Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: taxi on September 17, 2007, 11:49:30 pm

Title: puffer vic 32
Post by: taxi on September 17, 2007, 11:49:30 pm

I couldnt pass this by without taking a photo so I nipped home  for my camera.   Vic 32 stopped for a brief rest in the Caledonian canal @ the Muirtown basin, Inverness.   Not many of these oldtimers left but this one is doing work of a different kind,  ferrying tourists around, see the windows on the side of the deck hatch / hold.   Photos taken last Sunday.

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: rats on September 18, 2007, 10:26:35 am

Nice fotos taxi - especially detail of rigging

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: MCAT on September 18, 2007, 01:14:30 pm

Yep  nice pic's  Taxi  lucky to see one in the flesh  not much chance of seeing one down south. any more pic's  ??

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: taxi on September 18, 2007, 04:06:21 pm

Sorry, I don't have any more pics but I will have a hunt around the web at the weekend when I have more time and I will post links to other survivors.

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: Arrow5 on September 18, 2007, 05:51:25 pm

I have a few more taken when she arrived from the West Coast.  More info on www.savethepuffer.co.uk  I had a walk around on board but camera battery gave up so only two pics of engine with it`s new boiler. None of the passenger accomodation in the Saloon which used to be the hold. Check out the steam driven gramaphone on their website !

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: Arrow5 on September 18, 2007, 06:12:27 pm

Re previous post, the model is "MacSpringer", the crew loved it. One more pic of the new boiler on VIC32

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: Colin H on September 20, 2007, 04:39:29 pm

I love the gramaphone but did you checkout the bottles of malt on a shelf in the back ground.

I can just imagine being sat there in the candle light, listening to the music with a large make that very large Speyside in my hand.

PURE HEAVEN.

Thanks for the pics Colin H.

Title: Re: puffer vic 32
Post by: taxi on September 26, 2007, 02:30:52 pm

Surving puffer info,                       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_puffer                  and steam gramaphone    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxLK6vgawk