between the burners. It takes about a cup or so to fill it. Pump it 15 - 20 times, open the burner for just a second and then close it. That will put some alcohol in the burner cup. Light it and let it burn out. Then strike a match and hold it near the cup and open the valve and it should be hot enough to burn. If not, put some more in the cup and get it even hotter. The first few times you do it, have a pot handy with some water. You will attempt to scorch your eyebrows and you will swear you are going to burn the ceiling, but you won't. We just put some in the burner cup and light it. As it starts to burn out, we open the valve briefly again. Eventually it will start burning normally. It gets hot enough that it goes right to a vapor instead of staying liquid and that's when it's working right. You'll get a nice blue flame shooting out all sides of the burner cup. The nice thing about an alcohol fire is that water will put it out! The first few times I did it, I wasn't ready for a 6 - 12 inch high flame! As we got better at it, the flame was only an inch or two while heating the burner cup. Now, we just put a pot of water over it until is settles down and we can light it or get it burning normally.
 
I had forgotten about all the pre-heating stuff. It does take a bit of a technique to get the burner heated up and running. I found it was alot easier in July than in May up here in the north. Ambient temperature had a significant effect. I remember getting an SOS call from the wife one morning while I was out fishing in the dinghy. It was her first attempt to get the coffee going and her first experience with the flame up as mentioned above. A detailed training session followed.
 
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