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For some of you that have see her in Tacoma Hylebos Creek Waterway and wonder why they have not started working on her here's why. Chuck
Our State permit for "Cleanup" took us 3.5 years to get, and it is a small
word for a big little job. Not all cleanup is complete but 50%-60% is done.
This is defined as only cleanup. And, no shipyard activities or major work
can be started where the Kalakala is today on the water at her moorage space
in Hylebos Creek Waterway, Tacoma, WA.
"What the State defines as cleanup, can include and is limited to,
pre-shipyard activities above the water line without any exterior
superstructure ever being touched. All the exterior superstructure is defined
as "major works" and must go to a certified shipyard with a State permit for
completing all exterior superstructure and below waterline hull repairs and
painting. This is why she looks so bad today. And, our citizens do not
understand why nothing is being done on the exterior. We are waiting for the
$700,000 Save America's Treasures grant to take her to the shipyard. Let's
HOPE, after the 3rd application, we finally are awarded the funds this year!
Such "Cleanup" includes; removal of all electrical lead cable, overhead
electrical conduits and mechanical piping, any lead paint pealing from walls
and ceiling, rusted plating on decks, removal of windows and frames,
constructing airtight walls in preparations of sandblasting interior
walls-ceilings-decks(for containing airborne sandblasting contaminates),
stripping interior walls within flying bridge deck
(Captains-Engineers-and-crew quarters) and wheel house, and weather
protection. There are a lot of miscellaneous materials and temporary
construction items on board that will need to be removed or shifted prior to
sandblasting specific areas inside the ship on all decks above and below to
auto deck.
Our State permit for "Cleanup" took us 3.5 years to get, and it is a small
word for a big little job. Not all cleanup is complete but 50%-60% is done.
This is defined as only cleanup. And, no shipyard activities or major work
can be started where the Kalakala is today on the water at her moorage space
in Hylebos Creek Waterway, Tacoma, WA.
"What the State defines as cleanup, can include and is limited to,
pre-shipyard activities above the water line without any exterior
superstructure ever being touched. All the exterior superstructure is defined
as "major works" and must go to a certified shipyard with a State permit for
completing all exterior superstructure and below waterline hull repairs and
painting. This is why she looks so bad today. And, our citizens do not
understand why nothing is being done on the exterior. We are waiting for the
$700,000 Save America's Treasures grant to take her to the shipyard. Let's
HOPE, after the 3rd application, we finally are awarded the funds this year!
Such "Cleanup" includes; removal of all electrical lead cable, overhead
electrical conduits and mechanical piping, any lead paint pealing from walls
and ceiling, rusted plating on decks, removal of windows and frames,
constructing airtight walls in preparations of sandblasting interior
walls-ceilings-decks(for containing airborne sandblasting contaminates),
stripping interior walls within flying bridge deck
(Captains-Engineers-and-crew quarters) and wheel house, and weather
protection. There are a lot of miscellaneous materials and temporary
construction items on board that will need to be removed or shifted prior to
sandblasting specific areas inside the ship on all decks above and below to
auto deck.
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