Here's Corra Linn's engine part built. This is 2.5" x 5". I've realised that the hotwell platform on the right hand side of the A frame is too high - I laid this out from a drawing for a larger engine - so will need to modify the pattern and have a new frame cast. So it's two steps forward and one s...

Simon posted a pic on the old site, here's a couple of update photos if I have followed Simon's instructions correctly. The boat is a 20ftx 4ft 6inch Herreshoff style from a plan in MIT Museum , and will be called "Corra Linn" after a waterfall on the River Clyde near my home. Work has stopped for t...

Mike, if you would like to learn from those who have experience, there are some wonderful machinists showing how they do it on the website "Home Model Engine Machinist". If you go to Showing them / Works in progress you will see how lathes and mills are used to build steam engines, on dozens of buil...

Now registered again on this new board. I'm building a 20ft Herreshoff replica launch and engine and posted a photo on the old board. Life intervened and progress stalled, but it has now moved on a bit and I'll post pictures if there is interest and I can figure out how. Thanks Simon for the board, ...