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- Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:48 pm
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: Other boat/ship/location you want in frame with your launch
- Replies: 3
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Re: Other boat/ship/location you want in frame with your lau
And then, there's always Photoshop!
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:46 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: A question of a Lone skipper falling overboard
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25936
Re: A question of a Lone skipper falling overboard
There are two problems to be solved. One preventative and the other corrective. Rule one: Stay on the boat. This is accomplished by use of tethers attached to a harness which also contains an inflatable life vest. There should be two tethers, often made of ballistic nylon tubing with shock cord insi...
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:23 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Lightning Vulnerability for Steamboats.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16874
Re: Lightning Vulnerability for Steamboats.
I'd expect a drunken fool going full tilt in a speedboat would be a much greater worry than a lightning strike. It seems the conventional wisdom on lightning strikes on smaller vessels is that on the rare occasions it occurs, the electrical discharge hits the highest metal and then runs in a cone sh...
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:21 pm
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: US Vessel Flag Question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14116
Re: US Vessel Flag Question
Well, you were in better shape on the yacht "ensign" than I thought off the top of my head. I looked it up on Wikipedia. Three states have even enacted legislation recognizing it in their borders. Here's from Wikipedia: A modification of the national flag and ensign but with a fouled anchor in a cir...
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: US Vessel Flag Question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14116
Re: US Vessel Flag Question
Sorry to say, there is no proper option for flying the Hungarian ensign on your boat in US waters. A foreign ensign is only flown as a "courtesy" flag from the main yard or spreader, as described above. Similarly, although lots of people fly so-called "yacht ensigns" (the US ensign with an anchor on...
- Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: Military Launches
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8873
Re: Military Launches
What's overlooked in the discussion of spar torpedoes is that the intended way they were supposed to work was that they were attached to the wooden hulled ships, either by some sort of barbed "dart," or by a screw attached to the torpedo and turned by the spar so it screwed the charge into the woode...
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:35 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: San Juan sharpies
- Replies: 33
- Views: 30427
Re: San Juan sharpies
Harry Sucher's book, Simplified Boatbuilding, The V-Bottomed Boat (with a foreword by Howard Chappelle) has just what information you'd need. It includes plans for a lovely 50' flat bottomed New Haven Sharpie converted to a power yacht which appears very similar to some of the ferries in the Puget S...
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:07 am
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: Loo Solutions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14218
Re: Loo Solutions
"Bucket and chuck it!" Heads have sunk more boats than anything else and they are one of the biggest maintenance headaches afloat. Add to that the expense and the amount of space they take up on board with holding tanks and all and it gets pretty hard to justify them, particularly on small boats whe...
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:40 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Painting wood grain on metals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11605
Re: Painting wood grain on metals
I've done it and seen it done. There are kits you can get from interior decorating and paint stores that "supposedly" have all you need in them. To do what is known in the trade as a "faux finish" takes a bit of artistic ability but it isn't that hard if you follow the directions. That said, to do a...
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:16 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: It followed me home... can I keep it??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13342
Re: It followed me home... can I keep it??
Wesley, it's just not fair! You and your dad have entirely too many steam toys.
She looks to be a really good boat. John York is up in Napa County, isn't he? Is he still building steam engines?
She looks to be a really good boat. John York is up in Napa County, isn't he? Is he still building steam engines?