<div>I *really* suck at asking for help.
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<div><br />
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<div>I do Maritime Rescue, often in circumstances where no one else is coming.
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<div>The Ninaa Ootakii (aka, "The Pacific Northwest Ghost Ship") has been an integral part of that, providing me both shelter and a stable logistics platform.
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<div>Edit: tldr; Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am on month 22 of a 4 month haulout.  
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<div>Not at the finish line, but very close.
</div>
<div>The hull is patched, reinforced, and waiting for barrier coat.
</div>
<div>The new main drive, transmission, prop shaft, prop, and genset are all ready to be installed.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>... and this is the part I suck at.
</div>
<div>I'm out of funds.
</div>
<div>I'm treading water, but I need to pay the prop specialist, the crane operator, and the port.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I also need a bi directional thrust bearing, 18 gallons of barrier coat, and 40 gallons of bottom paint.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Call it roughly 15,000 + PPE, and miscellaneous incidentals.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I've come this far, and I'll get it done, but paying to sit in the boatyard while I save up enough funds to finish this is incredibly depressing.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I'll be okay once I clear this hurdle.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Thank you for any assistance you can provide. I deeply appreciate it.
</div>
<div>/end edit 
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>The story so far:
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<div>She had some troubles before my time with her. The most famous incident was arguably this one:
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748674015220559_r." width="100%" />
<div>(s/v Ninaa Ootakii, Beached on Beckett Point, in Discovery Bay.)
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>Dec 31, 2018, 2:09 pm, a friend of mine reached out to me, to ask me how I would get her off the beach, and would I come help.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>"30 ton excavator and a big tug" I replied.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>Two years later (after she was refloated) her owner tapped out and gave her to me.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I then became, in the middle of winter, the new owner of what was, essentially, a derelict shipwreck slated for the crusher.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>Then I walked into st Joseph's with a 100% blockage of my left anterior descending.
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<div><br />
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<div>For those of you without medical degrees, this is what they call "The Widowmaker".
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<div><br />
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<div>Apparently, since I wasn't married, it wasn't my time. So, with a few additional bits (a stent, which is, apparently, something like a plastic spring out of a ball point pen that keeps an artery open?) ... the story continues.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>48 hours after walking into the ER, Elijah Johnston and Alden Rohrer (my go-to guys for this kinda thing) are moving Ninaa from Discovery Bay to Port Hadlock, while I'm scrambling to find "anchor gear suitable for an 80' schooner" on a Sunday.
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<div><br />
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<div>Then I pumped *twelve thousand gallons of water* out of her.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>Two days later, COVID lockdown happened, and I didn't go home.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>And so the work began.
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>First thing I did was build a box:
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748674872726636_r." width="100%" />
<div>(Coffer dam, 8 feet deep, clamped to the side and underneath s/v Ninaa Ootakii, Port Hadlock, wa)
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>to patch, at sea, the below waterline hole in her starboard side. (more on this later)
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>That took it down to a more manageable 30 gallons an hour, at which point I installed a whole bunch of solar:
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748674982807570_r." width="100%" />
<div><br />
</div>
<div>a big battery bank:
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748675094915400_r." width="100%" />
<div><br />
</div>
<div>and an extensive number of safety systems to keep her off the beach and the water on the outside.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Then I added Internet, security cameras, and a couple of feline friends for company. (all'y'all know Void and Abyss)
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<div><br />
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748675906414981_r." width="100%" /><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748675858787731_r." width="100%" />
<div>(Void is the handsome one in the back)
</div>
<div>(Abyss has resting homicide face)
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<div><br />
</div>
<div>About 6 weeks into this, I get formally introduced to a local legend who was doing "Special Circumstances Rescue" training, (Alden and Elijah had both been students of his) ... and that afternoon I started what quickly became training every morning, work on Ninaa every evening.
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<div><br />
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<div>Turns out, Ninaa makes an *excellent* launch platform for Maritime Rescue operations in Port Townsend bay and the surrounding areas.
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<div><br />
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676083479931_r." width="100%" /><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676154433004_r." width="100%" />
<div>(r/v "Driftwood", departing s/v Ninaa Ootakii)
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<div><br />
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676285616149_r." width="100%" />
<div>(r/v "Driftwood" and yours truly)
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<div><br />
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<div>At this point work on Ninaa slowed down a lot, because I had fixed everything I could do at sea, and I needed a haulout.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>That required a huge amount of bureaucratic legwork, paperwork, and was an absolute nightmare to deal with.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>So while I was sorting all that and saving every penny to fix the boat, I was doing rescue training and big water practice.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Solo rescues in the middle of a gale pretty much became my new normal.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>(I have 14 terabytes of GoPro footage, likely going to YouTube it when I get Ninaa back in the water)
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>... Driftwood and Badger (my rescue boats) will vehemently argue that "small craft advisory" doesn't apply to them. You are what you do when it counts.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>And then, after the 847eleventeenth call to figure out what the problem is, I got Emily on the phone.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>(Huge shout out to Emily at the U.S. Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center, who sorted this whole mess out in 2 minutes)
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Scheduled for haulout, deposits paid, we start gearing up to haul her out.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Then I get a phone call, from David Jordan himself. (He built her, in his backyard, when he was a much younger man) ... of course a man who built a 137,000 lb, 80 foot schooner in his backyard would get on well with me, lol. (I had no idea he was still alive, so it was a bit of a shock to me, but boy howdy is that man a wealth of knowledge)
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>And so the current adventure began.
</div>
<div><br />
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676614725411_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676679988862_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676741592109_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748676941115824_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748677078170357_r." width="100%" />
<div>... you can pass a 55 gallon drum through that hole...
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_174867713786990_r." width="100%" /><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748677202815915_r." width="100%" />
<div><br />
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<div><br />
</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748677501213780_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748677771823050_r." width="100%" />
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/91496621_1748677843898425_r." width="100%" />
<div>(Keel and chine reinforcements completed, time to sand the rest to bare glass and barrier coat it.)
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>... and that brings us to today.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am on month 22 of a 4 month haulout.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>The hull is patched, reinforced, and waiting for barrier coat.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>The new prop and prop shaft are ready to be installed.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>The new main drive (Detroit 6v-92ta) and transmission (Reinjes WVS 234 UP) are ready to be installed.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>... and this is the part I suck at.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I'm out of funds.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I'm treading water, but I need to pay the prop specialist, the crane operator, and the port.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I also need a bi directional thrust bearing, 18 gallons of barrier coat, and 40 gallons of bottom paint.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Call it roughly 15,000 + PPE, and miscellaneous incidentals.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I've come this far, and I'll get it done, but paying to sit in the boatyard while I save up enough funds to finish this is incredibly depressing.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I'll be okay once I clear this hurdle.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Thank you for any assistance you can provide. I deeply appreciate it.
</div>
<div>-Stone
</div>

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