IMG_3394 - panorama - Port Townsend WA - Shipyard - Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-Op - MV RIPTIDE - stern tube and deadwood
A panoramic look at the stern tube, shaft and deadwood under the boat.
The garboard seam has been paid, but not yet smoothed out.
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 1-inch long with a beam of 11 feet 10-inches and a draft of four feet. She is planked in port orford cedar riveted to white oak frames over a douglas fir backbone with western red cedar houses. At the time she was lifted out of the water in early April 2015 for her restoration, she weighed 24,000 pounds.
She was originally named NEREIAD, then, shortly thereafter, NOKARE. Her trunk cabin (the raised cabin aft of the pilothouse) was reportedly added in 1933. By 1936, when owned by Russell G. Gibson, a Director of the Seattle Yacht club, she had been named RIPTIDE. Mr Gibson owned her through at least 1960.
RIPTIDE is a Coast Guard documented vessel and carries documentation number 226242 carved into the interior face of both port and starboard bilge stringers. She is documented at 17 net tons and 21 gross tons.
Her original engine may have been a Hall-Scott gasoline engine, but is as yet unknown. By 1959 she had an eight cylinder Chrysler Crown gas engine, a common engine of the time, most likely added in the late 1940's. That engine was removed in 1967 when RIPTIDE was re-powered by a 1967 Volvo MD-70A diesel engine. The Volvo engine was removed in early June 2015 and is being replaced by a Cummins 5.9 liter diesel of 210hp.
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, and should be complete by the end of the first week in September.
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IMG_3394 - panorama - Port Townsend WA - Shipyard - Port Townsend Shipwright's Co-Op - MV RIPTIDE - stern tube and deadwood
A panoramic look at the stern tube, shaft and deadwood under the boat.
The garboard seam has been paid, but not yet smoothed out.
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 1-inch long with a beam of 11 feet 10-inches and a draft of four feet. She is planked in port orford cedar riveted to white oak frames over a douglas fir backbone with western red cedar houses. At the time she was lifted out of the water in early April 2015 for her restoration, she weighed 24,000 pounds.
She was originally named NEREIAD, then, shortly thereafter, NOKARE. Her trunk cabin (the raised cabin aft of the pilothouse) was reportedly added in 1933. By 1936, when owned by Russell G. Gibson, a Director of the Seattle Yacht club, she had been named RIPTIDE. Mr Gibson owned her through at least 1960.
RIPTIDE is a Coast Guard documented vessel and carries documentation number 226242 carved into the interior face of both port and starboard bilge stringers. She is documented at 17 net tons and 21 gross tons.
Her original engine may have been a Hall-Scott gasoline engine, but is as yet unknown. By 1959 she had an eight cylinder Chrysler Crown gas engine, a common engine of the time, most likely added in the late 1940's. That engine was removed in 1967 when RIPTIDE was re-powered by a 1967 Volvo MD-70A diesel engine. The Volvo engine was removed in early June 2015 and is being replaced by a Cummins 5.9 liter diesel of 210hp.
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, and should be complete by the end of the first week in September.
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