The Steamboating Forum

The pump I used was from Procon pumps, they have lots of different models with different capacities, all the details are on their website. A word of warning- they are rotary vane pumps so should only be driven in one direction, which was fine for me as my engine was non reversing. If you were to put ...

Hi, I used one of these pumps on my monotube boiler setup:
[Youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9Pcqp2z3M[/Youtube]

Kingsley

A the start of June the SBA held a competition where members had to build a steam powered outboard motor. At the event these were attached to the back of a boat and took steam from the boat's boiler via a flexible hose. The competition took the form of a time trial but the main aim for most ...

Quinten,

I know of one steamboat with a ducted propeller, it is called Juno (details in the SBA register here :
http://www.steamboatassociation.org.uk/Default.aspx?pageId=1117882 )

I seem to remember the owner saying that he didn't think it was any more efficient in practice but that it was very ...

Mack,

There is a brief report of the Rally here.

A short clip of the whistle in use can be found at the end of this other video (from 4mins 42 secs):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVvrdF2XO-I

We always warm the whistle before use by holding the valve just open so that a small flow of steam ...

Mike,

Congratulations on the boat.

British Waterways has been replaced by the Canal & River Trust. If you keep you don't keep your boat on their waterways (they don't look after all of the waterways in the UK) you can get a short term visitors licence (see: http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/boating ...