Hi all about what I'm working on... bringing a boat to the wooden boat show in Mystic Seaport Coneticut. the steam ship Sabino will be open for tours and the...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 24, 2007 12:46 pm
Hi All, Today's home page picture shows stuff that can be assembled from twin wall plastic sheets .375 inches thick, using materials, tools, etc. sold by the...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Jun 24, 2007 2:49 pm
Hi Dan, I like your boats! I wish that I were in a position to purchase one and sail th Hudson. It looks like it would trailer well. I didn't know much about...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 27, 2007 11:06 am
Hi All, Today's picture shows the home page of a small company that sells kits for battery powered R/C model airplanes made of extruded, twin wall ...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jul 1, 2007 11:27 pm
Hi All, Today's picture shows two models built mostly of twin wall corrugated plastic. One is a battery powered delta wing model plane equipped for radio...
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danoyes1
Jul 4, 2007 5:54 pm
Hi all well the wooden boat show was a real treat. quite a bit of interest in the sailing dory I brought, and a possible magazine article, good stuff. I was...
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pop-pop-steamboats@ya...
Jul 4, 2007 6:26 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the pop-pop-steamboats group. File :...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Jul 12, 2007 10:13 pm
I've been invited to join the Rumseian Group on "The Experiment" at the Clermont Site Steamboat Meet on the Hudson River. The group is from Shepherdstown, WV....
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Pete B.
northriver07
Jul 13, 2007 4:25 pm
Hi Frank, Thanks for putting up the sketch of the EXPERIMENT. I replaced it with a photo of the replica. I thought it quite fitting. I learned just this...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Jul 25, 2007 9:19 pm
Need Help! Do any of our members know anything about this "whimsical" model of the Clermont? I found it on E-bay and decided to buy it. The seller was asking...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 3, 2007 10:56 am
Our Home Page photo is of the "FIREFLY" borrowed from Richard Jenkin's Photo Folder. If you have a project under way please consider updating our group on your...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 4, 2007 4:30 pm
No Pete, we are not all sleeping. See hereafter a cut and paste of today's report about the Experimental proof (one more !) of the dissymmetry of a propulsion...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 17, 2007 7:37 pm
Welcome Ken Tait Sr. and D.Walker, I would encourage you to look through the"PHOTOS", "FILE" and "LINKS" sections. There's a wealth of information on the...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 21, 2007 3:10 pm
Not much activity on the forum. Vacation time? After examination of the data of the best engines I know I thought it could be possible to build a very big...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 23, 2007 1:19 pm
Jean-Yves, THANKS! Interesting stuff. Although I don't have anywhere near the knowledge that you have gained through your research I do appreciate your post....
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 29, 2007 12:11 am
Hi Andrew, You wrote: Hi, I am in my 40's father of eleven children and interested in building a full size pop pop boat. well at lest a one man boat. A full...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Hi Andrew, You are not the first to come with the project to propel a real size boat by a pop-pop (or putt-putt) engine. This is interesting in the principle,...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Sep 1, 2007 8:04 am
Andrew, In my previous message I forgot to mention what follows: · The attainable speed is very slow. I have never built (or seen, or read from...
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carlspics
Sep 1, 2007 4:28 pm
Hi, I had heard that several years ago someone made a Pop-Pop engine from the lids of 30 or 55 gallon drums. Supposedly used 8 to 12 one-inch copper pipes. ...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 2, 2007 2:14 am
The Home Page photo shows the 1/2 scale (approx 28 FT) replica of "The Experiment". The Experiment was a steamboat designed and built by James Rumsey in 1787....
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Sep 2, 2007 7:20 pm
Hi Carl, Thank you for your comments. I would like to know more on the big pop-pop engine you heard about. If you could follow the track and post photos and...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Sep 2, 2007 10:35 pm
Hi, Jean-Yves, Pete, Carl and all, I have also seen something about that elusive boat with a pop-pop boiler made of barrel heads and have searched for it...
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David Halfpenny
tuppenced
Sep 2, 2007 11:52 pm
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 12:41 am
Frank, The vortex rings that you mention are similar to the vortex at the end of the wings on aircraft. The addition of winglets minimize the effect of the...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Sep 3, 2007 5:53 am
Hi Pete, Similar maybe, but with opposite effects. Vortices from rigid wings generate drag. Vortices from flapping wings generate lift. Go to...
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David Halfpenny
tuppenced
Sep 3, 2007 9:23 am
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 12:26 pm
Hi David & Frank, It's fascinating how Science can contradict itself. In the case of vortices the configuration and dynamics determine whether they are a help...
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carlspics
Sep 3, 2007 1:43 pm
Jean-Yves, I always enjoy your posts. Sounds like you are an engineer and were involved in some interesting projects. I am a chemical engineer and have spent...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 2:26 pm
Hi Carl, Ditto on Jean-Yves.... I'm not sure that this the "Barrel Head" type boiler that you mention. Check with member Dan Noyes. This is his sketch. He may...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 11, 2007 4:32 pm
[:)] I came across this link at the Steamboat.org site. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share with PAtrick Wentzel, Dan Noyes and any other Carousel...
