Comments on: Oldest complete steamship SS Robin is demasted and towed away for restoration http://intheboatshed.net/2008/06/30/ss-robin-the-oldest-complete-steamship-is-to-be-restored/ Gavin Atkin's weblog about great boats, boatbuilding and restoration Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nishani Kampfner http://intheboatshed.net/2008/06/30/ss-robin-the-oldest-complete-steamship-is-to-be-restored/comment-page-1/#comment-13597 Nishani Kampfner Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:56:00 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=2870#comment-13597 Delighted to read about your interest in SS Robin. We'd love to see the photographs, Gavin....regards the restoration of the engine, for reasons too lengthy to go into the funding package we secured does not include any mechanical restoration however we do have a wonderful volunteer programme and hope to get her steaming again in the near future. We're updating the website daily with pictures of the operation - www.ssrobin.org, click on the news link for the latest. Nishani Kampfner Co-Founder SS Robin Trust Delighted to read about your interest in SS Robin. We’d love to see the photographs, Gavin….regards the restoration of the engine, for reasons too lengthy to go into the funding package we secured does not include any mechanical restoration however we do have a wonderful volunteer programme and hope to get her steaming again in the near future. We’re updating the website daily with pictures of the operation - http://www.ssrobin.org, click on the news link for the latest.

Nishani Kampfner Co-Founder SS Robin Trust

]]> By: Gavin Atkin http://intheboatshed.net/2008/06/30/ss-robin-the-oldest-complete-steamship-is-to-be-restored/comment-page-1/#comment-12301 Gavin Atkin Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:13:11 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=2870#comment-12301 From reading the website, it looks as though the planned work is all on fixing up the hull, I'm afraid. Boilers are fantastically expensive to maintain - I know this because an acquaintance happens to own a couple of steam engines. You know the drill Jeff - any time you have the energy, we're always grateful to be able to publish your old photographs! Gav From reading the website, it looks as though the planned work is all on fixing up the hull, I’m afraid. Boilers are fantastically expensive to maintain - I know this because an acquaintance happens to own a couple of steam engines.

You know the drill Jeff - any time you have the energy, we’re always grateful to be able to publish your old photographs!

Gav

]]> By: jeff cole http://intheboatshed.net/2008/06/30/ss-robin-the-oldest-complete-steamship-is-to-be-restored/comment-page-1/#comment-12294 jeff cole Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:38:25 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=2870#comment-12294 G'day Gavin. Will she be a working ship with a steam engine? I imagine volunteer stokers would be hard to find these days! Amongst my photo's somewhere (we're half packed up to move) are some of her contemporaries aground at low tide in small ports being loaded/unloaded from drays. Sailing timber carriers too with hatches in the bows being unloaded on the beach at low tide, with an anchor laid aft in deeper water to winch them off. Jeff G’day Gavin. Will she be a working ship with a steam engine? I imagine volunteer stokers would be hard to find these days! Amongst my photo’s somewhere (we’re half packed up to move) are some of her contemporaries aground at low tide in small ports being loaded/unloaded from drays. Sailing timber carriers too with hatches in the bows being unloaded on the beach at low tide, with an anchor laid aft in deeper water to winch them off.
Jeff

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