Name the inboard engine

[mjcoon]

I have been on that very steam launch in your picture. I can't remember its name, but I do remember it was built as a steam launch (circa 1900?) for a local gentleman. By WW2 the steam engine had been replaced at some point by a diesel, and the boat was requisitioned by the military for the duration. After the war it was used by boatyards as a workboat. A few years back it was rescued for restoration by some enthusiasts. They hunted high and low for a suitable second-hand steam engine, and eventually found one that had been in use as a stationary engine on a farm somewhere around the Broads. It turned out to be the original engine taken out of this very boat! They refurbished it, but had to make a new boiler. It is a sight to behold, with open crank etc. It has a lovely sound, and is so quiet/gentle and vibration free compared to a diesel. The boat requires two people to operate it, one to fuel and regulate the engine, and the other to steer the boat. Coming in to dock etc requires good coordination between the two of them!

By way of thanks for that I offer another photo of that location with the caption I wrote:
"Our yacht 'Typhoon' & historic steam launch 'Falcon' near Museum of the Broads, Stalham, Norfolk"

 

[LittleSister]

Ah, yes, Falcon it is.

Well done for getting your boat up to Stalham. I like the look of it (and also had a yacht with doors rather than washboards). What is it?

 

[mjcoon]

Ah, yes, Falcon it is.

Well done for getting your boat up to Stalham. I like the look of it (and also had a yacht with doors rather than washboards). What is it?

I'm a Broads novice. It was my long-term skipper and Broads enthusiast who knew about the free mooring next to the museum that is more often available because it is surrounded by boat hire yards.

Our charter yacht was designed by Orin (surely really Olin) Stephens, according to the blurb at Eastwood-whelpton/fleet/typhoon, so has some pedigree...

 

[LittleSister]

I'm a Broads novice. It was my long-term skipper and Broads enthusiast who knew about the free mooring next to the museum that is more often available because it is surrounded by boat hire yards.

Our charter yacht was designed by Orin (surely really Olin) Stephens, according to the blurb at Eastwood-whelpton/fleet/typhoon, so has some pedigree...

Ah, I'd assumed it was your boat, sailed to the Broads from elsewhere. I also hadn't realised the Upton yard (I've walked past on occasion) had such an extensive and varied fleet of sailing boats for hire.

I've mainly done the Broads in canoes and rowing boats. I did once bring my sailing boat (hull and deck actually moulded in Wroxham decades before) to the Broads, but having a fixed mast my routes were limited. We entered via Great Yarmouth and went up the River Yare to Whitlingham, on the outskirts of Norwich.

 

[CJU]

That's nothing. I've mentioned before the ferro-cement dinghy that was built (by apprentices?) by Windboats of Wroxham (and now on display at The Museum of the Broads at Stalham) which, it is said, takes 6 to 8 people to lift it! Literally as light as two or three feathers, perhaps?

Curiously, that boat, like the one in the vid above, is also yellow. There are mysterious forces at play in the universe!

I’m surprised it wasn’t ’Roy’s of Wroxham’ he seemed to have owned most of Wroxham