F/V Wizard

History of the F/V Wizard

Built by the US Navy

The Wizard is a 155’x30’ vessel commissioned to be built by the US Navy in 1945 in Brooklyn, NY by the Ira S. Bushey shipyard. Her original name is an International Marine Organization (IMO) number, YO-210. She is one of the few remaining YO-153 class vessels.

Purchased by John Jorgensen

After the war, she was laid up in mothballs in Boston harbor. Some of the Oiler fleet was used as target practice, or for building artificial reefs off the eastern seaboard in the last few decades. YO-210 was eventually purchased and made one trip unsuccessfully as the Clifford K hauling molasses before being purchased by John Jorgensen in 1978 to be converted to a fishing vessel to fish crab in the Bering Sea. Renamed the Wizard after his grandfather’s Longliner, which was one of the premier cod and halibut boats in the Seattle fleet of the early and mid 20th Century. John’s father and grandfather were Norwegian immigrants in the pioneer days of the Alaskan commercial fishing industry, and John started working for them at a very young age.

Left: John as a boy was onboard his fathers vessel the F/V Majestic
Right: The Wizard was named after John's grandfather's Longliner

Outfitted as a crabber

Bender Shipyard in Louisiana converted the Wizard to a crabber in 1978, from where John and his family sailed her through the Panama Canal and on to Seattle where Marco Shipyard finished the conversion. She originally had 8 tanks for carrying oil cargo and a capacity of 240,000 gallons. During the conversion, two of the tanks were eliminated to increase the size of the engine room to hold added generators and a salt-water circulation system. Four of the original tanks are used for live holding tanks for crab, and the two forward tanks are used for dry storage and refrigerated seawater unit. The house and living quarters were increased, and a substantial amount of hydraulics for the two cranes and crab pot hauling equipment were added.

Left: John Jorgensen clowning around in the crab hold
Right: John Jorgensen and family sailing the Wizard through the Panama Canal

Note the absence of the crab pot launcher on the starboard rail .

Fishing in the King Crab Heyday

The F/V Wizard (Fishing Vessel is a Coast Guard registered vessel) began fishing crab in 1979 during what is now known as the “King Crab Heyday” of the late 1970’s. She targeted primarily Bairdi crab (tanner) and the fledgling opilio (snow) throughout the 1980’s. In the late 1980’s, when king crab had recovered and opilio quotas surged to phenomenal levels, the Wizard routinely was one of the top 10 crab producers in the Bering Sea in a fleet that at times would be as large as 270 vessels. Under John Jorgensen’s tutelage while still active as a captain, Keith and Monte Colburn learned the ropes of many of the aspects of becoming proficient crab captains.

The Wizard loaded with crab pots, circa 1978

Working the stack Mike Rodgers "Bear" Keiths first deck boss onboard .

Wizard ranks in top 5 for King Crab allocations

In 2005, when NOAA under the Dept of Commerce enacted the Crab Rationalization program, vessels of the Bering Sea were awarded IFQs (individual fishing quotas). The Wizard’s King and Opilio crab allocations were among the highest in the Bering Sea for an individual boat, ranking in the top 5 for Kings, and top 10 for Opilio, in a fleet in excess of 250 vessels.

The Wizard riding low with a big catch in the Bering Sea., anchored in Village Cove St. Paul Island

Note the oily seas, probably 28* water temp

Vessel is sold to long-time Wizard Captain, Keith Colburn

John Jorgensen and his partner Steve Soriano sold the vessel to Keith Colburn and his wife Florence in July of 2005. They maintain a close relationship with Keith harvesting John and Steve’s IFQ allocation, as well as that of a number of other IFQ crab holders, all by lease agreements. The Wizard is now working with another boat in the Alaska Crab Producers Cooperative.

The Wizard gets a new paint job under new ownership by the Colburns

General Description

The “WIZARD” is a single deck crab fishing vessel and fish tender designed for ocean service with a single diesel-oil propulsion engine, single rudder and single propeller.

The vessel was built in 1945 by Ira Bushey and Sons, Inc. of Brooklyn, NY to a US Navy design as a yard oiler. After serving the Navy, the vessel was decommissioned and tied up in Boston Harbor from the until 9/1/1974. In 1974 the vessel was sold to a private party and used as a molasses hauler for 8 months. In 1978 it was purchased by the present owners and converted at Bender Shipbuilding of Mobile AL to serve as a crab fishing vessel. A bow thruster was added in 1978. The vessel has participated in Bering Sea crab fisheries since conversion.

The hull is of all welded steel construction and includes a raised foredeck with a framed steel top house placed aft, a vertical stem with a moderately flared bow and a elliptical stern.

The vessel is considered as three (3) levels including a main deck, spaces below the main deck and an 01 deck levels above the main deck with a wheelhouse carried on the 01 level.

The 01 deck is a forward weather deck that carries anchor gear and moorage tackle, and the top level of a full width deck enclosure aft with a raised partial-width deckhouse used as a navigation bridge forward with an office and master’s accommodations aft.

