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- Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14257
Re: New member
Welcome to the steamboating community, and this forum in particular. It makes running a steamboat much easier if it can be put on a trailer behind an ordinary car, which implies a hull between perhaps 4 and 6 metres long. Longer hulls can be towed legally (and practically) but a heavier vehicle may ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:36 am
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Building Spiffy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24755
Re: Building Spiffy
Honduran (proper) mahogany is bit eye-wateringly expensive, and not all of it's that good either. When I last needed some mahogany, my local timber yard said they'd got a lovely shipment of Sapele, and I might like to look at it. I did, and bought a fair bit. I wouldn't recommend Sapele though, with...
- Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:27 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Plain Bearing materials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9280
Re: Plain Bearing materials
I have come across it, and it's very good in a CLEAN environment. PTFE is generally a disaster in any application where there are metallic and other particulates floating about, because these embed into the plastic and can produce a very abrasive surface quite quickly. Iglidur is better, for reasons...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:06 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: After Coal?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27812
Re: After Coal?
There was an inquest near here yesterday, for a man who died on his boat in December: it sounds as though propane just filled the boat up while he was asleep in the cabin, possibly aided by alcohol. This is despite regular legally binding inspections of the installation, a requirement for at least t...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:38 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: After Coal?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27812
Re: After Coal?
Nobody has answered the original question about grate area. In England these days you have get home-heating stoves tested for both output and efficiency/pollutants, before you can legally sell them. For multi-fuel stoves such as the one I use to supplement a heating oil, the output ratings burning w...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: "Isambard"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9940
Re: "Isambard"
No, I put that badly, my nearest steamable water is the Orwell, which is always salty, and any boat I own MUST be able to go on it. What I meant was a surprising number of steamboaters won't go on salt water because it messes up the polished brass work, which I regard as a shame. In fact I'm between...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: "Isambard"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9940
Re: "Isambard"
Ah! I can't remember how far up the Tamar remains salty, but it's a shame not to be able to steam in salt water.
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:16 am
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: "Isambard"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9940
Re: "Isambard"
He/she certainly looks good in your photo. Good luck with the final details of fitting out: they always take longer than one can possibly believe beforehand! Where are you intending to steam her?
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:44 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: A new-old 25' launch
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17722
Re: A new-old 25' launch
There's nothing really difficult in restoring an old hull to seaworthy (or at least riverworthy) condition, but it does need a lot of time, thought, and effort, and I would say a covered working space for it. Nobody could really blame you for filling in the worst holes, replacing a few frames, and ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:29 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: A new-old 25' launch
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17722
Re: A new-old 25' launch
There's nothing really difficult in restoring an old hull to seaworthy (or at least riverworthy) condition, but it does need a lot of time, thought, and effort, and I would say a covered working space for it. Nobody could really blame you for filling in the worst holes, replacing a few frames, and t...