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2009 Week 40 in Review
Field Trip to Friday Harbor and Lopez Island This week, I drove and ferried up to Friday Harbor to pull the valves and injectors from the Catalyst to bring back to The Shop for servicing. Bill and I pulled them … Continue reading
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2009 Week One in Review
Work continues on the Catalyst The New Year finds me still working on the Catalyst‘s big winter maintenance project. I spent most of my time this week continuing to fit in the main bearings. I started to describe this process … Continue reading
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2008 Week 40 in review
A reader question about Enterprises Reader Saúl emailed me for some Enterprise information: Would you know where I can find an image of the logo placed by Enterprise Engines & Foundry on the armor parts they created during WWII? I … 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 17 in review
We started Week 17 with a whirlwind tour of Northwest Washington heavy-duty diesels. San Juan Island has at least one engine from each of the major manufacturers that I work on: Washington Iron Works, Atlas-Imperial, Enterprise, and Fairbanks-Morse — and … Continue reading
2008 Week Eleven in Review
An update from the Maris Pearl This week we pushed to get the Maris Pearl running again to move it back to Shilshole Marina. Once it was good to go, we took the time to change the oil in the … Continue reading
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2008 Week Five In Review
Finishing up the Maris Pearl I finished resealing the No 1 oil tube and put the Maris Pearl’s Enterprise back together – kinda at the last minute (sorry Jay!). The hard part of repairing the oil tubes on the starboard … Continue reading
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2008 Week Three In Review
Meetings about the Lightship Report OTM Inc met with the Northwest Seaport Vice President again this week to discuss the review draft of the Preliminary Engineering Assessment we’ve prepared. The PEA is to be used as a guide on how … Continue reading
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