Dedicated to steam yacht

It's possession of the name board that differentiates a restoration from a new build. With the nameboard comes all the history of that boat. 'Her' exploits from times gone bye are attributed to the boat even though none of her component parts may have been present when the events took part. I've been on yachts that I know have been complete new builds (except perhaps for a frame or some internal furniture), only to be told about how this boat did during Cowes Week in the 1920's, etc.

It's the same situation with historic aircraft. There are plenty of companies that will build you a Spitfire for about £1m. But if you own the manufacturer's plates from a crashed aircraft, then your (brand new built from scratch) aircraft is a restoration and with a heroic history, can be worth more than the build cost. However if you don't have an original manufacturer's plate, then your (brand new built from scratch) aircraft is a replica and may not even be worth its build price.

History is worth money and is the reason why old aircraft are enthusiastically dug up from foreign fields and old hulks are dragged out of their mud berths. Frequently neither offer anything to the 'restoration' process except provenance.

 

Naval Architect Andy Davis writes one of the most interesting and honest blogs around, he did quite a bit on the reconstruction (replica?) of Cangarda....it's quite interesting to follow his various posts on her.......I gather they spent about two years getting USCG approval to actually use the boat with the steam engine........

see http://tallshipdesigner.blogspot.com/

 

http://cocatrez.net/Water/FerrisShips/FerrisShips.html

 

Thanks Tad.
Some of the comentaries from Andy Davis about Cangarda inspection by the authorities made me smile, because of the similitudes with what we had to go through when commissioning the vapor vessel Hidria II. Although luckily we did not have to do a presentation to a hundred of them!

Friday at 8:00 am I arrived at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Alameda California. Presence was requested to be present at the signing of the Certificate Of Inspection by the Commander of the operation for the Sector. Quite an event. A full presentation before probably a hundred CG personal, pictures et al.! For three days previous to this the Coast Guard had been completing the inspection of Cangarda. This included the inspection of the CO2 fire suppression system for the engine room, indeed a great thing to have for this vessel, as well as all the other safety equipment. The detail to safety elements was immense. The next day was a test and verification of the system that controls the boiler and burner management. In essence this was like taking your laptop and testing each module on the backplane of the PC to ensure that it communicated accurately to the next. This was a full days effort and highly intense. The third day was sea trials which included the normal testing of the different steering systems (including the tiller) but also demonstrating the use of each of the dinghies and launch. The end included a testing of the pressure relief valves and other items. All along the way you never know if the inspectors will come up with something else they want or if they will ever be satisfied. Finally it was done. After two years of effort to clear our system with the Coast Guard (which was built so well that we did not have to change any systems except one component of the Ethernet equipment) we were to be granted the COI just as they would issue to a thousand foot ship.

Cheers.

 

I wonder what Delta Queen had to go through to get a COI for their two modern paddle-wheel steamships.

 

a nice steam ship

 

click on pic

 

Nice.

 

another good pic

 

another

 

"The Stockholmers steamyachts"

SS Storskär, Build in 1908





and the Norrskär from 1910:





And the SS Blidösund, from 1911, alongside Norrskär





Sorry for stretching, but it's such a nice picture. None of them mine, just from google.

 

Why do they push a tug?
With such a nice old Steamer they should be careful.

 

A mystery to me too. Maybe the tug needed help?

 

the tug wouldn't get out of the way

 

and since the machinist did not expect any traffic, he did not save any steam for the reverse gear?