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Hi All, The hole on the stern looks like it was there for a Bumpkin.
The hole on the side if it is amidships looks ready for beaching legs, is there any trace of one on the other side?
Just my thoughts Regards Graham

Thanks for posting the Windermere photo, it shows my boat Sarah Jane with the former owner. It ran a Taylor twin with a gas boiler then, now its coal fired with a Taylor single.
Hope you don't mind if I keep the photo as I have none from before I owned it.
Kind Regards Graham

We call them Fat Ladies I fill mine with steam oil and use it when I hear a squeak, and at the end of the day on shut down.

Hi, I have used angle iron for six seasons in Sarah Jane,the ash laying in the v keeps the bars cool. I burn a deep fire of Welsh steam coal with a 3/8" space between the bars. I also had the boards and the engine bearers scorch with the heat, so I fitted a false base to the boiler 1" deep...

Stuart Turner has been sold to the Bridport Foundry in Dorset. They cast the Plastow traction engine
range of models. Very nice people to deal with.

Hello, I thought i should say Hi, and tell you about myself and my boat (Sarah Jane). I found her a few years ago unloved and in need of a new engine and boiler, so I restored the hull and made a new Taylor single and a copper boiler for her. We have had a lot of fun on the local Kennet and Avon can...