‘The Funnel’, the SBA’s quarterly journal,
arrives on members’ doormats at the beginning of
March, June, September and December each year.

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The current edition is number 193, shown here. 

Funnel 193 has now hit members’ doormats. It is again a 90-odd page edition full of  information, updates on this and that and some useful how-to-do-it material too, along with historical pieces.  

As ever, the SBA journal is assembled with a view to providing something of interest to steamboat enthusiasts of long experience or of none at all.  Here are just a few of this month's articles:

Maid of Scrap – a history (part 2) Pete Cuthbert 

Work Days onboard Sir Walter Scott John Hendry 

Reed’s Hints to Sea Going for Engineers Richard Havard 

The Steam Tug Challenge

Pole position Mark Rudall

No Rules for assembling a Steam Launch Richard Havard 

A Blast from the past compiled by Andy Hopper 

Tug to Table Bay: Part 1 John Young 

Eccentricity Roger Calvert 

Simple Valve Gear Setup Paul Smith 

Wood Burning Grate Design Kelly Anderson USA

Lubrication Kevin Slater

Injectors demystified submitted by Richard Havard 

Why We Hydro Michael Cross USA

A design in Pictures: a trailer draw bar extension Andy Hopper 

Each edition aims, as ever,  to set a few useful ‘hares running’ on different topics to attract readers’ opinions in new articles or letters because ‘Funnel’ exists to give everyone a voice.

Contributions should be sent to: Honorary Editor

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For more Funnel contents, see the Cumulative Index, or the Back Issues Archive.

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