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| Do any part of the boilers in a capital ship of the mauve decade protrude above waterline? Maybe you should just suggest the top of the boilers on the lowest deck? And why is this cross posted to Pirates?? :-) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<389BA44F.76044CE9@...ager.net>) wrote at 04:17:19 (...) Because they still operate in the South China Sea? (amongst other places :-) ) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Actually, because a lot of people with good technical expertise and interest read .pirates and not .boats (IIRC). And yeah, I was thinking about just modeling the tops of the boilers...but I haven't settled on a solution yet. best LFB (24 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) How about because Lindsay, arch pirate and knower of all manner of obscure things piratical, wants it that way. Sounds fine by me. Oh, and because I'm trying and failing dismally to put a teeny tiny boiler into my period (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Richard Parsons (<FpJ6oq.5r9@lugnet.com>) wrote at 23:08:58 (...) Is this the Amazon Adventure thingy? I don't think we've got it in the UK. Are these the single brick thick bow sections? (24 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Tony Priestman wrote (...) I (...) (URL) think six wide bow bits used to make 'cutters', and then think ten wide. There's also a top/bottom plate with the same profile (a la six wide) and there is also a top plate complete with gunwales. In the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I've often gone directly for screw propulsion. But if I'm not mistaken, weren't most small paddlewheelers (<800 dwt) run by a single boiler, oriented front to back like a train given the orientation of the wheels' axle? I saw a boat like (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I (...) weren't (...) like (...) That would sound about right. I can ask the PNLTC members who live in Portland for pictures of one if you guys are really interested (Ben Fleskes should be able to get pics fairly easy). From memory, ya, most (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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