Simplicity hit and miss...going to a new home.....probably.

[Jo]

What are you planning to do with the Steam plant Dave? Keep it?

Its not as big as the Simplicity  but then again with the boiler it might be.

Jo

[steamer]

What are you planning to do with the Steam plant Dave? Keep it?

Its not as big as the Simplicity  but then again with the boiler it might be.

Jo

Oh yes I'll keep it, I'll build another frame for the diesel plant so it can drop in. and I'll put the steam plant in storage.

She's a cute little thing.....

Dave 

[doubletop]

Dave

Are you going to re-brand yourself? 

Pete

[Vixen]

"Mr M'Andrew, don't you think diesel spoils romance at sea?"
Maybe, but it's a lot more convenient,
Damned ijjit!

Lets have some photos of the launch, before you put the steam plant into store

MIke

[steamer]

 :

"Mr M'Andrew, don't you think diesel spoils romance at sea?"
Maybe, but it's a lot more convenient,
Damned ijjit!

Lets have some photos of the launch, before you put the steam plant into store

MIke

Man created boats to keep his engines dry!

[steamer]

Here ya go Mike

Dave

[Vixen]

Hi Dave,

Beautiful boat.  : That's going to be so much fun for you all. Old fashioned tea and cucumber sandwiches on the river bank.

Are you going to put the Yanmar in a tin box with a false smokestack to look just like the boiler?        Just thinking aloud.

Mike

[steamer]

Hi Dave,

Beautiful boat.  : That's going to be so much fun for you all. Old fashioned tea and cucumber sandwiches on the river bank.

Are you going to put the Yanmar in a tin box with a false smokestack to look just like the boiler?        Just thinking aloud.

Mike

Here's the problems to encounter:

It' hard to pull into a marina and ask for 300 pounds of dry hardwood cut and split to fit my grates....which are pretty small.
Sitting comfortably with said firewood is a bit cramped.
No sun set cruises without a light......

Just sayin

Dave
 

[steamer]

Hi Dave,

Beautiful boat.  : That's going to be so much fun for you all. Old fashioned tea and cucumber sandwiches on the river bank.

Are you going to put the Yanmar in a tin box with a false smokestack to look just like the boiler?        Just thinking aloud.

Mike

The entire steam plant is on a common steel frame held into the boat with 6 threaded studs and some through hulls...  Just pick it up and its out.   I just need to build a new frame for the diesel.   As the diesel is the same size as my engine alone, I should have some more seating room available ...perhaps 2 more.

Dave

[steamer]

http://www.neme-s.org/The%20Construction%20of%20the%20Steamlaunch.pdf

theres a bit more information there I think about the build....

Dave

[Vixen]

Man created boats to keep his engines dry!

Man's ingenuity rever fails to impress.

Just thought you could consider hiding the new diesel plant inside a box with a false smokestack so it looks like the old steam plant and continues to  keep the characteristic look of a old time steam launch.

Mike

[steamer]

Man created boats to keep his engines dry!

Man's ingenuity rever fails to impress.

Just thought you could consider hiding the new diesel plant inside a box with a false smokestack so it looks like the old steam plant and continues to  keep the characteristic look of a old time steam launch.

Mike

Nahhhhh.....doing that would make me a hypocrite!.....this just makes me a traitor!....   

I originally designed this boat to take Steam, Gas or Electric, .....so wait few years, I may fill in the third one too!...

Dave

[Vixen]

Point taken.

Mike

[steamer]

Point taken

Mike

Rushforth would look good in a burlap sack....LOL     She needs a canopy, so that is on the list of things to do...

Dave

[Vixen]

At least with the diesel, the boat will get some usage.

I once helped a friend (another Dave) re-caulk and rebuild the hull of an 90 year old steam launch. Lots of new timber had to be installed.  It had a fire tube boiler, like yours, but it was coal fired. The engine was  Stuart Turner 6A. On the first test run, we steamed out of Portsmouth Harbour into the Solent. Suddenly Dave realised he was out of coal and loosing pressure. Rather than make a SOS call to the coastguard to be rescued,  he ripped out all the new mahogany seating and furnishings and fed them into the firebox. We limped back to the hard, got the launch back on the trailer and the rebuild started all over again.

Mike