
ISS MEMBER BOATS
A BOY'S WILL - Earl Morse in Maine
ADELAIDE - Captain Don Fenstermacher, Sr. on Lake Nockamixon, PA
AURORA BOREALIS - Al Dunlop at the shores of Lake George, NY
CAPTAIN BELL - Dave & Jan Bell in Wheeler, Oregon
CLASSIC STEAMBOAT CRUISES - Cruise Melbourne's Yarra River, AU
DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH - One hour steamboat tours of Picton harbor, NZ
ELPENOR - David Ayers' boat in the UK
MIDSHIP22 BLOG - Thierry Febvret, Versailles, France
MY SIDEWHEELER - Ken Brockway in Cohoes, New York
NEW ZEALAND STEAM SCENE - Russell Ward & his S.L. Romany
No name yet - William Gill in Troy, New York
OTASELL - Wally Mounster in Hobart, Tasmania
OTTER - Bart Smaalders in the San Francisco Bay area of California
PEGASUS - Ed Hass in Santa Rosa, California
RaMi - Rainer Radow builds a small steamboat
SALTY - Rogers Machine builds a steel steam tug near Detroit
SENTA - Roger Calvert in England
SPLASH - Bart Hoebel, Lambertville, NJ, steam sternwheeler classroom
STEAM OUTBOARD - Wally Mounster in Hobart, Tasmania
TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE - Peter Cowie's Elliott Bay Engine build
FORUMS
Boiler Forum - hosted by a retired steam pipefitter
Chesapeake Steamboat Forum Group - S.T. Baltimore / Chesapeake Bay.
Classic Steam Engine Engineering Forum - lots of good "build it yourself" info
Fulton's Followers - Group building a replica of the Clermont's engine.
HasBrouck Engines Group - Yahoo group for building HasBrouck engines.
Steam Whistles - for those interested in steam whistles.
Steamboat eGroup
The Steamboating Forum - has space for pics!
CLUBS, MUSEUMS & ORGANIZATIONS
S.T. Alwyn Vintcent - preserving South Africa's last steam tug
Amateurs de Bateaux à Vapeur (French Hobby Steam Boaters)
Association for the "La Palma" Steamer Restoration
Clermont State Historic Site Home of the Bicentennial of Fulton's Clermont
Delaware River Steamboat Floating Classroom - What it says
Deutscher Dampfboot Verein (German Steamboat Society)
S.S. Elfin and S.S. Jacob Langeberg
Finnish Steam Yacht Assoc. - lots of lakes, lots of firewood, 80 steamboats!
Historic Sternwheeler Preservation Society - paddlewheeler links!
International Association for the Advancement of Steam Power
Muskoka Steamship & Historical Society
Kinetic Steam Works - what can I say - they're in California!
Mystic Seaport Museum - Home of S.S. Sabino
New England Wireless and Steam Museum - excellent links page!
New Zealand National Maritime Museum - operating steamboats.
Nomadic Preservation Society - preserving the last White Star vessel afloat.
North American Steam Boat Association
Northwest Steam Society
Norwegian Veteran Ships Club - S.S. Styrbjörn and S.D. Børøysund
Oregon Maritime Center & Museum - sternwheel tug Portland
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
Steamboat Association of Australia
Steamboat Association of Sweden
Steamer Virginia V Foundation
S. S. Master Society
Steam Tug Baltimore
Vapores del Atlantico S.L. (Steambark Hidria II)
Vereingung Schweizer Dampfbootefreunde (Swiss Steamboat Society)
Vereniging Stoomvaart (Dutch Steam Society)
Windemere Steamboats & Museum
PERSONAL SITES
Hobby Steamboaters Web Ring
Juneau Steamboat Company - Juneau, Alaska, tours by steamboat
Kent Lacey - photos, articles, steamboating stuff!
The Legend of Steamboatin' Deutschland
MIDSHIP - in French and in France
New Zealand Steam Scene
Oriane - Laurent Marchal
Rainer Radow's Steam Boat Page - lots of good info
Riverboat Dave's Paddlewheeler Site
Richardson Bay Steamboat Renaissance of the 1960s
Rivermen & Riverboats
Stanley Steamers - Several pages on hobby steamboats
Steam esteem - Great info on marine boilers, fuel, problem solving
S.L. Firedance - Bob Shearer
S.L. Min Deern - Elliott Bay hull, Pearl engine & Ofeldt boiler in Germany
Steam "Yot" Tryall and S.L. Lisa Ann - Rolly Evans
steamboats.org
STEAMLINKS - What the name says, with over 100 online-reading steam books.
