There's an all too brief article on page 23 of the July-August 1962 edition of "Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches" (Elliot Bay Classics III) about a 40' X 10' X 5'6" replica of "Fish," a Coos Bay passenger ferry, named the "Pamela Deare." The article show a topside elevation profile and a photo o...

Oh, well... never mind! LOL

Thanks for a great explanation. I don't see me pursuing that level of efficiency in a small marine steam plant, but I'm glad a question that's been bugging me for a while is now answered.

This may be a stupid question, but humor me... I'm still learning. I have an "energy star" natural gas fired hot water heater that claims to be something like 95% efficient. In any case, the exhaust is so cool that the stack is nothing but a piece of PVC pipe that barely gets warm to the touch. That...

Satisfying my armchair interest in steamboats has kept me out of trouble for the last few years. I'd pretty much run out of "daydream material" on small craft and things maritime until I widened my horizons. Particularly in my reading and rereading of Durham's "Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches" ...

A "bow rail" is as properly descriptive as any term, I suppose. However, the more colorful nautical term for such rails is "buffalo rail." This is opposed to, I suppose, "monkey rails" which are at the stern rather than the bow. Whether the "monkeys" and the "buffaloes" are related is anybody's gues...

You worried about fuel efficiency? :lol: :lol: :lol: Oh yea, it's worse... lots and lots of worse. Then again, it's more fun. Lots and lots of more fun. Most of the guys in here have forgotten more about steam plant efficiency than I know, but conserving heat is what steam plant efficiency is all ab...

Howdy all! I'm new in town, but I've been lurking for a while. I've been into traditional boats and boatbuilding all my 61 years, but only in the last four or five years have my interests intesified in the direction of steam powered vessels. Maybe it's age. One reaches a point were going forward in ...