I have a friend that has a steamboat and he helped me get my boat constructed. Don had the engine castings which he sold to me and he also got a lead on a hull for the boat, which you see in the above picture.



The hull is a lifeboat from the WW2 Liberty Ship, Simon Willard.

Here we are hooked to the boat and

ready for a weekend of steamboating

I have been working on this project since 2002. There was a lot of machining and welding to do. Machining the engine required about one year and completing the boiler took 4 months. Cleaning and painting the hull,building the trailer was another 6 mo.



The last two years was spent mostly just refining and correcting some problems that have cropped up.

The boiler is completed and ready to install

Finding the balance point for the boiler so the

boat will float on an even keel

What's New?

Here I might add an entry whenever I make an update to my web site. Where appropriate, I'll include a link to the change. For example:

11/1/01 - Added new photos to Vacation Album page.