It must have been '86. Something related to controlling the prop pitch was what I understood.
I was mate on the Snowbird when they called the Coast Guard. I, and presumably everyone else in MF/HF range, listened in on the radio. I was on watch and heard them say they had both anchors down and a full gale was pushing them towards shallow water.
Saw them a few days later alongside at Sand Point in the Shumagins. Never heard how they got there.
There was a Russian trawler anchored outside the 12 mile limit in the Shumagins and the Sea had arranged to take a load from them. They couldn’t go on their own power so we went out to get the load but after a couple hours, change of plans and we ended up making them up on the hip and pushing them out to the trawler and back.
That ship and crew didn’t seem like the typical operation you dealt with in Alaska. At one point the mate told me it was his first trip to Alaska and he was used to working in the Caribbean barefoot .