Turn-key steam launch

[Caraway]

Got to be a bargain. Self-built steam engined launch £12,500

 

[RunAgroundHard]

That is a bargain. Up my way, just south of Oban, a self built wooden boat, open deck, with outboard, about 18’, lovely traditional look, varnished et cetera, £8k. It is nothing special, unlike the steam launch.

 

[DownWest]

Can't imagine the work in creating that delightful boat, Worth a lot more,

 

[Boathook]

Would suit @Wansworth !

 

[Wansworth]

No Itwouldnt!

 

[Wansworth]

TAHITI KETCH - sailboatdata………This would!

 

[Blueboatman]

Good news
And you can afford this one
Nice delivery trip
1976 Tahiti Ketch for sale. View price, photos and Buy 1976 Tahiti Ketch #65027

 

[KevinV]

Can't imagine the work in creating that delightful boat, Worth a lot more,

It's beautifully crafted, and seriously cool - but would you actually want to own/ use it? At this price maybe, just maybe.

 

[Blueboatman]

It's beautifully crafted, and seriously cool - but would you actually want to own/ use it? At this price maybe, just maybe.

I think it is fantastic
Quite where I would keep it I’m not sure.

 

[Wansworth]

Good news
And you can afford this one
Nice delivery trip
1976 Tahiti Ketch for sale. View price, photos and Buy 1976 Tahiti Ketch #65027

No it was my reply to the idea I needed a steam launch

 

[Wansworth]

It was in 1972 I sawaTahiti ketch on the Hamble unfortunately money and time and boat never coincided

 

[Caraway]

It's beautifully crafted, and seriously cool - but would you actually want to own/ use it? At this price maybe, just maybe.

The owners of such things go to Steam Boat Association rallies all over the country. Very dedicated.

 

[DownWest]

Steam engine guys are 'slightly' different to normal people. It is not so much the boat, more the 'motive power' that draws them in...

 

[Caraway]

I've known a few and they are very welcoming and well-rounded guys.

 

[Keith 66]

I suspect the boat originally cost way more than that. My late Father in law was a long term member of the Sba & spent many years building a steam engine from scratch & then a 28ft launch to carry it. He got old doing it all & did get her steaming on Benfleet creek. After he passed away we subsequently sold the boat to a gentleman from Northumbria.
He also had dreamed of building his own engine & boat, A dour yorkshire engineer asked him "How old are you?"
He replied "60" (having just retired as a Gp) The engineer told him "Buy a boat & throw money at it or you will never do it!".
And so this is what he did, she is now in commision on Lake Windermere, bigger engine, fiercer propellor & goes like the clappers. You will never eat a better bacon & egg than one cooked in the shovel in the firebox of a steamboat.
Steam launches are a bad disease to catch....

 

[ducked]

There used to be a type that used petrol as the working fluid instead of water.
More "turnkey", because they got going from cold a lot quicker
And probably more exiting, somehow

 

[Keith 66]

That would be the Naptha launch, they used a closed cycle engine & boiler/condenser. The whole lot often being made of non ferrous ie brass & bronze. Most would have been scrapped for WW1, Somebody was once asked where all the Naptha launches went & replied "I guess they all blew up?".

 

[ducked]

That would be the Naptha launch, they used a closed cycle engine & boiler/condenser. The whole lot often being made of non ferrous ie brass & bronze. Most would have been scrapped for WW1, Somebody was once asked where all the Naptha launches went & replied "I guess they all blew up?".

I wonder if that''d be legally possible now?

 

[Caraway]

You will never eat a better bacon & egg than one cooked in the shovel in the firebox of a steamboat.
Steam launches are a bad disease to catch....

A friend would cook gourmet breakfasts on his boat, Tenacity.

 

[DJE]

I suspect the boat originally cost way more than that. My late Father in law was a long term member of the Sba & spent many years building a steam engine from scratch & then a 28ft launch to carry it. He got old doing it all & did get her steaming on Benfleet creek. After he passed away we subsequently sold the boat to a gentleman from Northumbria.
He also had dreamed of building his own engine & boat, A dour yorkshire engineer asked him "How old are you?"
He replied "60" (having just retired as a Gp) The engineer told him "Buy a boat & throw money at it or you will never do it!".
And so this is what he did, she is now in commision on Lake Windermere, bigger engine, fiercer propellor & goes like the clappers. You will never eat a better bacon & egg than one cooked in the shovel in the firebox of a steamboat.
Steam launches are a bad disease to catch....

Is she still called Anachronism?