Welcome to the forum Tom. Nice to have some young blood in the hobby!

If you're friendly with five of your neighbors you can borrow their scales and use your scale, putting one under each caster. Adding up all the weights should get your net weight.

HAHA! Thank you Pete, we will be looking into them!

Ron,

Happy to hear of the progress. Cant wait to see the pictures!

Sorry to hear that hull work is in the future

Can you shoot me your email or cell# so I can send you some pictures of that burner I was telling you about?

Hey! I'm glad I was able to goad you into posting some build info and pictures! She looks great!

~Wes

Bart, I don't remember that meet but have heard many a story about it. I guess my family as on the "indian" when Joe Butterman owned it. We took shelter in the slough that the Pickersgills used to live on. Bob, Haha This will be the last boat I think... Or at least until I build a warehouse... The h...

Thank you. Working on deciding the engine at the moment.. We have several options in hand such as a Bumaris compound, a Scripps compound, a Herreshoff (maybe?) single, and a very large French "Claparede" compound... Ideally I'd like to put another York compound in her as that's what she was original...

My father and I visited an old friend, John York, yesterday and this followed us home... The "Ben My Cheree," a 30' steel Panatela with original Don Mentizer watertube boiler; http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/buickcars/Steam%20BOATS/20161013_162146_zpsmq6xigjt.jpg http://i30.photobucket.com/al...

Thank you guys.. working on "Persistence" and this is the last obstacle... just have to persist

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