Christmas photo
Christmas photo
in fact, the picture is from last year, but no snow yet this year
Merry Christmas
Johan
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Re: Christmas photo
great pic!! Where is this scene?
On a crazy warm Christmas day, yesterday, i took my lil steamboat with the new boiler out on the Arkansas river. I usually burn large clumped coal but this past year on my big boat "Fearless", i have been burning bagged coal. My MO is to start up on charcoal and then switch to real coal. i had 80# when i threw on a load of of bag coal. Mistake!! The old grate in the Semple boiler was not made for the smaller coal and it fell through choking the air flow and all but killing the fire. i didn't want to start shoveling out the coal.... so after a two mile jaunt we were back at shore. every outing is a success when you are loaded up and headed home.
Merry Christmas memory!
On a crazy warm Christmas day, yesterday, i took my lil steamboat with the new boiler out on the Arkansas river. I usually burn large clumped coal but this past year on my big boat "Fearless", i have been burning bagged coal. My MO is to start up on charcoal and then switch to real coal. i had 80# when i threw on a load of of bag coal. Mistake!! The old grate in the Semple boiler was not made for the smaller coal and it fell through choking the air flow and all but killing the fire. i didn't want to start shoveling out the coal.... so after a two mile jaunt we were back at shore. every outing is a success when you are loaded up and headed home.
Merry Christmas memory!
LIGHT THE FIRE!!
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Re: Christmas photo
Well done Johan
A nice seasonal picture for the holidays.
Have you somehow managed to drive your boats up onto the lawn or is there a sort of inlet in which they are moored?
Regards
Pete
A nice seasonal picture for the holidays.
Have you somehow managed to drive your boats up onto the lawn or is there a sort of inlet in which they are moored?
Regards
Pete
Re: Christmas photo
Hi, scene is in the archipelago in the Baltic Sea, Sweden. and the boat is frozen in the ice with boat Houses in the background.
practical with icebreaker reinforced hull in Winter.
Johan
practical with icebreaker reinforced hull in Winter.
Johan