Steam powered sternwheeler ( first boat build ever )

[Robert Hornby]

Hi Peter,
I have just joined the forum and Derek pointed me to your post as a club I joined is about to build a steam paddle wheeler ferry. Congratulations on both your skills at model making and the informative words and pictures on the forum. All your work will assist us greatly in our efforts and will safe a lot of "reinventing the wheel."
Good work Peter.

[apointofview]

Robert,
Sorry for the delay in responding I havent been checking up on this log very often. Thanks for the kind words ! If I can help in anyway feel free to ask. I'm no expert you have seen the only boat I have ever built.  Good luck with your project, I would love to see it as it is built.
Pete

[apointofview]

A little update about what my boat is doing.  I used my new trailer to launch the Liberty Belle and it worked great.  It sure was nice not having to lift the boat at all !!

Here is a video from that day.
https://youtu.be/YSkRFOK9aj0

Pete

[DamienG]

That's marvellous Pete. 

[Delaunay]

Bonjour;
Vidéo magnifique l'on croirais un vrai de vrai bateau ... sauf comme toujours le sifflet un peu trop claire .
Mais quel régal 
Cordialement

Hello;
Video beautiful one would think a real one boat ... but as always too clear whistle.
But what a treat: no1b
cordially

François

[apointofview]

I hope you all are not sick of my boat, I just like to share it with others that appreciate what it is !
I came across this body of water that looks like a stream but its really an extension of a pond. Thought my riverboat would look at home here. Its deeper than 8ft so if I sank I would be in trouble but everything went well.
Here are three videos, I really need to learn to splice stuff like this together and edit it into one movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UczvVGXaR0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXrlema3iIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6Efw0GtE8

Pete

[Delaunay]

  Hello !
Belles vidéos, on imaginerais des scènes de la vie d'un autre temps 
En regardant votre chaine de vidéos, celle du système de remisage dans le garage est digue d'un professionnel 
Trop beau !!!!!
Beautiful videos we imagine scenes from the life of another time: bravo
Watching your video chain, that of the storage system in the garage is dam of a professional: trophy
Too handsome !!!!!
François 

[apointofview]

Hey Guys !

This may not be all that cold to some of you, but for me here in Georgia USA its chilly, I thought global warming would make my winters nicer

Anyway I hauled out my sternwheeler to see how good the exhaust would look on a cold day. I was delayed an hour or so which dropped the humidity 10 percent and raised the temp 5 degrees. I really liked how the boat looked on the water with all the steam everywhere. Next weather event to shoot a video in will be fog !! Kinda hard to request fog on my off day though.

Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVm-UziOA8&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z123djtwnnzwgrsi004chhnxawu1gburalg0k

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hey Pete.......

That steam exiting your stern wheeler is without doubt the greatest example I have seen in any model steam powered vessel....Congratulations 

Is that a shelia standing on the upper stern deck overlooking the wheel?.......if so she'll get steam in her eyes....

Have a happy and safe festive season with your family..........

Derek

[DamienG]

Love it Pete well done. 

[Hankwilliams]

Hi Pete,

the scene looks like a part of Joseph Conrads "Heart of darkness"! Phantastic!

Thomas

[Delaunay]

  Hello ;
Top of the top navigation in situation.
I happened more than 10 times the videos (especially the last) and I dream of a long journey on unknown rivers on such a boat.
Bravo.
cordially
François

[apointofview]

Thank you all !!!
The Liberty Belle sure did make quite a steam display !! I am thrilled with how well it performed I was a bit worried the boiler would have trouble in the cold but it worked fine, I guess the 1/4 inch thick ceramic insulation did its job.
I have never had the boiler draft blower steam show up exiting the smoke stack before. During the warming of the boiler the steam exiting the stack looked so good I turned up the rate for the blower to get more steam just for the show.  What I did not take into account was the increased water usage this would cause.  It wasn't till after I was stranded on the pond and had to use the electric backup jetdrive to get to shore that I figured out what happened, I ran the boiler out of water    The feedwater pump couldn't keep up with the water consumption, turns out that the blower setting is critical 

Derek, I think everyone onboard was covered by steam a few times during that cruise,  I'll bet traveling on those full scale boats was a bit messy for the passengers and crew !!

Thomas - I will have to look up Joseph Conrads Heart of darkness you've got me curious

I really like anything steam powered, not sure why but it's great to watch, I sure wish I could generate this kind of heat and steam volume on a cold day -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8MIXXDPls&feature=youtu.be

Pete

[Hankwilliams]

Hi friends,

in May 2015 I put some posts in this heading of my sternwheelers "Ville des Bruges" and "Zambezi". Now I improve the last one, the "Zambezi".
I wasn`t satisfied with primitive oscillating engine on a sternwheeler.
Now I `m altering this engine with Regner and home made parts to a piston slidge engine. Also at the boat are some alterings are necessary, because both engine units needs more space than before. I hope the altering will be successful...

Thomas

[kno3]

Very interesting engine. Did you build it?