Sailor introduction

Hi,

I posted a couple of items, and based on Jim's replies, I thought a 
more complete intro might be in order.

I am 50, North Carolina based, and have a boat called a Sun Cat, a 17 
foot boat with a small cabin. I usually daysail, but also do some 
overnighters. My boat just uses battery-powered things like lights, 
etc.

It came with a butan stove that now doesn't light. I don't really 
know what is wrong. I never really used it.

I came to the boat with a 25 year old Peak 1 that uses Coleman fuel. 
What I usually do is take it up to a dock and heat water for coffee 
or boil in bag meals...

Last time out, I was at anchor, and I took the stove out to cockpit 
for heating water for coffee...worked fine, and yet I was glad it 
wasn't windy or stormy...

That got me thinking of boom-tents and different ways to heat the 
water.

Came here, saw a file about a camping tarp; Jim called my attention 
to some key differences in camping use and sailboat use...I do tent 
camp a lot, and have some blue poly tarps...none has the mosquito 
mesh, and most of the time, I don't need it BUT...

Also saw something about esbit stoves...that seems to have potential. 
I wonder how hot it gets underneath the stove...that could be an area 
I need to look at for cockpit use...

Well, that is all I can think of for now...thanks for reading...