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 last week, but here’s a picture of the strain test:
That’s the strain gauge stuck [...]
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 am trying to update this list.
I won’t be taking an Enterprise apart until January, so [...]
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 the San Juan Islands. Here’s the first week’s itinerary:
Wednesday, September 3 – Ketchikan [...]
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 that’s not even counting the boats in nearby Bellingham and Anacortes.
Cannery Tender David B
First [...]
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 main engine: all 250 gallons of it. We also changed out the oil [...]
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 side is that the cam followers are in the way. I had to remove [...]
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 best to spend about half a million dollars to rehabilitate the Lightship #83 as a museum [...]
