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Post by EGfleet on Feb 10, 2010 14:59:32 GMT -8
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Post by EGfleet on Apr 14, 2010 8:09:01 GMT -8
A few brief seconds of the Silver Slug...
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Post by Kahloke on Apr 14, 2010 8:12:17 GMT -8
These are great videos! The Kalakala (albeit brief), Klickitat, San Mateo, Swartz Bay, and Vashon - keep 'em coming, and thanks for sharing.
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Post by northwesterner on Jul 4, 2010 23:44:13 GMT -8
Sometimes, I just wonder if she'd have been best left alone to rust away on an Alaskan beach...
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Post by lmtengs on Jul 5, 2010 4:44:25 GMT -8
Sometimes, I just wonder if she'd have been best left alone to rust away on an Alaskan beach... She'd have probably popped off the beach during a storm and caused a floating nuisance all over Alaska, then the authorities would definitely call for her scrapping...
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Post by Barnacle on Jul 5, 2010 6:56:18 GMT -8
She'd have probably popped off the beach during a storm and caused a floating nuisance all over Alaska, then the authorities would definitely call for her scrapping... I doubt it. She had about a third of a hill holding her in place, and she was above the high tide line.
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Post by SS Shasta on Jul 14, 2010 16:10:11 GMT -8
I keep wondering what is keeping her afloat today. Do they have pumps running day and night to prevent her from taking a plunge? Will the State or City of Tacoma soon have another expensive mess to clean up? Anyone remember the old ferry Ballard on Lake Union?
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Post by EGfleet on Jul 14, 2010 18:06:45 GMT -8
I keep wondering what is keeping her afloat today. Do they have pumps running day and night to prevent her from taking a plunge? Will the State or City of Tacoma soon have another expensive mess to clean up? Anyone remember the old ferry Ballard on Lake Union? Yeah--me. ;D www.evergreenfleet.com/mvballard.html
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Post by mike3121 on Sept 18, 2010 12:58:30 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 18, 2010 17:17:09 GMT -8
Great models, Mike!
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Post by BreannaF on Sept 18, 2010 22:25:26 GMT -8
Very nice pictures there!
...but it does leave me with one question for the experts: We tend to see all of these historic ships in monochrome because that is how our pictorial history was preserved. My question for someone a year or two older than me (or more knowledgeable on the subject) is: How shiny was the Kalakala?
The picture in my mind is pretty bland looking, but her current state is pretty bland looking. SO, just how pretty was she?
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Post by FNS on Sept 18, 2010 22:47:43 GMT -8
I have courteously resized Mike's photos to fit this forum's 800. Very neat work, Mike! KALPIC-3 KALPIC-2 KALPIC-4 You can still click on the original links above for the larger sizes on Mike's photo server.
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Post by BreannaF on Sept 19, 2010 13:31:46 GMT -8
OOoooohh....
She was a nice shiny bauble. ;D
Thank you for that....
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Post by mrdot on Sept 19, 2010 15:06:57 GMT -8
in the far reaches of my memory our junior hi. school group did a trip to Pt. Angelis on the shinny, what looked like an inverted bathtub Kalakala. A pic. that Evergreen posted of the ship docked at the old black ball dock which was shared by Washington State Ferries back then took me back all those years in my youth. Later it became the first headquarters of BC ferries and the upper offices are where I went for my first interview for the new QPR, as the top brass of the ferries were located it that office block, back then. Another year after the Kalalaka trip we did a similar trip on CPR,s Princess Joan over to P. Angelis. I remember how it rolled terribly across the strait. I think they were both holy rollers! I will try to stick to these anacdotal memories, and please forgive me for my out of character rants of the past several posts. mr.dot.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 27, 2010 15:39:02 GMT -8
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Post by mrdot on Feb 26, 2011 14:17:34 GMT -8
:)looking at EG's vintage clips of the forward enlarged portholes of the Kalakala, puts me to mind of today's Norad Greek wonderboat of our northern waters of BC. I don't believe she will give the years of service that Kalakla gave. May the good lord grant me a few more years to prove this out! :)mrdot.
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Post by BreannaF on Mar 8, 2011 19:54:46 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Mar 9, 2011 18:15:32 GMT -8
I notice there aren't any dolphins on her berth. Why is this? Did dolphins not come into use until later years?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2011 21:42:57 GMT -8
It's more than likely because it was easier to to back out of the berth (slip) and tie up alongside the terminal in those days. Sometimes there could be as many as three ferries tied up in there. They called it the "hole". My Dad said that he watched the Malahat back out of the slip on evening to tie up in the "hole" and it took her three attempts to get in. She was so hard to maneuver and steer. He worked for Blackball in the 1940's on the Seattle - Bainbridge route.
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Post by SS Shasta on Mar 10, 2011 11:59:41 GMT -8
I clearly remember that week of 1 July 1967 when I took the train from Spokane to Seattle for one final ride on "the Great Silver Slug." My family and I took her to Bremerton from Seattle and back for what was scheduled to be her final day of service.
This actually wasn't her replacement day. The new MV Hyak broke down on her first or second week of service and MV Kalakala was called back for several days of additional of service. I don't remember if her sale was actually delayed by this situation.
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Post by Kahloke on Mar 18, 2011 18:19:29 GMT -8
Ah, yes - the famous double-horseshoe bar. Excellent photo! Thanks for sharing it.
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Post by SS San Mateo on Mar 25, 2011 20:26:22 GMT -8
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Post by Kahloke on Mar 26, 2011 12:44:32 GMT -8
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Post by Neil on Mar 26, 2011 16:01:07 GMT -8
Does this Rodrigues clown even make sense to himself? He hasn't been able to raise money to even make a start on repairing the Kalakala on a non-profit basis, and now he's going to do it on a business basis? What a joke.
Whether it's the Kalakala, the San Mateo, or whatever, ferry fans have no business buying ferries, because they're incapable of an unbiased assessment of the boats' place in the public consciousness. We get nice old boats turning into disgusting, unsafe eyesores on our shores and sullying the public's memory of them. All because someone's sense of perspective and depth of pockets didn't equal their ego and pipe dreams.
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Post by mrdot on Mar 26, 2011 16:41:22 GMT -8
:)neil's comments on the plight of Kalakla, may seem harsh, but he's right on, when you think of several attempts both here and across the line, how awfull the junk pile of San Mateao and Sidney look up river, and the outcome of all other fond memories is as bleak! Realistically only small managable peices of nautical vessels seem at all practical, and the costs of upkeep of very successful save's like HMS Belfast, are now in question! the climbing costs of maitenence seems a worldwide problem, on many heritage sites! :'(mrdot.
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