Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
S. Y. Persistance steaming under way in the California Delta. Filmed from Lou Pisani's steam launch, September 2017.
"Peristance" is a 40ft long steel steamboat my father built next to my parent's house in Lake Tahoe over the course of 13 years.
She is powered by a Doty Compound built in Ontario, Canada circa 1909 and a "Worthington" style watertube boiler built by John York of St. Helena, California circa 1991.
We steam Persistance in the California Delta year-round and try to get her our almost every weekend. We burn wood, and really really old vegetable oil. Her steam plant is a closed-loop condensing system, so we are capable of safely steaming in salt or fresh water.
For more information on steamboats, to chat with steamboaters, or if you are interested in building/purchasing your own steamboat please visit:
thesteamboatingforum.net
An incredible register of steamboats: steamboating.de
northweststeamsociety.org
steamboatassociation.co.uk
pcez.com/~artemis/NASAhome.htm
https://www.steamboat.com.au/
http://www.vsd-asv.ch/
http://www.association-abv.fr/
http://www.steamboatassociation.se/
http://www.stoomvaart.nl/
dampfboot.de
steamship.fi
kineticsteamworks.org
NOTE! this video or audio may not be reproduced or sampled without my express, written permission. Top 10 lists and other compilations are not "fair use"! More information on copyright and fair use as related to YouTube: goo.gl/8NDLUV
S. Y. Persistance steaming under way in the California Delta. Filmed from Lou Pisani's steam launch, September 2017.
"Peristance" is a 40ft long steel steamboat my father built next to my parent's house in Lake Tahoe over the course of 13 years.
She is powered by a Doty Compound built in Ontario, Canada circa 1909 and a "Worthington" style watertube boiler built by John York of St. Helena, California circa 1991.
We steam Persistance in the California Delta year-round and try to get her our almost every weekend. We burn wood, and really really old vegetable oil. Her steam plant is a closed-loop condensing system, so we are capable of safely steaming in salt or fresh water.
For more information on steamboats, to chat with steamboaters, or if you are interested in building/purchasing your own steamboat please visit:
thesteamboatingforum.net
An incredible register of steamboats: steamboating.de
northweststeamsociety.org
steamboatassociation.co.uk
pcez.com/~artemis/NASAhome.htm
https://www.steamboat.com.au/
http://www.vsd-asv.ch/
http://www.association-abv.fr/
http://www.steamboatassociation.se/
http://www.stoomvaart.nl/
dampfboot.de
steamship.fi
kineticsteamworks.org
NOTE! this video or audio may not be reproduced or sampled without my express, written permission. Top 10 lists and other compilations are not "fair use"! More information on copyright and fair use as related to YouTube: goo.gl/8NDLUV
