I love it and the whistles at the end reminds me of when I was a kid and hear the riverboats whistling at the mouth of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. I still live on the Ohio river between the two but I don’t hear much boat traffic nowadays.
Great video!! but i saw a how-to video on a steam launch that was filmed in lake windermere, but it had a large triple expansion with compound cylinders, but i was wondering if it was possible to do water sport and that crazy stuff, but you never see the part of the haul below the waterline, or the propeller
Back up a bit Richard. Most of these launches are direct drive and if the owner did the math there is not need for gears or chains. What you are hearing that sounds like grinding is the feed pump on an Elliot Bay Triple Expansion engine. If I were to guess I would say the craft is the Steam Launch Whippet. There is a gear on the crankshaft that meshes with another gear that drives the water pump and is in fact what makes the annoying grind. And yes I agree please make it stop.
The boats use a mixture of fuels. Coal, Diesel, Kerosene, Wood, Propane. Coal is "traditional" but oil is reasonably common too. I only know of one burning wood and one on propane. With propane the gas bottles are sat in water to prevent them from freezing.
Though traditionaly such things were very seldom, if ever used. Most engines being directly coupled to the propeller shaft. Known exeption being the Pre-Dreadnaught battles ships of the Otto-Hungaria empire, The first ships of the line to use Turbines, later some few were captured and re-flaged as Austrian, then sent to the battle of the Jutlands (in affrica the fight for the lakes) and sunk.
Yes, there were two well known examples. You'll have to google them. One of the inventors lived in Windermere where this video was filmed, and also designed what is now the oldest ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. His own private steam boat still exists at the Steamboat Museum on Windermere.
Steam engines make LOT'S of tourque, and usualy not much rpm. So to use one for any sort of speed, or high rpms, one needs a very large diameter, pully/cog/or gear, fitted to the Engines crank, turning a very small diameter , pully/cog/or gear, fitted to the driven shaft that turns the propeller.
Great engineering with elegance but worrying to see the lack of life belts being worn its the same as not wearing a seat belt mentality “it ain’t going to happen to me, I know what I’m doing”, glad to see more intelligent use of life preservers being used on the Thames and the Broads these days.
On the Thames you are likely to get run over by another boat or overcome by the filth in the water, not to mention the strong currents. Windermere has almost no currents, and while it is 10 miles long, you are almost never more than a couple of hundred yards from the shore line.
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Wonderful to see all these steamers
I love it and the whistles at the end reminds me of when I was a kid and hear the riverboats whistling at the mouth of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. I still live on the Ohio river between the two but I don’t hear much boat traffic nowadays.
Great video!! but i saw a how-to video on a steam launch that was filmed in lake windermere, but it had a large triple expansion with compound cylinders, but i was wondering if it was possible to do water sport and that crazy stuff, but you never see the part of the haul below the waterline, or the propeller
There has been a guy being pulled behind a steam boat on a large flat piece of wood before.
that was fantastic
It's the best river
Back up a bit Richard. Most of these launches are direct drive and if the owner did the math there is not need for gears or chains. What you are hearing that sounds like grinding is the feed pump on an Elliot Bay Triple Expansion engine. If I were to guess I would say the craft is the Steam Launch Whippet. There is a gear on the crankshaft that meshes with another gear that drives the water pump and is in fact what makes the annoying grind. And yes I agree please make it stop.
what do they use as fuel for the boilers
The boats use a mixture of fuels. Coal, Diesel, Kerosene, Wood, Propane. Coal is "traditional" but oil is reasonably common too. I only know of one burning wood and one on propane. With propane the gas bottles are sat in water to prevent them from freezing.
Though traditionaly such things were very seldom, if ever used. Most engines being directly coupled to the propeller shaft. Known exeption being the Pre-Dreadnaught battles ships of the Otto-Hungaria empire, The first ships of the line to use Turbines, later some few were captured and re-flaged as Austrian, then sent to the battle of the Jutlands (in affrica the fight for the lakes) and sunk.
was there ever a steam areoplane
Yes, there were two well known examples. You'll have to google them. One of the inventors lived in Windermere where this video was filmed, and also designed what is now the oldest ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. His own private steam boat still exists at the Steamboat Museum on Windermere.
I like steam boats because you don't have to worry about motor parts.
Just boiler explosions worn parts do happen on steam ENGINES and sometimes bein scaulded could have its drawbacks lol
Steam engines make LOT'S of tourque, and usualy not much rpm. So to use one for any sort of speed, or high rpms, one needs a very large diameter, pully/cog/or gear, fitted to the Engines crank, turning a very small diameter , pully/cog/or gear, fitted to the driven shaft that turns the propeller.
Great engineering with elegance but worrying to see the lack of life belts being worn its the same as not wearing a seat belt mentality “it ain’t going to happen to me, I know what I’m doing”, glad to see more intelligent use of life preservers being used on the Thames and the Broads these days.
On the Thames you are likely to get run over by another boat or overcome by the filth in the water, not to mention the strong currents. Windermere has almost no currents, and while it is 10 miles long, you are almost never more than a couple of hundred yards from the shore line.
4:04 AAYAYAAYAYA it shows it yaaying hole
wow there all hot~~~~~~~~~~~`full steam ahead there Captain
it's not Grinding, it's some dumb ass over reving their engine.
they obviously have no idea about gearing or chain ratio, to final drive shaft.