Business as Usual
This week, we are back in the shop cleaning, reading the Local Agency Guidelines Manual for the Lightship #83 project, and working on the website some more.
We’re working hard to get pages about all the known remaining Washington Iron Works and Atlas-Imperial diesel engines up on the web. Don’t worry diesel [...]
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September 7, 2009
2009 Week 36 in Review
This week was my last cruise aboard the MV Catalyst and was a short hop from Petersburg to Ketchikan. We left Petersburg early Sunday, and sounded the siren in front of Doug’s house (he owns the Katahdin). After a 12-hour run, we anchored in Myers Chuck, a neat little place looking out to [...]
September 7, 2009
From the Archives: Old Ferries Never Die
Old Ferries Never Die
By Holly Hughes
November 5, 1986, The Weekly
For people who lived in the San Juan Islands, the Vashon was more than a link with the rest of the world; she was part of the family. If the history of Puget Sound is woven of sky and water, then she was the needle, stitching [...]
August 9, 2009
2009 Week 32 in Review
This week’s cruise aboard the MV Catalyst was from Petersburg to Taku Harbor, stopping at Scenery Cove, Sheldon Cove, West Brother, Sanford Cove, and Fords Terror along the way.
We picked up our people in Petersburg and got back in to Frederic Sound. Finally! Two weeks away and I’d missed it. Captain Bill [...]
August 2, 2009
2009 Week 31 in Review
This week’s cruise aboard the MV Catalyst was from Craig to Petersburg, stopping at Port Mayoral, Squam, Whale Cove, Dry Pass, Labouchere Bay, and Kah Sheets Bay along the way.
In Craig, we took our one last chance for a wifi signal and a greasy breakfast, then went to pick up our cargo. The document [...]
July 26, 2009
2009 Week 30 in Review
This week’s cruise aboard the MV Catalyst was from Petersburg to Craig, stopping at Labouchere Bay, Devilfish Bay, Spanberg Island, Anguilla Island, Port Real Marina, and Trocadero Bay.
On Sunday I hung onto the cell phone reception until the very last minute while leaving Petersburg. I have a much harder time leaving Seattle these days: [...]
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 21, 2009
2009 Week 25 in Review
This June is a very busy month for Old Tacoma Marine Inc. Right after last week’s great Diesel Engine Theory class, I got back on an airplane for Illinois.
Back to Quincy
I got back in to Quincy and the Indian Grave Pumphouse to pick up where I left off two weeks ago: setting up the [...]
June 14, 2009
2009 Week 24 in Review
OTM Inc spent most of this week working on the Arthur Foss’s Washington, but first:
Update on the Lightship #83
Following our successful preparation of a Preliminary Engineering Report two years ago, Northwest Seaport has asked OTM Inc to submit a bid to serve as project manager for the Lightship Rehabilitation. We assembled our project management [...]
