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Re: Boilers
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lugnet.pirates
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Date:
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Sun, 6 Feb 2000 23:48:40 GMT
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Richard Parsons (<FpJ6oq.5r9@lugnet.com>) wrote at
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> Oh, and because I'm trying and failing dismally to put a teeny tiny boiler
> into my period sidewheel riverboat (on the ten wide adventurers hull), and I
> can use all the inspiration I can get :-)
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?
--
Tony Priestman
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Rifer Expedition (was re: Boilers)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: Boilers
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Boilers
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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