Progress Made On M/V Stikine
Construction
Photos By Dave McNary
September 12, 2005
Monday
Ketchikan, Alaska - Good progress in underway with the new ferry,
the M/V Stikine, reports Dave McNary. McNary who lives on Prince
of Wales in Southeast Alaska was in Anacortes, Washington in
August and visited the Dakota Creek Shipyard where the new ferry
is being built.
McNary has built 26 steel boats
up to 135 feet and is familiar with the construction process.
He said the construction is taking place on modules while the
entire deck and superstructure is being built inside a large
building.
First section of the
bow - upside down.
All the materials come to Dakota Creek pre-cut and primered from
the steel supplier said McNary. The steel supplier gets their
data from the boats designer and with that data they are able
to feed that data into computerized steel cutting machines that
make the parts.
The first section of
the bow and the second section back from
the bow next to each other. Both sections are being build upside
down.
Second section back
from the bow - upside down
The second section back from the bow is built upside down. These
sections are built this way and in separate sections because
it saves many hours of labor said McNary.
Third section back
of the bow - right-side up
McNary said the third section
back from the bow is far enough along that its been turned right-side
up and has also been moved into place on the railway where its
ready to have the other sections joined to it as they progress
to the same stage of construction
Third section back
of the bow - right-side up
Section Four
Section four is far enough
along that it was expected to be moved along with section five
over onto the railway soon. McNary said when they start joining
these sections it will quickly begin to look like something recognizable.
Section 5
Section 5 is one section ahead of the stern section. As you can
see from the photograph, the bottom is starting its rise here.
McNary said he remembers from the construction of the Prince
of Wales that section six isn't nearly as large, in length, as
the other sections. As of the time of McNary's visit he said
they either hadn't started section six or he wasn't able to locate
it.
Sections 4 and 5 sitting
next to each other where they were
constructed in the yard. Section #5 is on the left.
The sides of the wheelhouse
now extend all the way out to
the edge of the vessel ( like wings ).
McNary said the wheelhouse on the Marine Vessel Stikine will
look somewhat different from the M/V Prince of Wales due to a
major change. The sides of the wheelhouse now extend all the
way out to the edge of the vessel ( like wings ). McNary said
this will make docking somewhat easier, especially in bad weather,
as the skipper will to able to walk out to the edges for a better
view.
Entire top-deck with
passenger areas and snack-bar with the entire
wheelhouse above that deck is nearly completed.
The tops of all these sections will be the car-deck, from there
begins the sides of the vessel. McNary said the entire top-deck
with passenger areas and snack-bar with the entire wheelhouse
above that deck is nearly completed. This work is all being done
inside a very large building at Dakota Creek.
Photographs by Dave
McNary ©2005
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