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Alblasserdam may 2002. The
day before
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On it way up
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Nearly there
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To remove all rust we used needle guns
. About 1 meter high (50 cm above the water) was done all the way to bare metal. Here a new layer of black paint to finish it off .
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Her you can clearly see that the props
shafts have an extra barring in the
rudder mounting. To remove the props the shaft needs to move forward. The next time we will be in the Drydock the props will be
reset since the we are missing 2 of it's four original main engines
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53 meter long and a draft of 2,5 to 3
meters a lot of paint was necessary
and a army of worker. In total 350 kg paint was needed
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On the yard. Motor tug Argus ,owned by
Stolk, also on the slipway.
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On the wooden blocks, its home for 3
weeks. We needed to rotate the prop's to make sure they didn't hid the concrete. When one blade is vertical down it's 90 cm below the keel. Diameter 2,2 meter and a pitch of 2 m. Max. rpm will be 250 to 300 . We still need a sponsor willing to do this job for us
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New steel plates were needed including some frames.
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Work nearly finished |