IMG_8132 - Port Townsend WA - Shipyard - Shipwright's Co-Op - MV RIPTIDE - engine hoisted out and re4sting in pilothouse- Volvo MD-70A
RIPTIDE was repowered in 1967 with this Volvo MD-70A diesel engine. It had a reputation as a reliable, easy-to-maintain engine throughout its service in the boat. Unfortunately, the oil pan for this engine is completely shot, and a new one will have to be fabricated if the engine is to stay with the boat.
RIPTIDE was built in 1927 by the Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, then located on the north end of Lake Union at the foot of Stone Way in Seattle. She is 47 feet long with a beam of just over 11 feet and a draft of approximately four feet, planked in port orford cedar riveted to white oak frames over a douglas fir backbone. I don't know what her original power plant was (and I've had no luck as of this writing in finding out), but by the time she was acquired by the owners before me in 1965 she was driven by a Chrysler Royal gas engine. She was repowered in 1967 with this new Volvo MD-70A diesel engine.
(December 7th, 2015: The old Volvo was scrapped, and a new Cummins B210 installed in RIPTIDE).
The first stage of her restoration began April 8th, 2015 when she was lifted out of the water at Port Townsend WA for hull and engine work by the Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-Op.
IMG_8132 - Port Townsend WA - Shipyard - Shipwright's Co-Op - MV RIPTIDE - engine hoisted out and re4sting in pilothouse- Volvo MD-70A
RIPTIDE was repowered in 1967 with this Volvo MD-70A diesel engine. It had a reputation as a reliable, easy-to-maintain engine throughout its service in the boat. Unfortunately, the oil pan for this engine is completely shot, and a new one will have to be fabricated if the engine is to stay with the boat.
RIPTIDE was built in 1927 by the Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, then located on the north end of Lake Union at the foot of Stone Way in Seattle. She is 47 feet long with a beam of just over 11 feet and a draft of approximately four feet, planked in port orford cedar riveted to white oak frames over a douglas fir backbone. I don't know what her original power plant was (and I've had no luck as of this writing in finding out), but by the time she was acquired by the owners before me in 1965 she was driven by a Chrysler Royal gas engine. She was repowered in 1967 with this new Volvo MD-70A diesel engine.
(December 7th, 2015: The old Volvo was scrapped, and a new Cummins B210 installed in RIPTIDE).
The first stage of her restoration began April 8th, 2015 when she was lifted out of the water at Port Townsend WA for hull and engine work by the Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-Op.