After much lurking in the background and reading other people's posts I have finally signed up.
I have been steamboating in the UK since the mid 90's mostly in my dad's boat Meterorite and in the steam canoe Taniwha which my dad and I built in the early 2000's.
In January this year I started building my own boat, the hull is 7'3" LOA by 4' beam of my own design and is pretty much finished.
I bought an engine of eBay, it is 1 1/2" + 1 1/2" X 1 1/2" twin.
At the moment I am working on the monotube boiler. I have made a stainless steel pot burner from a mug and hope to burn waste vegetable oil or old engine oil.
I am currently bending the tube (3/16" OD Cunifer brake pipe) which is going to be arranged in 4 layers in a cone shape, here is a former I have made to bend the tube around.
I hope to get her finished for 2013, but we will have to see how we get on, other major bits left to do include make the feed pump, fit the prop shaft and make a kitchen rudder.
Regards
Kingsley
