Steam Yacht Cangarda Voyage from San Francisco Bay to L.A.
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2019
- This video was shot by John York, and uploaded with his express permission.
John's account of the voyage:
"Trip of a Lifetime"
...My wife dropped me off on Friday afternoon (April 23rd, 2010) at the dock, and I spent the afternoon settling in and helping stow things away, lots of miscellaneous item and equipment that need to be put out of the way to be ready for sea. Soon asleep in anticipation of an early start at 0200 This was however not to be. Henry worked all Friday and to about 0500 installing new power supplies for the engine room computer controls for the boiler. We then fired up the boiler and departed the dock about 0530
We headed for the Golden Gate at cruise speed of about 8 knots, about 180 rpm of the main engine. When we arrived near the bridge, the outgoing tide that we had planned for with the 0200 original plan had turned into a flood tide with some confused currents near and under the bridge that required some fancy steering maneuvers to keep a straight course. After clearing the bridge, we headed to sea for a ways, then turned South, keeping to the established shipping lanes for the whole trip, all on automatic pilot, with minor corrections in the Santa Barbara Channel to give greater clearance to offshore oil rigs.
The trip from "out the gate" was a bit on the rough side, with swells 6-9 ft at 11-13 seconds with wind waves, and later on, lots of whitecaps, coming from the NW, we had this quartering following sea for the whole voyage. A fair way along before Pt Conception, we had the first of a couple of boiler control problems, losing the fire for at least an hour, which we spent wallowing in the troughs of the waves, rolling an estimated 20 degrees or so, with various items sliding back and forth on the cabin sole, including tables and chairs. We subsequently corralled them and lashed them together. I braced myself against the wall of the pilothouse sitting on the sole and braced my feet against one of the chairs to hold them against the wall. I was not on watch at the time. After a time we were able to restart the burners and get steam up and get back on our course; curiously, all the while we were without power and drifting along, we were very nearly still on our set course. When we got past Pt Conception, the seas moderated a good bit with much more comfortable conditions as to pitching and rolling. By the time we reached the Santa Barbara Channel the seas were quite calm, and the weather foggy, continuing to our arrival at San Pedro, arriving at the breakwater at about 0130. By the time we docked, it was about 0145 After docking and tying up, the scene was a bit surreal; the lighting from the port operations lit up the entire area with the sky glowing; I think a person with good night vision could have read a newspaper by the ambient light.
Those making this historic first cruise of the restored Cangarda were:
Robert (Bob) McNeil: Owner of Cangarda
David Adams: Captain
Steve Cobb: First mate, serving as chief engineer
Derek: Painting contractor and woodworker, serving as deck crew and piloting
Eugene: Specialist on controls and burners serving in this capacity and as deck crew
Ollie: Deck crew and piloting
John York: Deck crew and engineering assistant
As I remember, I stood two four hour watches and one 8 hour watch on the trip.
Now for the machinery; All the original machinery, over one hundred years old, functioned near perfectly; the main engine, a Sullivan triple expansion of 300-350HP ran flawlessly. The thrust bearing was watched very closely for temp. I sold the boat a force feed lubricator to provide extra lubrication to the shoes. The Sullivan feed pump ran flawlessly throughout the trip, providing all the feed water to the boiler; this is the pump that my shop machined the entirely new water cylinder casting. We had a bit of trouble with the air pump, which pumps water and air out of the condenser; the pump stopped working about three times, was easily restarted the first two. When it stopped the last time, I was on watch, Steve and I tried to re start it; I finally determined that the valve motion was sticking from lack of oil; we gave it a shot of oil and it started right up and ran beautifully for the rest of the trip. The only real troubles with the plant were from the automated burner controls; these problems were later eliminated with some more fine tuning of the burners and controls.
The next leg of the journey was to San Diego, then Ensenada; there it was loaded on a ship for the trip to the Panama Canal, then Florida to be unloaded, then up the East coast to it's home port, in Maine. The reason for the shipboard trip was to spare the machinery the wear and tear of the very long voyage...
John W. York
29 April 2010"
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Could watch the steam engine for hours. They're alive. They have a heartbeat!
I remember seeing Cangarda ages ago in So Cal. What a beautiful sight! Never been aboard tho.
She's for sale. There's your chance!
Nice to see it in its element on the open sea. Not many vintage steam engines doing that any more...
Wonderful video and Amazing yacht. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Such class. Such elegance. those A-rab superyachts look like spaceships and are hidious. But, they keep a lot of people employed, so all's OK.
Definitely more personality than those plastic gin palaces
Thanks for sharing this special voyage with us. What a cool yacht you have John. SF Bay is my sailing ground but I don't have a cool steamship.
