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Roger Padvorac
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George,
That's the whole point. The generator was past the
end of its life cycle, it would be far easier and less expensive to
replace a generator than an engine, and they still didn't replace
it.
It gives me the heebie jeebies to think of being
involved in a scenario like rescuing a boat drifting towards rocks, at
night, in the rain, in heavy seas, and then suddenly loosing navigation, radar,
and search lights.
When I said: Why don't they just replace the
engines and steering gear?
I was meaning the critical equipment in those
boats is fairly straightforward, and doesn't need to be custom manufactured like
the exotic stuff in a cannery ship, destroyer, or oil tanker. You order the
replacement equipment, remove the equipment past the end of its life cycle, and
install the new equipment.
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All equipment used, where there are life safety
issues, has a defined life cycle, and defined ways of checking to see if the
equipment is past the end of its life cycle. The whole goal of those federal
standards is to help people make plans and then replace the
equipment BEFORE it fails.
Everything I've heard about the coast guard
indicates the crews would be right on top of this, if given half a
chance.
That means some grand poobah made a policy decision
to not do required maintenance on these boats, and not decommission
them.
Issues:
- That decision was a criminal disregard for human
life.
- Shipping companies and cruise lines keep track of
issues like this, and tend to avoid places with issues like this, which hurts
our economy.
Does somebody know an investigative reporter, who
might be interested in looking into this, and write up who made that decision,
and who influenced them to do that?
Sincerely,
Roger
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Jove Lachman-Curl
I absolutely agree. A failed generator is the type of excuse they give the public. and most people say "Oh, i guess it WAS at the end of it's life". And maybe there are good reasons for it, and maybe there are bad reasons for it. But I agree with Rodger that someone changed a maintenance schedule somehow. Perhaps the generator was not stand alone... maybe it was a large alternator on the main engine, I don't know much about the layout of this type of boat. That 52 might make a someone good liveaboard when they sell the hull off at some point. :) -Jove
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:03 AM Roger Padvorac <roger@...> wrote:
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Randy Torgerson
I have already added MLB 52's to the list of boats I want when I grow up. I think they would be a great boat to take to the Arcitc circle.
Randy
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The lifesaving part of the Coast Guard is what most of us think of when the service is mentioned, but they've been sucking the hind tit for a long time. The status, and chance for advancement, used to be in the big cutters, and maybe still is, but since 9/11, and being wrapped into the Dept. of Homeland Security, the gun-wielding parts of the CG have been getting more things to do, and more of the money -- and there's never enough money to do everything the CG is asked to do. <sigh>
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If there aren't going to be replacements for the 52-footers anytime soon, it might make sense to take the four they've got out of service, one a time, for repowering and a major update of all the systems. But the hulls would still be 60+ years old. It'd probably be as expensive as building new boats, but there isn't a design for a replacement boat, and maybe money could be found from from a different pocket than the "new build" one. That's an old Navy trick, USN and RN, and why the 1850s sloop USS Constellation was thought for so long to be the frigate Constellation from the 1790s. The frigate was "rebuilt" in the '50s, but what really happened was a new sloop of war with the same name was built from scratch (sometimes some parts from the "rebuilt" ship were used in the new ship, but not always). I toured a 47-footer at Depoe Bay a couple of times during the boat show, before 9/11. Both times they'd assigned the freshest caught, wettest behind the ears, young Coastie to guide the tours. Both times somebody asked the youngster if they were excited to be out saving lives and were they gonna go to the Coxswain School at Cape D. Both times the young Coastie (different one each time I did the tour) said they were just doing time at a lifeboat station until they could get into the law enforcement arm! <sigh>
On 2/4/2021 8:01 AM, Roger P wrote:
-- John <jkohnen@boat-links.com> A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)
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