Anderson

[Guest]

Re-powering GLF of AAA’s. Don’t hold your breath. They lost their shirt on the Callaway when they did the update on the steam plant with pilothouse control. The bottom line needs to greatly improve in the industry for any conversion to take place. They need contacts and a stronger economy for this to happen. Would like to see a couple of new builds with forward boom and pilothouse instead.

[Guest]

Been any rumblings of another repower? Obviously not here with the Anderson at the time, but the fact that they need her capacity seems promising. Yet it seems a bit disconcerting that none of the three AAA's have followed the Munson the past couple of seasons.

[Lakeport]

After being idle for so long there is a lot to go through on a ship. There is so many things that come about being a problem. Seen it lots just over a short term layup. There will still be glitches when she first sails.

[Guest]

She must need a decent amount of work if its taking that long for a survey ?

[Denny]

I agree shipwatcher 1 and second your comments. Give them a break already as they just got her into the drydock on May 10 and its been only 13 days so far. At one point I thought that I had seen and read here that she could be out by July. So they still have at least the whole month of June to paint her and if she is not out at the beginning of July at least, they still have all of June and then some of July to paint her if they choose to do so. As shipwatcher 1 said in his comments, let's just wait and see and give it some time yet as to if they decide to paint her yet or not. Even if she is not painted, after not sailing in the past few seasons at least she will be back out and running again. I would say at least having her out and running again even without new paint is better than just her sitting in lay-up waiting for orders and business to pick up again. Just my two cents and opinion only on this and nothing further.

[Shipwatcher1]

Just because painting has not started in the first week does not mean it won't happen. Just wait and see.

[Guest]

Following such an extended layup and possible hull work needing to be done, I would guess that the painting of the hull would be near the end of the process.

[Guest]

GLF must have had a change of heart to paint the hulls again.

[Guest]

GLF does appear to care about appearance. They recently blasted and painted the Blough, Munson and PI. Those boats look great!

[Guest]

Paint on a hull makes the vessel look nice, protects the vessel from rusting out. Does not help with the bottom line as far as hauling cargo. Therefore, a lot of the companies do not spend the money on paint as part of there maintenance like they use to.

[Bob]

Are they going to give the Anderson a new coat of paint while she is getting her 5 years inspection? The ship has been in the drydock over a week now and I don’t see any tarps around it or any sandblasting going on. If they were going to paint the ship I would’ve thought they would start the process already as it takes a long time to get that done.

[Bob]

They probably would have had the Anderson in drydock already but it is taking longer to get the dool done and that’s what’s backing up the schedule. They moved the Anderson I believe 3 weeks ago over to Fraser in anticipation that the dool would be coming out. I imagine that there is some work being done on the Anderson while it’s tied up at the shipyard or at least work that can be done before drydock it.

[Guest]

From reading the account from the Duluth News Tribune on the News Page, I would tend to believe that one of the primary reasons for the delay of the Irvin dry docking is summed up in the following excerpt from that article:

"Fraser and the DECC are currently negotiating details of the work to be done on Irvin. The DECC has budgeted $650,000 for maintenance and rehabilitation work — including patches to Irvin's hull and new paint below the waterline on the boat. The DECC board will be asked at its meeting Tuesday to approve a contract for the work, and Townsend said she was optimistic."

From this I would assume that the dry docking of the Anderson was put ahead of the Irvin at least in part by the DECC still having not finalized a contract with Fraser Shipyards for the work. Does anyone have any insight into why this has seemed to drag on somewhat? If I recall correctly the dry dock was available when the Irvin first arrived at Frasers last year and before work began on the Tim S. Dool.

[Chris M]

There was talk last yr about bringing the Anderson back out last yr. They finally decided at the beginning of this yr to actually go through with recertifying and repairing her.

[LakeWatcher]

I see on the newspage that the Irvin project at Fraser is being delayed, in part due to a line up for the drydock that includes the Anderson. Is this an indication that the Anderson’s return to service was not anticipated, and the owners and the yard are now in a hurry to get her out and moving?