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2009 Week 17 in Review
OTM Inc in Illinois I spent most of this week in the middle of an Illinois corn field, but it sure felt like the bilge. The worksite is called “the bottoms,” a huge area about ten feet below the Mississippi … Continue reading
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2008 Week 48 in review
Work continues on the Catalyst This week at Old Tacoma Marine Inc, I spent most of my time on the Catalyst, continuing this year’s big winter maintenance project. I did a lot of cleaning this week, mostly on the cylinder … Continue reading
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2008 Week 47 in Review
Maritime networking at Brunch I occasionally host brunch for 200 or so of my closest friends. Lots of maritime folks came to last Sunday’s brunch. Brian the shipwright, Grant the captain of the Thea Foss, Diana the maritime museum specialist, … Continue reading
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2008 Week 46 in Review
We took the rest of the main bearings out of the Catalyst this week. Bill and I rolled them out two at a time to look at them, clean them really well, measure them, and take pictures: Then we’d roll … Continue reading
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2008 Week 45 in Review
I worked all this week on the Catalyst, continuing the big winter project. I started out by measuring the crankshaft to figure out whether or not the journals are egg-shaped (which could, if you remember last week’s entry, be one … Continue reading
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2008 Week 36 in Review
This week aboard Catalyst, we dropped off passengers at Wrangell and then took the boat to Ketchikan to start the 12-day Inside Passage trip. Summer is over here is Alaska, so it was time to bring the boat back to … Continue reading
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2008 Week Two in Review
Engineer for a Day Program for High Schoolers Early this week, OTM Inc received a call requesting another Engineer for a Day session for Ballard High School. We put one on in February of last year, which was both successful … Continue reading
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