Lamp oil

[pete faga]

Just bought a Weems and Plath mini oil lamp on eBay. Just wondering what brand of lamp oil to use.Weems and Plath's own brand?
Pete

[steveg]

I have used lamp oil that was purchased at Walmart. Not aware of the brand. It was certainly not Weems and Plath. It has worked well. Having not ever used any other lamp oil I could not tell you whether there was a difference.

[tartansailor]

Regardless of the brand, the whole trick in eliminating smoke is to keep the wick low enough
so the flame doesn't smoke.
Dick

[Neil Gordon]

I use whatever I find on the shelf at the hardware store. I'd avoid scented oil.

[Maine_Buzzard]

A pox on yer hindmost, ye scurrilous dogs, for leadin' the goodly man awandering from th' sea...

A fine beauty such as, and snatched from other, undeservin folks should never be spoilt by those unnatural elixirs.

Set yerself out at first light abord th Charles Morgan, and strike at the ocean's graces. Fill your ears with the keening of the albatross, your belly with hardbread and beer, and your boots with seawater...

Chase the blackest leviathans across th' waves spitting caps, down a hundred fathoms, and around the horns.

If you should find youself both victorious an intact, thank God and Neptune for the bounty that you must lay into day and night. After your woman lies low and rolls deepnin the troughs, leave the sun at the quarter and return to find the owner's coin for alln your time and heart. Take also a bottle of the sweetest, saddest light.

Fill that torch. Dance! Drink! Sing! Chase the darkness, rout it into the corner, beat it back with the body of the great beast.

And when the sun rises, know your call and return to the pier holding your ship, for just one more voyage...

An

[Jim Davis]

Ultra Pure Lamp Oil Buy it at the local hardware store. Good burn time with no smoke and minimal odor. A lot cheaper than the W&P stuff and less paraffin smell.

[tjr818]

A pox on yer hindmost, ye scurrilous dogs, for leadin' the goodly man awandering from th' sea...

A fine beauty such as, and snatched from other, undeservin folks should never be spoilt by those unnatural elixirs.

Set yerself out at first light abord th Charles Morgan, and strike at the ocean's graces. Fill your ears with the keening of the albatross, your belly with hardbread and beer, and your boots with seawater...

Chase the blackest leviathans across th' waves spitting caps, down a hundred fathoms, and around the horns.

If you should find youself both victorious an intact, thank God and Neptune for the bounty that you must lay into day and night. After your woman lies low and rolls deepnin the troughs, leave the sun at the quarter and return to find the owner's coin for alln your time and heart. Take also a bottle of the sweetest, saddest light.

Fill that torch. Dance! Drink! Sing! Chase the darkness, rout it into the corner, beat it back with the body of the great beast.

And when the sun rises, know your call and return to the pier holding your ship, for just one more voyage...

An

Having just finished In the Heart of the Sea (a good winter read, by the way), I don't think we are ready to take Sláinte after any leviathans and I suppose whale oil is now prohibited anyway. Off to HomeDepot....

[Bob Ohler]

I agree with Jim. I prefer Ultra Pure but it can be hard to find at times. It is often more available at this time of the year though. If you see it on the shelf, may I suggest that you buy 2?

[Steve Kuhar]

And when the sun rises, know your call and return to the pier holding your ship, for just one more voyage...

An

This board always gets to be a lot more fun to read when winter comes to New England. It also gets to be a lot harder to get a straight answer to a question. Makes me wonder if I should let my prop spin when I am under sail?

Steve Kuhar
Commodore

[Oswego John]

No, no, no. Let me illustrate once again the correlation concerning a spinning prop while sailing and my helicopter that I keep in my back yard.

O J

[Neil Gordon]

Makes me wonder if I should let my prop spin when I am under sail?

Steve Kuhar
Commodore

Depends on whether you want to go faster or slower.

[hughesw]

Or what about that downhaul/cunnigham thingy?

[bill2]

Here we go again

thought we decided that the only time the prop should be spinning is when the motor is smoking

or

iffen you have a hybrid and are recharging the batteries

[Neil Gordon]

Here we go again

thought we decided that the only time the prop should be spinning is when the motor is smoking

or

iffen you have a hybrid and are recharging the batteries

Your mistake is thinking we "decided."

[Paul D.]

I have a large yacht lamp and use it pretty much daily aboard. I concur with using ultra pure lamp oil from a hardware shop and judicious use and trimming of the wick. As you get down in grades of oil all the way to kerosene you will find more smell and smoke. I used kerosene a lot in the Dietz lanterns at a remote camp I worked at, which worked great but it is best outside. In the closed space of the cabin of our boats, the ultra pure stuff is the way to go. You will find it goes a long way in those lamps too. I keep a bottle under the sink to refill the lamp and that easily lasts a season for us.