The main deck is enclosed forward to accommodate a bait locker and a chain locker. The weather deck aft is found with fishing equipment, deck cranes and hatches to the holds and machinery spaces below. A full-width deckhouse is aft.

The hold/machinery deck (below deck) is divided into (13) primary watertight compartments. Forward the collision bulkhead is a saltwater ballast tank. Next aft is a bow thruster and refrigeration machinery space with a double bottom potable water tank below. Next aft are port and stb dry holds. The port hold also contains refrigeration machinery and equipment.

Next aft are (2) port and (2) stb flooded holds are arranged on the sides of the centerline with double bottom fuel tanks below, typically kept pressed with fresh water. Next aft is an engine room with main propulsion machinery, electrical power generation plants, bilge, fresh water, fuel system and other ancillary machinery, as well as non-integral lube oil and hydraulic oil tanks integral fresh water tanks and integral fuel oil wing and day tanks. Aft is a steering gear compartment with a fresh water peak tank below.

Masts and Rigging
A light and antenna mast rises from the wheelhouse top and is braced by port and stb aft directed 4” diameter pipe stays tied with a 4” diameter pipe. The mast is fit with a ladder to a guarded utility platform. It carries navigation lamps, three (3) high-pressure sodium fishing lamps.

A mast constructed of 10” diameter steel pipe rises from the foredeck and is brace by port and stb forward directed supports of 4” diameter pipe. The mast is fit with an unguarded ladder to an guarded utility platform and carries (5) high-pressure sodium lamps oriented forward and navigation lamps. The mast also serves as an exhaust trunk for the bow thruster engine.

Hull
The hull is of typical US Navy Yard Oiler design with lap welded strakes. The vessel has a flared bow fit with a bow thruster with an intake below the forefoot and port and stb outlets. The hull has a nearly flat bottom with a rounded gradual bilge turn to nearly vertical sides. The insertion of the bow and transition from mid-body to stern are gently tapered with the stern converging to a single skeg below a rounded transom.

A flat plate keel, 32” wide runs from aft the forefoot to a single skeg aft.
Hull transducers: Two (2) on the keel in extended housings.
Seachests: 12” diameter screened seachests (2) port and (2) stb. One (1) 12” x 24” seachest is stb aft to a 2-1/2” suction line.
Keel mounted surface heat exchangers: Two (2) runs of 8” wide by 2” deep channel welded to the hull stb and four (4) port.
Bilge Keels: constructed of ½” steel plate extended 15” from turn of bilge and fit with 1-1/2” diameter edge bar.

Construction
Material: framed and lap welded steel hull, with welded framed steel superstructure.
The main deck has 17” of camber.

Hull guards are three (3) courses 6” x 5” formed steel hull guards running stem to stern with two (2) of the three below the water line.
Freeing ports: hinged shutters on ports sufficient for proper clearing of deck.
The propeller shaft bearing housing is fit with a line cutter.

Navigation
Navigation lights are Perko or brass and glass fixtures set in regulation dampers where required. A toggle switch panel is in the wheelhouse.

Fwd. range light: Yes
Running lights: Yes
Anchor light: Yes
Stern light: Yes
Fishing/Fueling: Yes
Towing: Yes – (2) white all around
Day Shapes: fishing, anchor
Whistle: Kahlenberg duel-tone pneumatic horn
Bell: yes – forward on the deckhouse.

Dock and Ground Tackle
The forward weather deck carries a hydraulically driven duel anchor windlass. The windlass is fit with two wildcats, two gypsies and two friction brakes.

The vessel is currently configured with a stb 2,000-lb stockless Danforth-type anchor fit with 8 shots of 1” stud link chain.
The hull is fit with stb and port 12” Hawspipes and 8” chainway to locker below. The anchor is stopped by a pelican hook and turnbuckle preventer. A spare anchor is secured in the port hawspipe.

10” diameter double bitts are port and stb on the bow and each serve a closed chock set in the bulwarks.

On the fishing deck are port and stb 32” cleated chocks set in the bulwarks forward, a cleated chock port mid deck, a cleated chock stb aft, a 3” double pin bitt on the bulwark cap port aft, and port and stb 8” diameter double pin bitts served by closed chocks set in the bulwarks aft.
On the 01 aft weather deck are port and stb 10” double bitts serving closed chocks.
A hydraulic capstan for tending moorage is center on the aft 01 weather deck.

Safety
Alarms
The General Alarm activator is a pull type positive contact switch in the wheelhouse.   Flashing light and/or bell signals are mounted throughout the vessel.
A machinery alarm panel is in the wheelhouse.
Machinery alarms are for:
1.   Main engine, stb 3306, port 3306, 3304
2.   Bilge high-level senders are in the engine room and forepeak below.
3.   A heat sensor found above the main engine.

Survival Equipment
An Elliot, 8-person Solas A, ocean service auto-inflatable life raft is situated in a float free cradle on the port side of lower step of the housetop. The raft is fit with approved Hammer H20R hydrostatic release mechanism.

