The work began this morning for real...finally. Arrived thursday, met by Lucky Gordon and after a great meal and a great evening catching up, we met up with a small group of Volunteers. Lucky and Gary Hopkins both old shipmates and Keith Estabrooks and Sylvain Roullard both submariners, toured all three boats with myself and our navy rep, Tim Kramble. After a quick inventory we worked out some kind of a plan, spent a few hours on an easter egg hunt and collected a good volume of smaller parts, gauges, etc to fill in some of the many holes in the control room panels. Lot's more of this to do, but it's obvious we wont find it all. Afterwards off to Home Despot to pick up some required tools, flashlights and such and home for dinner.
Sunday will be the big day and with any luck we'll have a larger crew who can hand to hand the larger pieces and work on more dismantling of good parts for Ojibwa. Lots left to do, but we're feeling pretty good so far.
Will post more after Sunday
It's weird there's so much that seems to be missing. It seemed mostly intact when we went through it last summer (2009). It was the other two subs had a lot missing, though. Were some of the parts already removed? We look forward to the next post. Deb and Mike
ReplyDeleteOjibwa was stripped for a "Shock Test" and all loose parts were moved to Olympus. Many parts have gone missing over the years due to pilfering/souvenir hunting. I'm sure we'll see a lot returned once she's in her new home!
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