Last weekend was the Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend. Old Tacoma Marine representatives spent some time listening to the pop pop pop of the Elmore’s exhaust – keep that Atlas running!
A visit to the train museum
On Saturday, I took a trip out to Mineral, Washington to see if they still had an old [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘atlas-imperial’
September 20, 2009
2009 Week 38 in Review
June 28, 2009
2009 Week 26 in Review
20Work continues on the Arthur Foss
This week, I continued to work on the Arthur Foss’s Washington, working with OTM’s mechanic Crystal. We started the week with two big challenges to work on 1) make a tool to drive out the very stuck air-start valve, and 2) put the very heavy cylinder head back onto [...]
June 7, 2009
2009 Week 23 in Review
Still scraping bearings
OTM Inc spent most of this week scraping and fitting rod bearings for the Indian Grave Drainage Pumphouse’s Fairbanks-Morse diesels, and making some fine adjustments to the main bearings. I did this with much relief, after getting satisfactory results when testing the main bearings.
Report on the MV Tuhoe
Old Tacoma Marine Inc’s intrepid [...]
June 4, 2009
The M.V. Tuhoe, icon of Kaiapoi
By Jacoba Charles, OTM Inc Investigative Reporter
The twin Atlas-Imperial engines of the M.V. Tuhoe rattle in well-tuned percussion as John Thompson, one of the ship’s chief engineers, eases on the throttle. The engine room is tidy, and the fixtures are color-coded with bright, glossy layers of paint to help newly trained volunteers.
Emerging to the deck [...]
April 19, 2009
2009 Week 16 in Review
This week, I replaced the batteries on the Maris Pearl. They are really heavy, and so OTM Inc had its first insurance claim this year. I chipped two of my teeth while we were pushing the heavy cart up the gang way – the handle smacked right into my mouth. I look [...]
March 29, 2009
2009 Week 13 in Review
More work on the Maris Pearl
This week, OTM Inc started work on the Maris Pearl’s bilge system. Not too much to report there.
Update on the Lightship #83
Northwest Seaport is getting ready to start the big deck replacement project on the Lightship #83, and they asked OTM Inc to research and compile a list of [...]
March 22, 2009
2009 Week 12 in Review
This week, OTM stopped by the old ferry Skansonia to photograph its Fairbanks-Morse diesels. Maintenance guy John was happy to show us the engine room and let us poke around two great old mains:
Steven at the Evergreen Fleet has a nice history of the Skansonia that he’s posted here. Here’s a summary:
The Skansonia [...]
February 15, 2009
2009 Week 7 in Review
Work continues on the Catalyst
This week at OTM Inc, we double-checked the Catalyst’s main caps, just to make sure they weren’t too tight. The main caps are the top half of the main bearing, and on Washington Iron Works engines, they sit right on top of the crankshaft. During normal operation, the caps [...]
