April 14, 2010
The bad news is that Capt. Erik had to have an operation. He doubled over in pain a few weeks ago and through the use of modern technology it was determined that Erik had a hole in his #2 overboard discharge. He has been having stomach pains for about 20 years but nothing that didn’t clear itself up almost immediately. Dr. Chao at Group Health did the operation, taking out 8 inches of bowel. He is home and healing well and the real pain has almost gone away and the patient is chomping at the bit to get back into it and get back on his favorite tug. The doctor says in the next couple of weeks that Erik can remove the hose clamps. If you want to pick on him his E-mail is capteof@aol.com
ERIK WITH BEARD AND DAD WITH MUSTACHE
MARINA MAY,THE PATIENT. MARK & MARGIE.
CAPT. ERIK AND SPENCER HAVING A GOOD LAUGH. YOU WILL NOTICE THEY BOTH HAVE ON HARD HATS AND SAFETY GLASSES.
Capt. Deep Sea Tom Bulson and crew Keegan ‘Brutus’ Brown and Al ‘Bullseye’ Wylie have been covering well for Erik and they haven’t missed a job. Deep Sea has been in salt water a lot lately and has had his share of winter weather like winds gusting to 50 knots in Port Townsend. I always kid Tom when I call him on the cell phone and say “do you have the periscope up” because he always has the DIXIE decks-to. Thanks to our man in Agate Pass, Ben Sias, for the nice pictures of the Dixie charging along in flat water with the sun out. It was blowing hard westerly down Saratoga Pass and Capt. Tom said there was an 8 foot chop running at Elliot Point on the flood. It is hard to get rough weather pictures.. it seldom looks as rough as it is.
OUR DIXIE IN AGATE PASS. PHOTO BY BEN SIAS
SHIFTING AT FVO
IT GETS REALLY NARROW WHEN YOUR TOW IS 40 FEET WIDE.
DIXIE SHIFTING K-SEA'S PARAGON.
PARAGON IN STABBERTS' DRYDOCK.
CAPT. ERIK WITH STINGER PUSHING ON PACIFIC STAR AT STABBERTS.
OAK BAY CUT AT PT. TOWNSEND. THERE USED TO BE A FERRY HERE WITH A 2-CYLINDER WASHINGTON 30 HP.
CAPT. DEEP SEA TOM AT HOME ON THE DIXIE.
DIXIE IN HEAD SEA.
Z BIG NAVY TUG.
COAST GUARD ESCORT FOR CARRIER.
PAUL "CHIPS" BAILEY JUMPING ROPE WITH MARINA MAY.
SIMON JOHNSTON, OUR MAN FROM MANSON.
BATMAN MAKING COPIES HE IS A LOT OF HELP.
Bob Richardson, our man in Coos Bay, sends on pictures of Gus Beaudry standing in the engine room of the tug NORTH BEND and it is just as clean and well painted as the picture shows. When I was in her engine room all I could say was “wow”.
LOOKS LIKES HE IS COMING FOR LUNCH AT BOB'S HOUSE. PHOTO BY BOB RICHARDSON
GUS BEAUDRY IN ENGINE ROOM OF NORTH BEND. MARGIE & I HAVE SEEN IT AND IT REALLY IS THAT CLEAN & SHINY.
Stan Willhight, our man in Whidbey Island, sent me a beautiful silhouette model of the Canadian tug RELIANT tug for my birthday and he freely admits that there is no way you can live long enough to complete all your fun projects and that’s my take on it too. He also told me about a type of model that I had been building for years; it’s called a “SQUINT”. A squint model is one that if you turn the lights down low and kinda squint, well then it doesn’t look to bad. Love it.
RELIANT MODEL BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
HALF MODEL OF TYEE & PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
PACIFIC FOAM IN EVERETT 4-20-79. (AN EX-U S ARMY ST.) PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
THE MIKI TUG POLAR SEA IN SEATTLE 9-20-79. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
STANDFAST (EX-ARMY ST) 8-79. I RAN HER UP THE COAST FROM PORTLAND IN 1972. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
CHIPPEWA OUTSIDE THE LOCKS 3-8-79. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
DUNLAPS' SUIATTLE AT ASTORIA 10-27-08., PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
SEA RANGER IN THE LOCKS 1-13-83. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
AMERICAN CONSTRUCTIONS' TULALIP (EX- ARMY ST; SISTER TO STANDFAST) WITH A 343 CAT 2-8-2010.
MONMOUTH AND BARGE IN LOCKS 4-22-79. I USED TO TAKE THE HEAD END OF HER OIL BARGES IN THE LOCKS. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
MARILYN (EX-IVER FOSS) 400 HP ENTERPRISE IN THE LOCKS. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
NANCY BEAR (EX-NANCY FOSS; EX-CALCITE) AT LA CONNER. PHOTO BY STAN WILLHIGHT.
Our man in Maine, Bill Page, sends on wonderful pictures of his troller yacht the MALVINA. Margie & I saw it under construction in his big shed – what a work of art! The wood in her is just beautiful as he used several different kinds of wood that make the boat jus sing. I told him that the boat should be varnished and go directly to a museum. Bill has just acquired a new Hundested single-cylinder diesel of 39 HP and you should hear the tale of it. I can’t even begin to relate where the engine has been but maybe we could talk him into writing it up. Oh, and it is for sale. Also he has included a picture of a new steam engine that Bill Lowe has built up at Rockland, ME – where the fog never clears off in the fall.
BILL PAGES' NEW HUNDESTED ONE CYLINDER; 39 HP DIESEL. NOW FOR SALE FAX: 207 354 6297
NEW STEAM ENGINE BUILT BY BILL LOWE IN ROCKLAND, MAINE. PHOTO BY BILL PAGE.
BILL PAGES' NEW TROLLER YACHT HE BUILT. PHOTO BILL PAGE.
JACOB PIKE - WONDERFULL OLD SARDINE CARRIER; NICE LINES. PHOTO BY BILL PAGE.
PATRICA WILSON AT PORTLAND, MAINE. PHOTO BY BILL PAGE.
SAMPSON ALONGSIDE LOG RAFT IN SE ALASKA. PHOTO BY KEITH STERNBERG.
More bad news: my computer died – the dreaded blue screen appeared and when it passed it took 10,000 out of 44,000 words I had written on my in-progress book “Lifeboat Station Sailor” with it. No way to get them back, even though I had saved it along the way – unless I wanted to spend a few thousand on it. Al Wylie said ‘Mark, it’s time.” So Margie and Al and I hot foot it over to Office Max and cough up for a new Windows 7 version which takes a little getting used to, but I sure like it.
Now the important stuff: On the TV show ‘Survivor’, Russell survived Boston Rob and Coach, but I think that is a mistake at this time. ‘Ax Men’ is just wonderful: J R Browning is back on course with a new contract and Craig at Rygard Logging threw a fit and walked off the job and the diving loggers are just a hoot; it seems like I know all these fellows from my past…
I can’t seem to catch up on my e-mails so be patient with me I have too many irons in the fire.
CORRECTION: We called out the tonnage on Foss’s front end loaders last time at 40 tons. Since then we’ve learned they are 50 & 60 ton loaders! Go get ‘em!
Send me your tugboat photos & you’ll get your name in lights! And, I’m still looking for the Cheryl Ann model.
Your man in Seattle,
Fairtide Mark
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