Save Patrol No.1

Hi everyone,
My name is Marc Landry. I'm from Parksville, British Columbia.
Patrol No.1 was built in Seattle in 1914 at Seattle Ironworks.
According to an old Pacific Yachting article, she was used to patrol the harbor and slow down the runabout’s that were creating too much of a wake at 10 and 12 miles an hour. She was built to go 14 miles an hour and originally had a Scripps engine. She now has a D 13,000 M Caterpillar, it’s a six cylinder D8 block. Turns at 950 RPM max. ,weighs 7,480 lbs, is 9 ft long by 5 ft high by 3 ft wide. The engine was built in 1937, I don’t know when it was installed.
Apparently there’s a picture of her in Chapmans Seamanship in the 1941 to 1947 issue.
I understand she was in service until 1961 working for the Seattle Harbor Police. She was officially called a patrol and fire boat, driven by police but used firemen to put out fires.
Sometime in the mid-60s she ended up underwater for a year with only a foot of the wheelhouse sticking out. She was then raised, repaired and sold to Steve Mayo, a marine artist living in Bellingham Washington. He owned her from 1969 to the early eighties.
After that she was sold to a young gentleman by the name of Chuck Velie.
He owned her for a few years until Chris pack bought her I believe in 1988. He rebuilt the house and the wheelhouse and the engine. When I bought her from Chris in June 2008, she had been at anchor for 4  years waiting for a buyer.
I was told she was difficult to sell because the closest moorage at that time, for a boat her size, was in Northern California or South Alaska.
I bought her out of Roche Harbor and took her back home to Parksville  I then decided to haul her out in Port Townsend because I’d heard that it was the Wooden Boat Capital of the  West Coast.

I got here in 2011 just to work on a few planks and do some caulking when I decided to do more work. Looked like a good place to do it and it just so happened that everything I’d done until then, the tools I had accumulated and experience in woodworking prepared me for this  job.
Working here on your boat, is like an intense four-year apprenticeship. Everything on a boat has to do with Applied Science and Engineering. I’ve been told a number of times by experienced and qualified men that my work is excellent.
She’s almost complete. I need a few good guys for a couple months and then I can splash.

I have spent $185,000 in 5 years on Port rent ($60,000), expert labor ($23,000), living expenses ($24,000) and materials and products ($78,000).

The Port forced a derelict fee of $17,000 plus 3 months advanced rent for a total of $23,000. They decided this based on personal bias without ever having met me or seen the boat. They did not follow State of Washington rules. They made up their own rules and have been doing so for years. I am the 3rd boat in 4 years they have made a derelict WHILE their owners were working and spending money on them. People are wondering if they want my boat for themselves.Why would they want to do that in a public facility?

I have contacted your Governor, both Senators, the State attorney General, local and regional and Canadian newspapers but no one wants to look at a conflict. I thought that's what newspapers are for.
The recent article about me in the local paper is strange in that the reporter never talked to me nor did she come see the boat. The paper printed lies about me and the boat, Not one person has come to see Patrol No.1.

I never intented to ask for help but certain individuals using unethical means have put me between a rock and a hard place...not where a boat wants to be. A small part of the story is on Facebook.

I came here to fix an American boat and instead of helping a customer, they made me out to be a criminal and have put in writing that they may destroy Patrol No.1.
What could I posibly have done to deserve this treatment? They just don't seem to want to put it in writing.

Please go to my Facebook page for pictures. I'll be adding videos soon.
More updates to come soon.

Next Steps: Please help preserve Patrol No. 1’s rich legacy, history and future.  Funding will be used for labor to finish her. I have most of the materials I need. 

She will have 3 staterooms for charters and diving expeditions.

Please help be a part of this feat of marine engineering, this icon of maritime history: Patrol No. 1. I look forward to keeping her history alive and to guiding Patrol No. 1 on her continued glorious path, thanks to your support.

Let her participate in the recreation of the Lake Union Locks 1917 parade in 2017.

Help celebrate this special centenarian as she enters her second century!

Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated.

Marc