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Post by Elwha on the Rocks on Aug 27, 2015 17:09:30 GMT -8
So yesterday when I was bringing my family's boat back into Fairhaven I was very surprised to find the Kaleetan getting painted next to the drydock! Here's a few pics of the Kaleetan getting painted as viewed from the water. -Please excuse the awful quality of these pics, I only had my I-Phone with me to take photos with.  View of the bow (or in this case I guess you could call it the stern too since it's not going anywhere.)  You could tell that there was lots of action aboard:  |
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Post by PeninsulaExplorer on Aug 28, 2015 18:53:08 GMT -8
So yesterday when I was bringing my family's boat back into Fairhaven I was very surprised to find the Kaleetan getting painted next to the drydock! Here's a few pics of the Kaleetan getting painted as viewed from the water. -Please excuse the awful quality of these pics, I only had my I-Phone with me to take photos with. View of the bow (or in this case I guess you could call it the stern too since it's not going anywhere.) You could tell that there was lots of action aboard: I wonder if they are going to fix her "Flying T" logo. |
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Post by Barnacle on Aug 28, 2015 21:00:06 GMT -8
I wonder if they are going to fix her "Flying T" logo. Well, it'll be a new decal... what was wrong with the old one? |
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Post by hergfest on Aug 28, 2015 23:11:38 GMT -8
The Flying T wasn't centered on the stacks. It was positioned lower than the three other Supers.
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Post by Barnacle on Aug 29, 2015 8:38:15 GMT -8
The Flying T wasn't centered on the stacks. It was positioned lower than the three other Supers. So nothing actually wrong with it, then. Just a matter of aesthetics.  That's the historical location of the Flying T from back when the old Toll Bridge Authority stripes were flying on her stacks. I'd have thought the board would approve of the nod to the Good Old Days.  |
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Post by crashlament on Sept 15, 2015 15:14:57 GMT -8
The Flying T wasn't centered on the stacks. It was positioned lower than the three other Supers. I think the uncentered flying T is cool. Whenever I see it I can tell the difference between her and the other Supers. |
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Post by Barnacle on Sept 16, 2015 19:03:00 GMT -8
The Flying T wasn't centered on the stacks. It was positioned lower than the three other Supers. I think the uncentered flying T is cool. Whenever I see it I can tell the difference between her and the other Supers. Now that you mention, it *is* hard to tell the Kaleetan and Yakima apart. The Elwha's got those holes in the side for the depth-charges (the supplemental IBAs for the Sheldon Coopers) and the Hyak hasn't had the pilothouse window mods (neither has the Elwha, but I digress). Has anyone spotted a facepalm-simple way to tell the Kaleetan and Yakima apart, without resorting to just looking at the nameplates? |
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Post by Kahloke on Sept 16, 2015 19:14:47 GMT -8
Has anyone spotted a facepalm-simple way to tell the Kaleetan and Yakima apart, without resorting to just looking at the nameplates? At a quick glance, no. The "Flying T" logo uncentered in the white band on Kaleetan's funnels is the quickest and easiest way to tell her apart from Yakima currently. But, if they reposition that logo during the re-painting process, and center it like on the other vessels, then it will be more difficult to tell the vessels apart. The length of the nameplate will be the next best clue at that point, as well as the name on the bulwark. Kaleetan's name is positioned closer to the end. Outside of those two elements, it gets trickier to spot the differences, but here are a couple of pics showing Kaleetan and Yakima. Knock yourselves out!   |
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Post by SS San Mateo on Sept 16, 2015 19:27:22 GMT -8
If you look at the just the ends of the boat, there are two noticeable differences:
(1) On the Kaleetan, the clearance signs are in yellow signs. On the Yakima, they aren't (the font size is much bigger on the Yakima as well).
(2) On the Yakima, the vertical "yellow with black stripes" areas on the bulkheads near the bottom of the ramps are much taller.
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Post by Barnacle on Sept 18, 2015 13:08:28 GMT -8
(3) it appears that the big vent cowl on the upper deck between the stacks are 90 degrees out from one another.
...but so far all the differences we've spotted require being close enough that we can read the name. :-D
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Post by rwbsparks on Sept 18, 2015 22:39:47 GMT -8
Hi everyone, this is my first post to the forum, I've been following it for a while. I noticed that the Kaleetan has a window underneath the funnel next to the entrance to the galley that is missing on the Yakima. The Yakima just has an open space.
