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Monitor
Plans PDF^*

$50.00 USD

Monitor

Specs

Length Overall	22'
Length Water Line	21' 10"
Beam	6' 8"
Draft	1'
Displacement	4,950 lbs
Engine	see below
Boiler	4 - 7 HP Ofeldt

PLANS	$50 USD

For the person who wants a "distinctive" steamboat, the Monitor will definitely fit the bill. Like the original, she has very low freeboard and is best suited for calmer waters. Construction of the hull is even easier than Traveler.

The detail work (which can make this boat a real "showpiece") is in the above deck coaming and pilothouse.

Powering can be as with Salty, and since Monitor is over 1,000 lbs. lighter, she should move faster than her namesake.
5 HP Compound Engine, or
6 HP Double Simple Engine, or
7 HP Triple Engine

Plans are complete, detailed, and include table of offsets.

3D model of the original Monitor, civil war-era vessel

And an actual photo... (Yes, they had cameras that long ago...)

From the movie Sahara (2005), a US Iron Clad is found in the Sahara
Trust me: that never happened! (Well, that we know of... ☺)

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6HP Double Simple

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7HP Triple Expansion

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^* All plans are "shipped" electronically, as PDF files. If you do not have a PDF reader (software to let you look at, even print, a PDF) you can go to adobe.com (never use a PDF reader that wasn't made by adobe, the inventors of PDF), or click here: the One True Adobe PDF Reader - Download.

(Personally, we would turn off their "free offers" prior to clicking the download button [those are for non-Adobe products], but that's your call.)

BTW: "PDF" stands for Portable Document Format. It's just a secure way (the secure way, actually) to move documents around electronically.

HP (in this context) means Horse Power. (Of course you know that; just being thorough.) It's a unit of power equal to 550 foot-pounds per second or 735.5 (or 746 -- believe it not, opinions vary) watts, and is the usual measure of the amount of work an engine can do.

Oddly enough, not that closely related to the amount of work a Horse can do! (Go figure.)
See Does one horsepower really equal the power of one horse? (at www.carkeys.co.uk) for more information on that subject.