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Steam Yacht Cangarda Voyage from San Francisco Bay to L.A.

This video was shot by John York, and uploaded with his express permission. John's account of the voyage: "Trip of a Lifetime" ...My wife dropped me off on Friday afternoon (April 23rd, 2010) at the dock, and I spent the afternoon settling in and helping stow things away, lots of miscellaneous item and equipment that need to be put out of the way to be ready for sea. Soon asleep in anticipation of an early start at 0200 This was however not to be. Henry worked all Friday and to about 0500 installing new power supplies for the engine room computer controls for the boiler. We then fired up the boiler and departed the dock about 0530 We headed for the Golden Gate at cruise speed of about 8 knots, about 180 rpm of the main engine. When we arrived near the bridge, the outgoing tide that we had planned for with the 0200 original plan had turned into a flood tide with some confused currents near and under the bridge that required some fancy steering maneuvers to keep a straight course. After clearing the bridge, we headed to sea for a ways, then turned South, keeping to the established shipping lanes for the whole trip, all on automatic pilot, with minor corrections in the Santa Barbara Channel to give greater clearance to offshore oil rigs. The trip from "out the gate" was a bit on the rough side, with swells 6-9 ft at 11-13 seconds with wind waves, and later on, lots of whitecaps, coming from the NW, we had this quartering following sea for the whole voyage. A fair way along before Pt Conception, we had the first of a couple of boiler control problems, losing the fire for at least an hour, which we spent wallowing in the troughs of the waves, rolling an estimated 20 degrees or so, with various items sliding back and forth on the cabin sole, including tables and chairs. We subsequently corralled them and lashed them together. I braced myself against the wall of the pilothouse sitting on the sole and braced my feet against one of the chairs to hold them against the wall. I was not on watch at the time. After a time we were able to restart the burners and get steam up and get back on our course; curiously, all the while we were without power and drifting along, we were very nearly still on our set course. When we got past Pt Conception, the seas moderated a good bit with much more comfortable conditions as to pitching and rolling. By the time we reached the Santa Barbara Channel the seas were quite calm, and the weather foggy, continuing to our arrival at San Pedro, arriving at the breakwater at about 0130. By the time we docked, it was about 0145 After docking and tying up, the scene was a bit surreal; the lighting from the port operations lit up the entire area with the sky glowing; I think a person with good night vision could have read a newspaper by the ambient light. Those making this historic first cruise of the restored Cangarda were: Robert (Bob) McNeil: Owner of Cangarda David Adams: Captain Steve Cobb: First mate, serving as chief engineer Derek: Painting contractor and woodworker, serving as deck crew and piloting Eugene: Specialist on controls and burners serving in this capacity and as deck crew Ollie: Deck crew and piloting John York: Deck crew and engineering assistant As I remember, I stood two four hour watches and one 8 hour watch on the trip. Now for the machinery; All the original machinery, over one hundred years old, functioned near perfectly; the main engine, a Sullivan triple expansion of 300-350HP ran flawlessly. The thrust bearing was watched very closely for temp. I sold the boat a force feed lubricator to provide extra lubrication to the shoes. The Sullivan feed pump ran flawlessly throughout the trip, providing all the feed water to the boiler; this is the pump that my shop machined the entirely new water cylinder casting. We had a bit of trouble with the air pump, which pumps water and air out of the condenser; the pump stopped working about three times, was easily restarted the first two. When it stopped the last time, I was on watch, Steve and I tried to re start it; I finally determined that the valve motion was sticking from lack of oil; we gave it a shot of oil and it started right up and ran beautifully for the rest of the trip. The only real troubles with the plant were from the automated burner controls; these problems were later eliminated with some more fine tuning of the burners and controls. The next leg of the journey was to San Diego, then Ensenada; there it was loaded on a ship for the trip to the Panama Canal, then Florida to be unloaded, then up the East coast to it's home port, in Maine. The reason for the shipboard trip was to spare the machinery the wear and tear of the very long voyage... John W. York 29 April 2010" NOTE! this video or audio may not be reproduced or sampled without my express, written permission. Top 10 lists and other compilations are not "fair use"! More information on copyright and fair use as related to YouTube: http://goo.gl/8NDLUV