| Saturday September 29th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Picked up the framing and interior wood for our Port side hole in the hull yesterday, so our carpenter (Andrew) can complete the framing phase of our project Monday. The 120' ft of red oak 2x10's for the outside planking is very expensive here on the delta, almost $11 per ft, but I was afraid that we would always be able to see the ''Patch'' if we didn't use the same type of wood grain that was there. We had to order it and we'll have it in late next week. My original thought of replacing 13 or 14 pieces 18-20 ft long wasn't even considered any more (because of $$$) and I hope we'll come out of it with a total cost under $4K for the repair.
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| Tuesday September 25th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We accomplished quite a bit yesterday on our ''Hole in the hull'' project and I have the complete bill of materials from our carpenter to start framing it next Monday. Don Cole did arrive yesterday. We had a short meeting to discuss some of our upcoming projects and he observed (after all, he is a Chief isn't he [GRIN]) some of the work going on with our current fall/winter projects. He didn't stay overnight and left on the 1500 ferry.
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| Monday September 24th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Work today will be centered on helping Andrew (our carpenter) and we hope to visit with him for a quote on a few other projects we have planned.
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| Thursday September 20th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Our carpenter plans on working tomorrow and we've managed to drag the big dock float from out back to allow for a better way of accessing the port side of the ship. It seems like the long hull wood pieces that will have to be removed to facilitate the repairs to the hole in the side is our biggest stumbling block because there are lag bolts and some through hull carriage bolts that must be removed first. The lags have a square head and we want to remove them with an air impact. A standard socket won't fit those square bolt heads so we actually had to have one reworked, or use a thin wall 12 point automotive socket to make it fit.
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| Monday September 17th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We've started our carpenter repairs and it's going to take longer than I had planned, but we're only getting one – maybe two days work (each week) out of our new hired hand, and I want to emphasize that ''Hired'' word because we can't seem to muster up a volunteer base of workers here, and we're being forced to pay as we go forward. Please think about supporting $$$ your museum if you haven't already because we'll be spending more than we'll take in very soon.
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| Thursday September 13th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Our friend John Loarie has passed muster and gave up some sweat equity working on the old girl yesterday, plus he made a rough draft of some video of a few things that he wished to remember. It's unfortunate that he has to leave us, (he's catching the 0800 ferry) but we feel very fortunate to have met him and look forward to his return. John wants to organize a future work party come early spring and it would be great to see that happen.
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| Wednesday September 12th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
John Loarie arrived on the 1300 ferry yesterday. We visited with each other telling some sea stories, and he told me he slept quite well on the old girl last night. We have a small work party organized today to remove some debris down below in the workshop area and after steering.
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| Tuesday August 28th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Had a meeting with a carpenter yesterday and I'll let him quote us on a few things but he does have a four-day workweek with another company so I'll see how that can work out. That's about the only person that's seemed interested enough to work with us so I need to make some things happen.
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| Saturday August 11th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
The folks that owned the Lucid in the mid 80's were over to see the old girl yesterday and have been following our progress. Quite amazed that we've been able to remove so much of the civilian installations that they were responsible for, and bring her back to the old original compartments but recognize that we have a very long road ahead of us. Cote Reese, his wife and sister spent about an hour with us and really enjoyed the tour. They also brought us a few small pieces of original Lucid stuff (light switch and small emergency alarm bell housing) that they removed a long time ago. Cote told a story about one of the guys (a musician) that had an apartment with them on the ship regarding some woodworms that had infested the ship. There was a dry-dock situation where the musician spent almost $100K dollars in treating/exterminating and replacing some hull wood. I'm not sure I understood all of what took place but he told me it got rid of all the worms.
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| Wednesday August 1st, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
George Dean and Bob Green are out early today. Don Cole came on the 1300 ferry and George and Bob stayed over to meet with him. I'm sure they enjoyed their visit and they promised to visit again with a work party next time. Scheduling of MSO work parties hasn't been real successful to date, but there's always work to do here on the old girl and it just means any day can be a work party day, with a heads-up that you want to come out on a particular day (or days) to be productive. We still have a lot of just general cleanup work to accomplish - rigging lights in various compartments - removal of debris – chipping/scraping/pressure wash = paint projects – removal of all the hull (vertical) scrub wood - working on safety issues, along with a tremendous amount of carpentry work to start with.
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| Tuesday July 24th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
George Dean called from N. Dakota and is planning on Wednesday the 1st to visit with us. Our buddy Bob Green is going to pick him up in Oakley and bring him out to the ship. I'm looking forward to seeing both of them again. We've had two days of (part-time) burning of debris that has accumulated on the barge from different removal projects off the ship during the last month. Burning of debris requires various levels of cutting materials up small enough to fit in our dumpster and a full dumpster load takes about three hours to burn down enough to start adding more debris. Also, we have to keep someone there to watch it so it doesn't get out of control.
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| Friday July 20th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
The ship's high and dry, 61 degrees with full shore power. It seems like we had an earthquake a few minutes ago, (0500) at least that's what the TV news folks are saying. I keep a television on during the 4-8 watch on the ship to see what's going on in the world.
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| Wednesday July 18th, 2007 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We heard from George Dean this morning and he's on his way to Bradford Island from Ohio riding his motorcycle. George has been one of our ardent supporters through the days of the Save an MSO Foundation, and on to the Lucid Foundation. He's planning on Portland, OR on the 29th and then working his way to see us somewhere around the 1st - 2nd or 3rd. I'm looking forward to seeing him again and I'll keep you updated when we firm it up. We have some civilian visitors coming this morning for a short walk-through and I always enjoy those because they're normally surprised that the modern Navy had wooden ships. These folks are the friends and family of one of the Bayview Boat Club members (from San Francisco) that have been staying on the island since last weekend.
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