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Vashon
Apr 13, 2010 14:04:59 GMT -8
Post by EGfleet on Apr 13, 2010 14:04:59 GMT -8
Here's some footage of the islands, including the Evergreen State and the mighty Vashon. After some discussion we determined it had to have been shot from the Chippewa.
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Vashon
Apr 13, 2010 16:21:59 GMT -8
Post by Barnacle on Apr 13, 2010 16:21:59 GMT -8
A near-eternal source of vexation... I've been trying to get footage of the Vashon for years, and when I finally score some, I almost wish it had been of the Chippewa instead. Or that they would have at least turned around... ;D
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Vashon
Apr 13, 2010 22:08:31 GMT -8
Post by BreannaF on Apr 13, 2010 22:08:31 GMT -8
Pretty cool stuff! Great find. As someone who (for fun, not mental illness ) has conversations in my mind with people from times past, wouldn't it have been interesting to have chatted with the deck crew toward the end of the clip. You know, just to compare their lives and experiences with ours.....
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Vashon
Jan 29, 2012 9:00:25 GMT -8
Post by sounder on Jan 29, 2012 9:00:25 GMT -8
Finding pictures of the Lofall-South point run either in its first or second go around is pretty rare as well. This is a great photograph!
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Post by Kahloke on Mar 15, 2015 19:33:29 GMT -8
I scanned in an old picture of Vashon that my dad had in a frame. Clearly, this is the San Juan Islands because you can see Orcas Island's Entrance Mountain, and Mount Constitution in the background. What is unknown is the date because there are no dates listed anywhere on the photograph. I'm guessing it's sometime in the 1970's, or maybe even the 1960's. Do not know who the photographer was, but it's a cool shot.
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Post by FNS on Mar 15, 2015 20:44:20 GMT -8
I scanned in an old picture of Vashon that my dad had in a frame. Clearly, this is the San Juan Islands because you can see Orcas Island's Entrance Mountain, and Mount Constitution in the background. What is unknown is the date because there are no dates listed anywhere on the photograph. I'm guessing it's sometime in the 1970's, or maybe even the 1960's. Do not know who the photographer was, but it's a cool shot. The radar sets you see were installed in 1978 when the VASHON received a new paint job and a renovated galley. They replaced "enclosed" radar antennas. Given this, the photo you see above was taken in 1978, 1979, or 1980 (her retirement year).
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Vashon
Mar 16, 2015 7:19:25 GMT -8
Post by Kahloke on Mar 16, 2015 7:19:25 GMT -8
The radar sets you see were installed in 1978 when the VASHON received a new paint job and a renovated galley. They replaced "enclosed" radar antennas. Given this, the photo you see above was taken in 1978, 1979, or 1980 (her retirement year). Thanks! I was hoping someone here would be able to figure out a more accurate time frame.
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Mar 16, 2015 10:48:16 GMT -8
Post by FNS on Mar 16, 2015 10:48:16 GMT -8
The radar sets you see were installed in 1978 when the VASHON received a new paint job and a renovated galley. They replaced "enclosed" radar antennas. Given this, the photo you see above was taken in 1978, 1979, or 1980 (her retirement year). Thanks! I was hoping someone here would be able to figure out a more accurate time frame. With the freshness of the paint job you see on the photo, this would likely have been taken in 1978. This would be the VASHON's first regularly scheduled appearance in the San Juans since she was replaced by the then new WALLA WALLA in the summer of 1973 (WALLA WALLA, EVERGREEN STATE, KLICKITAT, NISQUALLY). The VASHON went down to Columbia Beach replacing the OLYMPIC there that summer (KULSHAN, RHODODENDRON, VASHON). From 1973 through 1977, the VASHON held her place as third vessel at CB behind the KULSHAN and RHODODENDRON before programs changed that brought the ILLAHEE and OLYMPIC to CB to join the KULSHAN in 1978 and sending the RHODODENDRON to Keystone and the VASHON back to the San Juans. The VASHON was based in Anacortes during the evenings and mid-day when she did the inter-island trips, 1978-1980.
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Post by Barnacle on Mar 16, 2015 15:32:38 GMT -8
I'm going to eliminate 1980 because by that time, various areas of her shelter decks had been barricaded off (rather than repaired) and those barricades of raw wood are usually visible in photos.
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Post by EGfleet on Apr 13, 2015 8:26:19 GMT -8
Again, just a brief bit of footage, but I doubt there is much footage (or even color photos) of the Vashon in Black Ball livery.
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Vashon
Oct 11, 2015 11:55:28 GMT -8
Post by SS San Mateo on Oct 11, 2015 11:55:28 GMT -8
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Post by FNS on Jul 12, 2016 13:33:19 GMT -8
Found some good videos of the historic tug ARTHUR FOSS's engine. Her engine was built by the same company that built the VASHON's. This is a video of the ARTHUR FOSS. Some engine room action is shown. This video shows the fuel pumps and the flywheel. Nearly the same as what the VASHON had. I loved watching these in action aboard the VASHON, especially the fuel pumps! The flywheel clutch system. The VASHON had one of these at each end of her eight cylinder Estep engine. The wheel action of connecting the clutch was the same. Aboard the VASHON, a turning rod was connected to the flywheel clutch mechanism at the other end of the engine. While the wheel was being turned, a clutch would disconnect at one end while the other end connects (yes, there was a neutral setting in the middle of the turning process). Almost every time I went aboard the VASHON, I would stand at the open hatch at the dockside end of the ferry and wait to watch the clutch engage. It was fun to see! This is the sliding cam shaft aboard the ARTHUR FOSS. Her engine was a reversing type. The VASHON, on the other hand, did not have the sliding cam shaft as her engine turned the same direction from the start of her shift to the end (FWE). The VASHON most likely had a propeller at each end having opposing pitches of each other. The cams moved the exposed rods up and down and activated the rocker arms connecting to the rods to the valves of the cylinders. Air intake, fuel spit (for combustion), and exhaust. An engineer opened up one of these cam hatches for me to see the action during one of my engine room tours aboard the VASHON in the 1970s on the Columbia Beach run. The VASHON's engine was fun to see in action. We are fortunate to see a sister engine in action to show some similarities of the VASHON's Estep engine. Thanks, YouTube, and the operators of the ARTHUR FOSS!
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Post by SS San Mateo on May 3, 2021 17:15:14 GMT -8
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