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- Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:40 am
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: A new Ohioan Steamer
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Re: A new Ohioan Steamer
Many centerboard sailboat hulls can be easily converted to steam, cut the centerboard well out, fiberglass in a stern tube, and you have a reasonable hull for a typically low price. Some of them have a traditional plumb stem (or nearly so), and work well at displacement type speeds. Sailboats with ...
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:11 am
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: A new Ohioan Steamer
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A new Ohioan Steamer
Hi, I have always been interested in steam, but never really did much until a year and a half ago when I bought a small non code vertical firetube (VFT) boiler. I was more or less alone in the woods at the start, learning the ropes running my boiler in the driveway experimenting/learning different a...