pot & pan retainers for cat stove

[YARGESOL]

I'm in the process of designing and installing a custom retainers for my stove - Amana 3 burners. Most links on Defender,go2marine , or theboatgalley shows "not available" . Just curios if someone ever did the same ?
It's defenitly essentual - driven by the cook heroism saving the lunch/dinner , when it's rough.

[Cotemar]

You can just purchase and modify the standard Pot Holders to fit your stove.

That is what I did with some hand me downs pot holders that someone had given me.
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[UNCIVILIZED]

I've taken flat aluminum stock & fab'd a bar in front of the burners to clamp potholders to on multi's. It's cheap & easy. As to commercially made potholders, my quick search at Defender turned up 6 options. And the 3 I clicked on let me put them into my shopping cart. So you might revisit their website & try again. Especially as the prices aren't really all that high. You'd spend more taking a date to dinner than you would purchasing a set.
Defender.com Search Results: pot holders

[YARGESOL]

Thanks, Uncivilized. I checked the Defender - they have specific holders for specific stove. Maybe it possible to adjust. I'm willing to put 2 x SS guides alongside the stove + 8 brackets (fixed by wing bolts) and 4 round SS retainers 4mm thick (fixed by wing bolts to the brakets). The guides will be screwed to cabinets arround,not to the stove. Expecting the quote from the shop

[John Holbrook]

Would this gear work for you?

Sure Marine Service, Inc. | Sea Rails and Pot Holders

[roland stockham]

Take a look at the ones on the Taylors kerosene stove, it wont fit but the rail design that would be simple to make and you could buy the pan clamps. Works well especially the front bar if you use a frying pan. (the handle goes under the bar)

[WildFireAus]

Yargesol so you definitely think it's worth having the retainers on the stove on a catamaran? We are just completing building our cat and a few years ago I bought a gimballed stove/oven with the retainers on it. A number of cat owners and boat builders said that I had bought the wrong stove for a cat. The time has come to install it and I am still not sure about it. We intend to do water sailing">blue water sailing. I would be interested in ur thoughts. Thanks heaps Gaye

[44'cruisingcat]

Yeah, they're probably worth having. You won't need them often. but occasionally they'd be useful to have.


We don't have any but if our galley had been on the other side we'd have wanted them on our trip to Vanuatu.

[Multihull]

This worked well for us in the middle of the Atlantic.

But a stable "multidirection" solution would have been nicer

[StuM]

Originally Posted by WildFireAus

Yargesol so you definitely think it's worth having the retainers on the stove on a catamaran? We are just completing building our cat and a few years ago I bought a gimballed stove/oven with the retainers on it. A number of cat owners and boat builders said that I had bought the wrong stove for a cat. The time has come to install it and I am still not sure about it. We intend to do blue water sailing. I would be interested in ur thoughts. Thanks heaps Gaye

Don't need gimbals, but pot retainers are necessary. The motion of a cat can have your pots jumping around quite a bit.

[tkeithlu]

I made up a rack out of 1/4 inch steel, which is easy to bend and to weld, that plugs into holes in the counter on each side of the stove. Ditto with a springy bar of 1/4" that sets in a hole in the deck and catches a hook on the front of the stove that keeps the oven door shut. The advantage was making it up to fit both our stove and our boat pot and pans. The rack lifts out of its 1/4" holes in the counter for cleaning.

[YARGESOL]

Originally Posted by WildFireAus

Yargesol so you definitely think it's worth having the retainers on the stove on a catamaran? We are just completing building our cat and a few years ago I bought a gimballed stove/oven with the retainers on it. A number of cat owners and boat builders said that I had bought the wrong stove for a cat. The time has come to install it and I am still not sure about it. We intend to do blue water sailing. I would be interested in ur thoughts. Thanks heaps Gaye

Gimballed stove is not nesessary on a cat...there is now heeling (almost). But, when it's rough-when your cat jumps over the short period swell - it's better to have retainers on the stove and,on cabinets.
I already lost a french press,a glass tea pot...The cook has to watch the pots,pans so,they don't slide away

[YARGESOL]

tkeithlu:"I made up a rack out of 1/4 inch steel" - sound very serious 1/4..like a shark cage

[YARGESOL]

Originally Posted by John Holbrook

Would this gear work for you?

Sure Marine Service, Inc. | Sea Rails and Pot Holders

John, this is simmilar what I designing... maybe will go for that. Thanks

[YARGESOL]

So, I finally ordered from Defender - they are a bit more expensive then suremarineservice, but they have longer holders - up to 11,5'' long.Different brand names: Seaward/Defender and Whale Marine/suremarineservice, but looks the same. And, looks very solid. Thanks, folks!