For a week or more, Issuma was moored in the Port Angeles Boat Haven.
She is a 50-foot steel staysail schooner built in Tarare, France, by the metal-boat builder META.
Richard Hudson purchased the schooner in France, sailing her to Argentina and then to Greenland before traversing the Northwest Passage to Vancouver, B.C., and Victoria.
Richard stepped away from sailing for about 18 months to replenish his dwindling cash reserves.
But the adventurer is back at it again.
Issuma entered the U.S. in Port Angeles and then left Thursday evening for Antarctica.
Richard keeps a blog on his travels at www.issuma.com that hopefully will be updated with his new adventure soon.
Another log ship
Selinda, a 587-foot bulk cargo ship, moored to Port of Port Angeles Terminal 3 in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
She is loading approximately 5.5 million board feet of debarked logs that were harvested from private land in Western Washington.
Her journey to the Far East is scheduled to begin this Thursday.
Gone for good
La Rata Bastarda, the former 73-foot commercial steel fishing vessel that had been converted into a yacht before burning in Platypus Marine Inc.’s boat yard in 2013, finally left Port Angeles.
The fire-damaged vessel had been moored to a buoy near the log booms in the western end of the harbor for a month or more.
I understand her new owner is Steen Larsen of Squamish, B.C., which is also the vessel’s new hailing port.
La Rata Bastarda is currently moored in Squamish to another vessel owned by Larsen, a converted World War II-vintage Navy landing craft named Spudnik that was once a fish tender in Southeast Alaska named Arctic Transport.
In early January, another Larsen-owned vessel, Elf, a 74-foot wooden tugboat, sank at its moorage in Squamish.
The Canadian Coast Guard raised the sunken vessel and tried to tow the waterlogged tug to a repair facility in Vancouver.
While in transit, Elf sank off Lighthouse Park near West Vancouver, and again the Canadian Coast Guard raised her from the briny depths.
Another vessel Larsen was caretaking sank in Howe Sound — the body of water that connects Squamish with the Strait of Georgia — in April 2013.
The vessel was a 40-foot barge named Kinship Marine.
She was retrieved from the murky depths of Howe Sound and taken to ÂSechelt, B.C., where it was scrapped.
Waterfront happenings
Tebenkof moored in the Port Angeles Boat Haven last week. She is a fish processor that is also available for use on construction projects.
At the beginning of the week, Platypus Marine, the full-service shipyard, yacht-repair facility and steel-boat manufacturer on Marine Drive in Port Angeles, hauled out Qualay Squallum, a 58-foot Jensen, and stowed her in the giant Commander Building.
Platypus also hauled out Arctic Tern, a 72-foot oil-recovery vessel owned by Marine Spill Response Corp.
Crews power-washed the boat prior to the Coast Guard conducting its annual inspection of the vessel.
Platypus also hauled Deeahks out of the water.
She is a commercial fishing vessel that hails from Neah Bay.
I understand that personnel are going to replace a prop shaft.
PA Harbor watch
Tesoro Corp. on Saturday provided bunkers to Aqua Liberty, an 819-foot, Liberian-flagged tanker anchored in Port Angeles Harbor.
Later in the day, Polar Endeavour, one of Polar Tankers Inc.’s 895-foot crude-oil tanker that fly the U.S. flag, also was bunkered.
Today, Tesoro is scheduled to refuel Ocean Seagull, a 394-foot, Panamanian-flagged cargo ship.
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David G. Sellars is a Port Angeles resident and former Navy boatswain’s mate who enjoys boats and strolling the area’s waterfronts.
Items and questions involving boating, port activities and the North Olympic Peninsula waterfronts are always welcome. Email dgsellars@hotmail.com or phone him at 360-808-3202.
His column, On the Waterfront, appears Sundays.
