Especially in this pix:
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In some cases there were only the keel plates and the Builder’s Certificate left of the original vessel.
@freighterman1 does that last photo show where the “step” was faired in? Only the lower section?
Yep. When we bought here the step was a right angle, or close to it. The keels of both sections were flush, though.
Before fairing you could throw a coffee cup just aft of the step while underway, and it would stay there for awhile, caught in a little vortex which was a drag on the ship. Fairing the steps in greatly helped in speed and fuel economy.
Are you sure on that? The front of the Trader’s superstructure is straight, not curved as shown in this ship. Also, the Trader’s superstructure is much larger.
What a gorgeous boat. They sure don’t build 'em like they used to…
It matches the list of former names and owners (post #36):
M/V SAN JOSE H.van Nood 1963
She lasted only 2 years under that name. Many Owners from 1965 until she became Coastal Trader in 1997. Lots of alterations could have been done in that time.
NOTE: The picture of San Jose is also by H van Nood.
From this website:
https://www.kustvaartforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3386&start=56
PS> Any Builder’s Certificate or Plate seen anywhere on board the Coastal Trader?
Similar to my first command, the Jo-Tor, built in Germany 1954 as Tor for Rederi AB Svea, Sweden,
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.
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 built a masthouse, and mounted on top of it Brattvag low pressure hydraulic winches for the runners, with conventional cargo gear stations for the operators.
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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.
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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.
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 and around the product. We had boats with systems like that over the years, and they were never as efficient as coil systems, so we switched the boat over to that. That, and reconfiguring the cargo hatches so they were smaller, meant we didn’t need the hatch plugs as additional insulation in way of the hatches.
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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 a couple time we told them to just call them when they were ready as it only took us a few seconds to flip our hatch cover open.
Sound likes Coastal made some needed improvements.
1 : to close tightly and securely a tank buttoned up and ready for action
2 : to carry to completion button up an order or assignment
In this case “button up” would mean close and dog the hatch covers. Or with the Sunmar Sea first insert the hatch plugs, then close and dog the hatch covers.
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.
I didn’t hear it from Captain Doug, it was the chief that told me. He might have gotten the story wrong or maybe I did. It was a while ago.
I don’t recall anyone else from Sunmar by name. Did Doug work there till they went out of business do you know?
Nothing like nitpicking a recollection from 35 years ago.
Although my recollections of 35 years ago are often better than recollections from three years ago.
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