My Steamboat

Pegasus

Boilers, Water-Tube type: includes thoughts about "traditional" copper pressure vessels, as well as information about Unaflow, or Pipe Boilers, including construction methods and accessories
A Deadweight Tester for Pressure Gauges
Details, i.e. where the devil resides: photos of various interesting things on a variety of vessels.
Feed Pumps and their problems; Good ones, bad ones and making the bad ones better...
Hotwell Design Although I am now running a non-condensing plant, I tinkered with this essential ingredient to a condensing system long enough to learn a thing or two...
Hull Construction This 4-part article I wrote describes construction of the fiberglas mold and hull. Also shown are descriptions and photos of various process details.
Ship's Log , a chronicle of recent adventures, including dissection of a heavily used Stuart Swan steam engine.
Steam Engines, "D"-Valve: observations from steaming a Stuart Swan model engine in my full-sized boat.
Steam Engines, Poppet-Valve: the latest on the evolution of the Bohaboy poppet valve steam engine design into the Pelfrey-Haas Sea Sprite
Vaporizing Burners: A bit of my LONG learning curve, concerning boilers and firing methods. Nowadays I use wood...

My Model Steamboat Pegasus, Jr.

The Model steam turbine Project I will (eventually) describe my design of a variable-angle-inlet-nozzle which acts on a CNC-machined turbine rotor. I'll post test results when I get the bugs worked out...

...and I'm not the only one! Here are links to other Steamboaters.

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