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Post by Barnacle on Sept 19, 2015 6:22:35 GMT -8
Hi everyone, this is my first post to the forum, I've been following it for a while. I noticed that the Kaleetan has a window underneath the funnel next to the entrance to the galley that is missing on the Yakima. The Yakima just has an open space. So it does! The window next to the upper mens' room entrance/galley entrance has been filled in. I knew there would be SOMETHING. |
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Post by Olympic Ferries on Oct 17, 2015 13:50:52 GMT -8
Does anyone happen to know why the Kaleetan is out of service today?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 17, 2015 15:13:09 GMT -8
Does anyone happen to know why the Kaleetan is out of service today? She is out of service for necessary repairs. I do not know the nature of those repairs. Source: From HERE |
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 22, 2015 12:39:29 GMT -8
22-Oct-2015: a few pics of Kaleetan in rich Passage from my favourite Bremerton ferries viewing place at Manchester State Park Kaleetan was re-painted this last summer. I would have thought they would have re-positioned the DOT logo on the stack to be centered in the white area, but it remains in its original position of being centered on the funnel, but not in the white band. My designer eye still cringes at that, but I suppose it's a good way of telling Kaleetan and Yakima apart.    |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 29, 2015 7:35:26 GMT -8
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 29, 2015 9:07:01 GMT -8
Cool photo. Thanks for posting it. If you look through the tunnel, you can see the hydraulic barrier gates at the other end of the vessel. They abandoned those in the 80's because of issues with them, and went back to standard chain barriers, and later, the net barriers you see now. I do remember a time in the early 80's when those hydraulic gates were left in the "up" position before being removed.
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Post by sounder on Oct 29, 2015 10:04:49 GMT -8
Cool photo. Thanks for posting it. If you look through the tunnel, you can see the hydraulic barrier gates at the other end of the vessel. They abandoned those in the 80's because of issues with them, and went back to standard chain barriers, and later, the net barriers you see now. I do remember a time in the early 80's when those hydraulic gates were left in the "up" position before being removed. I also remember the "Issaquah" class boats starting their careers with those hydraulic barrier gates. They only lasted a couple of years on those boats. I am not completely sure by the time the Sealth entered service if this vessel had those hydraulic barriers? I remember in the late 80's when the whole fleet was switched over to the net barriers, it was very odd not to have the sound of those chains rattling around as we were docking. That was kind of a staple of WSF for me. Those people that fell asleep in their vehicles during the trip, those chains acted like an alarm clock |
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Post by Barnacle on Oct 29, 2015 17:57:33 GMT -8
I remember that dock very fondly, though it wasn't in anywhere near that kind of condition by the time it was removed in 2003... I was on the last trip out of the old dock. The new dock is much nicer to work with, but it doesn't have anywhere near the aesthetic value. |
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Post by Barnacle on Oct 29, 2015 17:59:10 GMT -8
Cool photo. Thanks for posting it. If you look through the tunnel, you can see the hydraulic barrier gates at the other end of the vessel. They abandoned those in the 80's because of issues with them, and went back to standard chain barriers, and later, the net barriers you see now. I do remember a time in the early 80's when those hydraulic gates were left in the "up" position before being removed. I also remember the "Issaquah" class boats starting their careers with those hydraulic barrier gates. They only lasted a couple of years on those boats. I am not completely sure by the time the Sealth entered service if this vessel had those hydraulic barriers? I remember in the late 80's when the whole fleet was switched over to the net barriers, it was very odd not to have the sound of those chains rattling around as we were docking. That was kind of a staple of WSF for me. Those people that fell asleep in their vehicles during the trip, those chains acted like an alarm clock Those very barricades came up in conversation today at work. My source recalled the barriers on the Supers and Jumbos being pretty stout, but they had a tendency to leak hydraulic fluid. The barriers on the Issaquahs, not so sturdy... I got the impression that they were as 'low bidder' as the rest of the boat. |
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Post by Luke on Oct 31, 2015 19:27:25 GMT -8
I got to ride the Kaleetan today. Some upgrades she recieved during her refit: New Paint:  New Nameboard  New Signage, showing just how reliable her machinery is now  Some more random images from my trip   Arriving Bremerton  Bulwark Name   Docked at Bremerton  The boat was OOS for several months receiving numerous upgrades. Why couldn't they have taken five minutes to replace this deplorable fleet guide?  Pulling out of Seattle from behind the Elwha |
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Post by Barnacle on Nov 2, 2015 5:12:19 GMT -8
I got to ride the Kaleetan today. New Nameboard The boat was OOS for several months receiving numerous upgrades. Why couldn't they have taken five minutes to replace this deplorable fleet guide? I'm going to bet the nameplate is probably just refinished. I'll check on the replacement of the fleet guide; it might be a shipyard warranty item. More likely it wasn't in the contract. Seriously, though, new fleet guides are harder to come by than you might expect. I haven't seen one with the Olympic class on it yet (though I'm sure they're out there). |
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Post by FNS on Nov 2, 2015 10:05:56 GMT -8
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Post by FNS on Nov 30, 2015 22:28:43 GMT -8
 Just received a slide recently. This is of a Superferry being finished at National Steel of San Diego. The slide photo was taken in August of 1967. I think this was most likely the KALEETAN. As you can see, she was well protected by all those Navy ships.  A bit blurry and out of focus, this zoom shows the ferry still having "battleship gray" on the car deck side. After she was all painted and systems ready, sea trial sessions awaited for her. Then, the long coastal voyage to her home on Puget Sound. All while meeting the Coronado ferries CROWN CITY, SAN DIEGO, CORONADO II, SILVER STRAND, and NORTH ISLAND in the acts. To the unknown photographer, we credit and thank you for this good photo. |
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