'Petagin, Vintage Steam Carvel Launch

'Petagin, 26’vintage carvel launch, built by W.R.Kerrison of Oulton Broad in 1933 to Lloyds Standards for the Commodore of the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club as a fast motorboat.Painted hull built of larch and pitch pine on oak, finished with varnished mahogany decks, seats and transom. She is 26’ long x 6’3”beam and 2’3”draft. Copy of the original builders certificate ON 162971 available for inspection. In 1983 fitted with the steam plant from David Kyle’s ‘Kitten Cat’, comprising of an early 1890’s Mumford compound condensing engine driving a 18”x30” propeller and steamed by a Merryweather ‘B’ boiler, oil fired by Lune Valley type burner. Now made of stainless steel, installed on a stainless steel ashpan. All original polished fittings with side positioned gunmetal spoked steering wheel, bronze skeg and rudder, wood on bronze emergency hand steering quadrant in the rear locker, Windermere kettle, whistle , injector, hand and engine air and water pumps, multipoint mechanical lubricator, hand forged anchor, flags, ropes, mooring spikes, cushions, heavy covers and a range of gauges, oils, fuel etc.Registered with the Canal and River Trust historic boat register no 70725 and National Historic Ships No R702. and was listed in Lloyds Register of Yachts from when first built in 1933 until around 1950. Craft has had recently a full out of watersurvey for insurance in June 2023 with the boiler certificate will and the BSS certificate which allows use on the canals and rivers has been renewed in June 2023. This craft has been maintained by the vendor for over 50 years.