Unfortunately it isn't my yacht either. She certainly is a beauty though, isn't she? Thank you very much for watching.
@@WesleyHarcourtSTEAMandMORE A lovely little ship doing what she was built to do. I love the ocean shots with what around here are just moderate swells. Those classic long overhangs...beauty and in a steel hull not as prone to rot in those ends either.
What a great video! Not enough steam in action videos for boats out there. This really made me feel good. Thank you for making it. I am a photographer by trade, and I often get too caught up in the awesome things I am doing to do a great job filming. Hats off to you for getting it done on what had to be an epic journey!
I completely agree. It's a fine balance of documenting and actually being present to enjoy it yourself too! John did a good job filming this journey and was kind enough to let me post it for him.
What a Beautiful Engine!
Seems Noisy running at sea. Most I sailed with, you could barely hear 'em run.
The straight cut gears for the valve train make for some unusual noises in a reciprocating steam engine room...
again a very interesting video, great and thank you!
Thank you again for your kind comments, and for watching.
I believe I noticed Weir's style feed water and condensate pumps cycling in the background.
Yes she has a few steam auxiliary pumps for feedwater and condensate recovery. Good eyes
12:20 "Kind of like Victory at Sea" love it
O mais belo Yacht do mundo, parabéns. Saudações Brasileiras.
Ela é uma verdadeira beleza. Fico feliz por poder compartilhar com você no Brasil e em outras partes do mundo.
300-350 horse power over 100 years old,128',7-8",7-6" and 12 knots (appr.13.8 mph) a real sweet boat 🌺
Excellent! I saw the boat when she was at the mystic seaport back in 2010, I was 9 at the time and am still huge into steam power. didn't get to see her engineering plant unfortunately
Thank you! I'm glad enjoyed the video, and got to see her in person. It's good to know there are younger folks getting interested in steam. It really is an fever... And the only cure is more steam whistle.
Have you been on the Sabino at Mystic Seaport?
Wesley Harcourt are you kidding?! Ed (the old chief) practically tried to groom me to be her next engineer, and I am a student fireman at the RR in Essex
Give me some time to figure out where everything is, and I could operate that plant.
Nice Herreshoff engine 😍
oops! I was wrong, it seems that the engine is a Sullivan....
Bonjour Wesley,
What a voyage ! How lucky you were ! I would not have imagined that this long steam yacht would have had such a small triple expansion machine. The boiler seems small too. Sometimes it seams to go a little bit slower, because of the waves ? A problem with the boiler ?
And where is this boat now ?
Amicalement, Raphaël
Bonjour Raphaël,
Unfortunately I did not get to experience that voyage. The video was shot by our family friend, John York. The engine is of about 300-350hp and boiler is a watertube design. She was making 9kts even in those seas. The engine was speeding up and slowing down due to the following seas... The propeller may have been breaching a bit.
Cangarda is now on the East Coast of the U.S. in Maine I believe.
Thank you for watching once again!
There is a place in Nova Scotia that restores Wooden Boats. I wonder if that is where she is bound to?
Khadijah Brown believe it or not she's actually steel hulled. She did spend a lot of her early life in the 1000 islands region and made a visit there as well as Montreal a few years ago.
wow!!!!!
Nice
Wow. This was so awesome! How do I find you guys? I’m in SF Bay and would love to get involved with such gems of the steam world.
Thank you! The ship was eventually taken to her home on the East Coast. There are other steam ships in the bay like the Jaramiah O'brien and the Hercules. My father and I have a 40' steamboat in the Delta also. The last full weekend in September there is an annual steamboat meet at the B&W resort marina near Isleton/Rio Vista.
Thank you! The ship was eventually taken to her home on the East Coast. There are other steam ships in the bay like the Jaramiah O'brien and the Hercules. My father and I have a 40' steamboat in the Delta also. The last full weekend in September there is an annual steamboat meet at the B&W resort marina near Isleton/Rio Vista.
nice channel and subbed ya. Does California have special laws n rules for steam power boats and ship ? Knowing California ? thanks :-)
Thank you very much!
California does not have any special laws in regards to steam powered boats or ships, unlike other states. Cangarda does fall under U.S. Coast Guard regulations though.
How many days did the voyage take?
I believe it took a day and a half.
13:10 filming a random dead guy on deck
I'm the random dead guy with an ear out for the slosh of a wave coming over the rail. I got up and moved 30 seconds before that spot I was laying in was washed by a wave.
Is her boiler oil burning?
I believe she burns fuel oil or diesel in the boiler
Yes, #2 Diesel. Steam and airatomized Coen SWV oil guns. I started up the Boiler with Steve Cobb and I made this trip!
awesome yacht but very bad footage!
nice ship but camera bad, sound bad, I´m out at 3:00