What did you decide on for a cooking stove? I lived aboard a sailboat for 3 years with an Origo fibre mat stove. It never failed me, but it smelled bad when cooking and the heat was not hot enough for some big pots of water and the like. I sailed on a big ketch out of Anacortes for a year, that had a Dickinson diesel stove. That thing was awesome in the PNW 9 months out of the year, and unusable in the Summer due to roasting you out of the cabin. It also had a water tank mounted on the flue, which at the time was the best hot water system I'd ever got to use on a boat. In the Summer we cooked on deck on a little propane Coleman. My dad and I have installed Wallas diesel stoves on the current two boats. They do take a while to get hot, but I think they are the best of both worlds. If you just cook on them, they don't heat the cabin up beyond bearing. They vent all of the exhaust outside. If you fire them up with the lid down and give them a half hour or so, they put out loads of clean, non-smelly, dry heat. Also, they run even better on kerosene than they do on diesel. Current camper has one of those Euro-style glass top propane cookstoves. I almost never use it, do nearly all of the cooking outside on a Partner propane stove. Nothing wrong with the inside stove, I just prefer to keep the steam and odors out of my bunk whenever possible. I kind of wish I'd went with the Wallas in the camper as well. I might change it out, once a little more of the "new" has worn off of the Phoenix.
Nice build, I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
