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Stickleback
STEAMBOAT REGISTER - Edition 8, Jan/12
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Owner: B. Deveson. (SBA member)
Area: North Holland (Netherlands).
Website: www.xs4all.nl/~meijersf/stickleback.htm
HULLDinghy
Built 1986 by G. B. Mouldings at Brightlingsea.
Fit-out 1983-85 by Chris Seago at Norwich.
LOA: 12' 9", LWL: 12', Beam: 5' 1", Draft: 1' 6".
GRP, mahogany deck and interior
Simulated clinker, raked stem, transom stern, maroon with varnished deck and interior, tiller.
ENGINESingle, 2" x 21/8".
Built 1986/7 by Chris Seago at Norwich.
Design: David King, 1.
Valve(s): sv, Gear: Slip ecc..
No. 588/D/18. On 4 columns, fp ecc chain driven at 2:1 reduction, no air pump, Kcond.
BOILERNewton Coil WT.
Built 1984 by D.& R. King at Suffield, Norfolk.
Fuel: coal or wood, Pressure: 150 psi, Grate: 50 sqin, Heating Area: 7 sqft.
No.384A, two steel coils each 10' long, one 2" dia, one ½" dia, hand fp, blower, ½ cwt bunker, ½ gall brass hotwell, 8 gall fw tank.
PROP3 blades, 10" x 13".
Shaft: ¾" SS.
HISTORYNew hull fitted out and plant fitted by Chris Seago at Norwich 1983-85. First steamed 4 July 1985. At first with 1982 built oscillating single cylinder. Laid up 1993, awaiting new boiler.
Bought from J Berry 2002 in Sudbury , trailed home to Holland . Roof and side skirts fitted in the same year, berthed on the Ringvaart, Badhoevedorp in the winter hangs on davits on the same berth.
SBA memberNetherlands
 
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(John Carter) Fens Regatta, 1991

 

 

 

 

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