Anybody have a picture of the M/V SunMar Sea when she was orange and still had portholes? I spent a couple good years aboard but haven’t got a good picture. The Coastal Sea is her after SunMar folded. Signed on just after they wiped the crank bearings out of the old MaK. Got to do the rebuild with f…

Similar to my first command, the Jo-Tor, built in Germany 1954 as Tor for Rederi AB Svea, Sweden, [tor_1954_1] She ended her days as the Iranian owned Hamid during the Iran-Iraq War.

Did that ship still have the cargo gear controls on a belt? Big leather belt that had the cargo runner winch controls and a cable that plugged in nearby. Could’ve done a Peter Pan thing with it. Cable a little too short for real high flying.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: Did that ship still have the cargo gear controls on a belt? That was the first thing we got rid of. Unreliable. Poor visibility into the lower holds, unless the operator leaned over the coaming to look down, which wasn’t the safest thing to do all the time. So we bui…

What about those huge plywood / insulation box-like things they had under the cargo hatch covers? Three or four to a hatch. They had to lift them out to work cargo and put them back in to button up.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: and put them back in to button up. Shouldn’t that be; “batten down”??

Yes, I spent a lot of time working on the plug connections but otherwise they seemed to work ok. Military style din connectors that you had to push out all the pins to repair solder connections. I really recall the whining noise of the hydraulic winches while working cargo.

[image] Kennebec_Captain: What about those huge plywood / insulation box-like things they had under the cargo hatch covers? Those were removed not too long after we bought the boat. The whole reefer system wasn’t optimal for Aleutian cargo ops. It was a blast system, blowing cold air under an…

With the yard and stay rig and the way the hatch plugs were arranged the booms had to be re-spotted for each set of plugs . The crew of the Sunmar Sea was stopping cargo for each passing rain squall and going through whole procedure each time. After a standing around waiting for them to get ready…

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Nope, wasn’t Captain Doug. I understand he was one of Sunmar’s best Captains. I think the Captain you are thinking of was Captain Willard B. I understand it was a quarky ship with stability problems when the upper hold was loaded and the lower hold was empty. Haha.

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Kennebec_Captain May 4, 2022, 6:36pm 68

It was this ship.

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M/V Sunmar Sea

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