Hi Russ Glad to hear the good news about your wife and that there will be some possibility of steaming this coming year. Yes, the bag is just right and keeping loose but essential items from bouncing about in a towed boat is important. I ended up making brackets for the paddles, the boat hook and th...

Hi Simo Back to the topic of getting yourself a boat. A 16ft ex Royal Navy motor boat hull has just on the Small Ads on the Steamboat Association website. It is very cheap (£450) but you would need to acquire a trailer. Details are here [ https://steamboatassociation.co.uk/page-1854572 . The same se...

Hi Simo Welcome to the Forum. You have certainly come to the right place for advice and we have some very knowledgeable members who will always try to answer any question you have. Can I also suggest that you might like to join the Steamboat Association (of GB) which is an international organisation...

Hi Curt Welcome to the mad but wonderful world of steamboating. As you have noticed from the above post everybody will try to help you with any questions you have. Our members have a variety of skills and there are some very well qualified engineers on the site who give very sound advice. There are ...

Hi Everybody Thanks for the latest posts and I do like the double rings idea Dietrich. Mike Rometer has sent me a few words on the issue within other correspondence. He sides with Mike's view on cast iron rings: "'Back in the day' there were many, many Patent rings, all claiming this or that dubious...

Hi Everybody Many thanks for your contributions. The problem that I have is that posthumous editing means I cannot ring up and ask the author what he meant. Sadly, there is no photograph of the rings that Chris mentioned. He was a motor engineer at one point in his career so I am guessing that the b...

Hi Steamboating friends I am editing for publication the story of my friend Chris Doughty's boat build. I have got to the stage where he is discussing the engine, a Stuart Turner 5a that he had been given by one of his mates. In discussing the engine he suggests that he would have fitted "Courflex p...

Well done Fred

That sounds like a fun project so please keep the camera going. We armchair steamers like to have pictures to inspire us.

Regards

Pete

That sounds a good idea.

I have done a quick initial search and turned up this:

https://www.paperlit.com/blog/3-tools-t ... ne-online/

There will most likely be others but this might be worth a half hour of browsing.

Regards

Pete

Hi Dietrich and Friends Sorry if I have dragged the thread off your original specification of which I am very supportive. It was me being curious again since my lack of engineering knowledge often has me wondering "how else could one do that?" That tendency probably comes from too many of my plans h...