Today
Planned Event
01/11/2009 08:59:37
I vote for the tug JENNIE B..
Tug Bandit 1983-958311
| Vessel Name: | BANDIT | USCG Doc. No.: | 958311 | |
| Vessel Service: | TOWING VESSEL | IMO Number: | * | |
| Trade Indicator: | Coastwise Unrestricted, Registry | Call Sign: | * | |
| Hull Material: | STEEL | Hull Number: | 9913 | |
| Ship Builder: | MIDCOAST MAR OREGON CORP | Year Built: | 1983 | |
| Length (ft.): | 25.3 | |||
| Hailing Port: | SEATTLE WA | Hull Depth (ft.): | 5.5 | |
| Owner: | CAMPBELL MARITIME INC 1515 FAIRVIEW AVENUE E SEATTLE, WA 98102 | Hull Breadth (ft.): | 11.1 | |
| Gross Tonnage: | 10 | |||
| Net Tonnage: | 8 | |||
| Documentation Issuance Date: | December 12, 2008 | Documentation Expiration Date: | January 31, 2010 | |
| Previous Vessel Names: | YUKON JACK | Previous Vessel Owners: | SILVER BAY LOGGING INC |
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Meanwhile, the yard continues to build several versions of the original Log Bronc. These diesel-powered boats-used to form and jockey log booms and rafts in which logs are moved to lumber mills-have swivel drives steerable through 360 degrees. Lee said that the company plans to build a fleet of 12 boom boats similar to the Tiny Tim for both sale and lease. Peele said that he already has contracted to handle logs for mills in Alaska. Peele-a veteran fisherman and member of the Haida tribe on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska-also fishes the Haida Girl, a 54-foot limit seiner. Kurt Swanson, a design engineer from Mid-Coast, pointed out that the yard has developed considerable expertise in doing calculations for kort nozzles. The Tiny Tim, with its shallow draft and dish-shaped hull aft, encloses its “square, 38/38 Coolidge prop in a 39-inch diameter steerable nozzle. Swanson said the nimble tug can back up almost as well as it can go forward. The boat is 25 feet five inches in LOA: has a width of 11 feet: displaces 29,000 pounds/: and has a bollard pull of 33 pounds per hp. A single Cummins NT 855, 270-hp diesel drives the propeller through Twin Disc 514 3:1 gears. Access to the engine is through a cellar type lift door forward and through a hatch in the cabin deck. Char-Lynn steering controls direct a Hough-Wagner T-ram steering gear. The Fernstrum keel-cooled engine also runs a 1-½ inch Jasco pump, fitted with an electric clutch for the bilges and mains. Electrical power is supplied by a 24 VDC system with a 85-amp engine driven alternator. The boat will carry 500 gallons of diesel fuel. Mid-Coast craftsmen built the boat of 5/16th and ¼- inch plate with 5/16 th doublers at the waterline for hand line logs. The aluminum house can be removed, as it was for trucking and barging to Alaska. While essentially a day boat, the cabin has a diesel heater, two-burner stove, and a single settee that can be used as a bunk.
We bought a new boat. I didn't want to say anything until I was sure it was going to work out, but everything seems to have gone according to plan. It arrived at the yard today on the back of a low-boy, and is currently sitting on the pier, waiting to be either put on a barge or dropped in the water tomorrow.
Brian And His Crew
It's 25 feet long, 11 feet wide, and it weighs 30,000 lbs. That's without the house on it mind you. The house is aluminum though, so I wouldn't imagine it'd add more than another 1000 lbs. It's got a 300 hp cummins in it at the moment, but that engine's no good. It's seized up, so it will have to be removed. No matter though, I've got a 350 hp cummins lined up to go in it's place.
It's probably headed into drydock with the next factory trawler that's scheduled to go up, at which point it'll get blasted and painted. Before you know it we'll have a pretty good looking rig I should think. If nothing else you'll all get to follow along with the process, much like when we rebuilt the Driftwood. What fun for you.
I was a little worried about the low-boy that was holding our new boat falling through the pier, but as luck would have it everything worked out fine. They've done some pier repairs since that tanker truck fell through a few months back, and they seemed to have worked. It's kind of a different animal though, as a low-boy has a much longer wheelbase than a tanker, so the weight is spread out to many more piling. Either way, it worked.
The new boat showed up pretty late in the day, so Caleb and I spent the morning working on the Blarney. We finished hooking up the constavolt for the 24volt batteries today. Well, Caleb actually did most of it, I just pointed him the right direction as far as how to wire it. I was busy working on my block heater project for the gensets. I got my pieces all made, I just need to paint them now. I thought I had a couple cans of Cat yellow on the shelf, but as it turns out I had Detroit Diesel green, which just won't do for this application. It'll look kind of ghetto if I use the wrong color paint. Not to worry though, I'll get some tomorrow.
We also got one more of the keel coolers partway flushed out. Halfway through that project the new boat showed up though, at which point we kind of got distracted. We'll have to finish it up tomorrow. Our photo for today is of course one of the new boat.It was just getting lifted off the truck, and about two seconds after this photo was taken the truck pulled out from underneath. You'll notice that it has no wheelhouse too. Fear not, we just unbolted the house for the trip across town, so they didn't have to worry about knocking down any power lines.
Caleb and I started off the morning cleaning out the inside of the new boat. With the wheelhouse off of it we've got pretty good access to the whole thing, so we thought we'd see how clean we could get things. It was pretty greasy and filthy inside, which was to be expected I suppose. The nice thing about that is that all the grease and oil keeps everything from rusting, so once you scrape it off you usually find near perfect steel underneath.
This was no exception; we found a lot of nice steel under the grease, although we were getting rather filthy. As luck would have it, a Marvac truck showed up not too long after we got started to clean out some tanks on the boat next to us. We pleaded with them to come clean us out when they were through with the other boat, and they were kind enough to hook us up. I should explain what a Marvac truck is. Marvac is the name of a local company that has a bilge cleaning service. They show up with a tanker truck, and a very large pressure washer that blasts hot soapy water all over the place. They clean out your engine room, bilge, etc, with the pressure washer, and the tanker truck slurps up all the debris and goo. When they're done you have a spic and span bilge for the most part. It took them about an hour to do what would have taken us three days.
I think tomorrow we'll probably pull the engine out of the boat, maybe pull the propeller shaft out, and basically see how much trouble we can get into along those lines. I'm pretty sure we'll be getting a new engine rather than rebuilding this one. What I'm more concerned about is whether or not the gearbox has any problems. We may need to turn it over to Mike the Mechanic for a once over.
I suppose I could have worn my rain gear, but I just never found the time to put it on. It's probably just as well, as miserable as we were I'm pretty sure we built some character. Anyhow, we started off the day by removing the propeller from the prop shaft. It can be a fairly difficult job, depending on how good of a job the guys before you did when they fit the prop to the shaft. If they just jammed it on it can be a real pain in the ass to get back off. Whoever did this one did a pretty careful job of fitting it, because it didn't take too much work to get it loose. A little bit of work with the puller, a little bit of heat from the torch, and off she came.
Once that was done we worked on getting the engine out of the boat. We had to break loose the coupling bolts between the reduction gear to start with. That was also kind of difficult, but we managed. Before you knew it the crane swung over, grabbed the engine, and that was that. The engine and reduction gear weigh just about 4000 lbs, in case you were wondering. Our next task is to get the inside of the hull squeaky clean, and more than likely give it a coat of paint.
The Engine Bed
Fuel Tank
Finally In The Water
Bandit At Work
Snow In Seattle
How Many Inches Of Snow ?
