Steam Plant Design
Some of the steam plant design can be seen below.
The design is running a little behind schedule, but work is proceding well and I hope to have it completed before the end of 2007 so work can begin on the chassis/sump which will hold the engine and pumps together as an assembly ready to be dropped into the hull.
The Steam Plant
Basically I have all the bits I need for the steam plant. This drawing is a scheme and there will be quite a lot of work to be done once the hull is fabricated because I think it would be impractical to design every detail on a 2D drawing package.
It can be seen from the drawing that the condenser is quite a bit larger than needed for the work this engine will be doing (approx 6-7HP). It is entirely stainless steel with about 100 x 1/2" cooling tubes. I hope to be able to have it shortened by a third before the hull is finished.
The condenser along with the prop (31"dia x 48"pitch), foot feed pump and many other bits and pieces including the boiler came from Monarch when she was converted back to diesel.
Unfortunately all but the prop and boiler were stolen when thieves hammered through the concrete section wall of my lock up in summer 2008.