Triple Expansion Launch Engine - Building the Elliott Bay engine
Whistleman
EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
A & K Enterprises - small valves, injectors, atomizing oil burners...
ACS Engineering - model marine steam plants; custom engineering
Astragal Press - The Whistle's Moan, The American Steam Gauge
Atkin Boat Plans - some potential steamboat hulls.
B2Ånga - in Swedish, but "Ång" = steam and "bat" = boat
Beckmann Boatshop - everything you need to build a hobby steamboat
Bjorklund Steam - manufacture an 80mm x 80mm engine.
Boothbay Railway Village - machining services and code boiler work
Calvert Technical Press - "Steam Engine Principles", "Steamboating Guide"...
check-valves.net - the name says it, and lots of 'em
Colonial Iron Works, Ltd. - engines and boilers in Kiwi land
Connecticut Antique Engine Restoration - steam engine restoration
Crosby Organ Pipe Steam Whistles - and other Crosby reproduction components
Creative Marine - builders of the Frolic range of launches
Davey & Company London Ltd - LARGE selection of marine hardware and fittings
Elliott Bay Steam Launch Co. - engines, boilers, boats & books
Essex Brass - this is the lubricator page, but there's much more
Fuel Efficiency, LLC - make Brock Turbulators for firetube boilers
gartside.com - Paul Gartside, designer & boatbuilder
Gray Barn Machine Shop - calliopes, whistles, restoration
Green Velvet - Steam Engine Lubrication Specialties (small quantities)
HasBrouck Engines - plans for engines without castings
Heritage Steam Supplies - packing, gaskets, tube brushes
Herron Rail Video - trains, traction engines, steamboats
The Knotted Line - fenders, mats, bell lanyards, monkey's fists...
Lee W. Pederson - steam and antique gas engine parts
Lindsay's Technical Books - "The" Lindsay book folks, online
Martin Model & Pattern - cast iron flywheels from 3" to 60"
Michael Porter - marine design; does steamboats
Midwest Model Steam Products - Select "BH-2" at the page top/left
Mosquito Enterprises, Inc. - hulls, engines, code boilers
Myers Engine Works - excellent steam powered duplex feed pump kit
Northeast Controls - relex gauges in many sizes and pressures
Old Time Tech - produce an excellent and authentic steam siren.
Pearl Engine Co. - single & twin cylinder engines: castings, machined, assembled
Perfectly Pretty Comfy Clothing Company - period clothing
Pop Pop Boats - get started small or add a tender to your 16 footer
Port Townsend Foundry - a full service nonferrous foundry
Preston Services - used steam boats and marine engines
Quest Tek Solutions - Relex gauges and fittings. Rappahannock Boat Works - from "bare" hulls to complete steam launches
Reliable Steam Engine Co - engines, boilers, accessories & boat plans
Selway-Fisher Design - hull designs
Steamshop - major distributor for valves, gauges, burners, liquid level controls...
Strath Steam - engines
Stuart Models - Again offer castings sets for the Nos. 1, 5A, 6A marine engines
Sustainable Village - Steam Engines section, but many other interesting products
T. J. Williams Ltd. - sensing gauges w/custom dials
Tecalemit - centralised pressure lubrication systems (bearings, crossheads)
Techantiques.com
Tiny Power - engines
Traditional Boatshop (Elegance Launches) - complete boats
United Brass - All the valves you need
Western Locomotive Supply - whistles and whistle parts
Wilkie Steam - 70mm x 70mm no castings engine
MISCELLANEOUS
Early Steam Engines
Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading - good info on hobby steam and metalworking.
MarineWaypoints.com
Mother of All Maritime Links - make a large pot of coffee!
The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors
sail-the-net.com - six data bases linking to all kinds of marine stuff.
Silva Bay Shipyard School - near Nanaimo, British Columbia
Steam Launch Artemis Website Design - custom website design.
Twain Times - diagram of "working" sternwheel engine.
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