The Steamboating Forum

Wow, the end of an era, my friend.

I'm the "steams like a witch" guy. I love my scotch - I don't have to think about it or worry about it, in fire-up or underway. She goes from cold to warming-through steam (50 PSI) in an hour (Part of the secret there is to use compressed sawdust, hardware-store bricks during fire-up. They...

Regardless of what size VFT you go with, I would neck those fire tubes down to more, of less diameter. A number of colleagues have done this to great success. 1.5" tubes are fine for a scotch or locomotive-style but are inefficient for a VFT.

Some very interesting visitors stopped by: Marine engineers, designers, and my favorite, Jeff Rutherford, who performed the restoration of the SY Cangarda

A wet IONA ...

In my happy place ...

Our display ...

Russ,

Here are a few shots:
Arriving Thursday ...

Heading up to Mystic CT tonight to display on land per invitation. It hasn't rained around here substantially for weeks, but they are calling for rain all three days of the Show. IONA was built for rain, but I'm bringing my bilge pump after all ...

Lol!