EDITOR’S NOTE — See related story today, “SOLD! Westport buys former Port Angeles Walmart building; site will house shipyard’s cabinet shop” — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150816/NEWS/308169970
MANY FAITHFUL READERS and constant water-watchers alike have contacted me to ask why the Chevron lightering ship Pegasus Voyager is still at the Port of Port Angeles’ Terminal 1 North.
I posed the question to Chevron spokesman Jeffrey Moore, and he said most of the repairs to the Pegasus Voyager’s controllable pitch propeller (CPP) system are complete.
However, some of the CPP hub components that were under warranty were sent to Japan to be repaired by the manufacturer.
Those parts were expected to arrive in Port Angeles this past weekend, and the process of reassembling the CPP will begin in earnest.
Chevron anticipates that all repairs will be completed during the final week of this month or the first week of September, at which time the vessel will return to the San Francisco Bay Area to resume lightering operations.
Oil spill course
Last week, the Marine Spill Response Corp., Tesoro Petroleum, Coast Guard, Global Diving and Salvage and one or more oil spill response organizations from British Columbia participated in an oil spill control course in Port Angeles Harbor.
As I understand it, participants in the annual Pacific Northwest Oil Spill Control Course received classroom and hands-on training over several days in the various methods of controlling, containing and cleaning up oil spills on water and on shore.
A dirty job, but not only are their people willing to do it, they are very good at it.
According to Jay Cline of Clallam County Fire District No. 2, more than 40 students and instructors from around the U.S. and Canada attended.
Wooden boat club
Last week, I spoke with Andrew Thompson, a fairly recent attendee (2011-12) of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock.
“Dru,” as he is known to many, is a shipwright in Port Angeles who would like very much to organize a wooden boat club in Port Angeles for wooden boat enthusiasts.
Dru said the goal is to provide an opportunity to share information, resources and enthusiasm for wooden boats of any size to anyone interested, whether they own a boat or not.
Anyone interested can send Dru an email at druattahoe@gmail.com.
Harbor watch
On Monday, Tesoro Petroleum provided bunkers to British Courage, an LPG carrier that is flagged in the United Kingdom.
The 755-foot vessel came to Port Angeles from Yokosuka, Japan, and is currently underway to Ulsan, South Korea.
On Friday, Tesoro bunkered Vinjerac, a 640-foot Croatian-flagged petroleum-products carrier that came to Port Angeles from Acajutla, El Salvador.
On Saturday, Tesoro sent its refueling barge to Seattle, where it will refuel Ruby Princess, a 948-foot cruise ship that will spend the next few months taking guests on cruises to Alaska.
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David G. Sellars is a Port Angeles resident and former Navy boatswain’s mate who enjoys boats and strolling the area’s waterfronts and boat yards.
Items and questions involving boating, marina and industrial activities and the North Olympic Peninsula waterfronts are always welcome. News announcements about boating groups, including yacht clubs and squadrons, are welcome as well.
Email dgsellars@hotmail.com or phone him at 360-808-3202.
