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Bruce in Bangkok[_11_] Bruce in Bangkok[_11_] is offline
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Default Time to buy that boat?
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:03:07 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:09:10 -0500, jeff wrote:

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

Not the original engine. They put in a Diesel to make the movie.
Current engine is a 15hp twin. Written up in Boating.

Casady


Interesting. I had always assumed that it was just a boat that someone
built for the movie company as the story was fiction so there wasn't,
I believed, an "original" African Queen". I always thought the name
was supposed to be rather grandiose to underline the rather derelict
condition of its owner.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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