An Elliot, 8-person Solas A, ocean service auto-inflatable life raft is situated in a float free cradle on the port side of lower step of the housetop. The raft is fit with approved Hammer H20R hydrostatic release mechanism.

406 EPIRB
An ACR “SatFind” model S1010, 406 MHz Class “A” epirb is mounted in a hydrostatic release fixture on the lower step of the housetop.

GMDSS Radios
Two (2) ACR 6/16 VHF band radio

GMDSS Search and Rescue Transmitter
One (1) Jotron SART

Flares
Flares are contained in a watertight box located in a wheelhouse locker.
Three (3) Pains-Wessex USCG approved red parachute flares
Three (3) Pains-Wessex USCG approved orange smoke canisters
Six (6) Pains-Wessex USCG approved handheld flares.

Exposure Suits
Ten (10) adult universal suits are found in the wheelhouse.
Suits have vessel name, flotation pillows, whistles, lights and retroreflective material as required.

Man Overboard Retrieval Equipment
Ring buoys: found on the stb 01 level - 30” ring buoy with line, aft on the 01 level with line, forward main deck - 30” ring buoy with line
A Life Sling man overboard retrieval device is located in the main deck passage.
An exposure suit in the wheelhouse is designated for and assist swimmer

Fire Fighting Equipment
Fixed Fire Suppression System – Five (5) 100-pound CO2 cylinders for protection of the engine room are found mounted on the main deck

Forward Fire Suppression System
A hose reel fire suppression system guards the forepeak and is found inside the protected space. Two (2) 75-lb bottles are to a hose and nozzle spooled on a reel.

Fire Extinguishers
A fire ax is in the main deck passage.

Location Agent Type/Size

Wheelhouse                 Dry Chem            BC I
Wheelhouse                 Halon 1211           BC I
Main deck passage    CO2                       BC II
Main deck passage (2)Dry Chem            A II BC III
Engine Room (3)         CO2                       BC II
Engine Room               Dry Chem              A II BC III

Fire hydrant locations
Main deck anteroom – hydrant with hose and nozzle
Engine room – hydrant with hose and nozzle
Stb entrance to forepeak – hydrant with hose and nozzle

Self-contained Breathing Apparatus
Two (2) Survive-Air model Mark 2-LP 30 SCBA are kept in the wheelhouse office. One (1) is in a main deck passage. Last hydrostatic testing was 10/2001.

Emergency Lighting – fixed 32-volt system illuminating engine room with vapor globes in way of the main switching panel and ladder to main deck.

Medical Equipment – Lafferty standard shipboard medical kit stowed in master’s stateroom – refit August 2004.

Oil Spill Response Kit – Yes

Other safety equipment
Three (3) floatation vests

01 Level Arrangement
The 01 level is a partial-width stepped deckhouse carried atop the aft deckhouse. Forward, the upper step is configured entirely as a navigation bridge. Aft, the lower step has a master’s accommodation port and an office stb. A 35” high crawl space is below the forward step.

The master’s stateroom is found with an extra-wide berth, wood lockers and drawers, entertainment electronics, refrigerator and has an adjacent head with a bathtub/shower, wash basin, and toilet.
The stateroom is finished with pressed wood panel bulkhead covers, vinyl covered wood deckhead panels fit with suspended fluorescent light fixtures and carpeted decks.

The head is finished with plastic covered panel bulkhead coves, vinyl covered wood deckhead panels and vinyl deck covering.

House Top Weather Deck

The wheelhouse top is accessed via a vertical ladder aft the house.
Upper step:
The upper step area is unguarded. A sun visor is along the forward and side aspect of the housetop to reduce glare on the viewports below.
A light and antenna mast rises from the wheelhouse top. The mast is fit with a ladder to a guarded utility platform. Two (2) standards of 4” diameter pipe are braced and each carry a radar scanner. Three (3) 1000-watt quartz lamps are directed forward from the housetop.
An exhaust casing from the engine room rises housetop aft the upper step.
Lower step:
The lower step is guarded by a 37” high, 2-teir pipe rail. Found are port and stb life rafts and an epirb.

Wheelhouse Arrangement, Electronics and Equipment
A partial width wheelhouse is situated atop an aft deckhouse raised from the main deck. Access is provided from port and stb watertight doors and up an interior inclined ladder from below.
The wheelhouse is finished with pressed wood panel bulkhead covers, vinyl covered wood deckhead panels fit with suspended fluorescent light fixtures and carpeted decks.
Weather bulwarks and deckheads are insulated with sprayed polyurethane foam.
A chart table is stb and a vinyl upholstered settee is port aft.

Eleven (11) framed and gasketed viewports are found along the forward aspect of the wheelhouse. Three (3) are port and three (3) are stb. Two (2) viewports in the weather hatches provide some visibility aft.
Two (2) forward viewports are fit with SeaClear membrane heaters. Two (2) are fit with heated spinning windows. Two (2) heated fans on the overhead stb are directed to the forward viewports for defrosting.

The forward windows are raked and provided with a visor above to reduce glare. A dash is below the forward viewports extending along the forward face of the bridge. The console is arranged to provide two (2) distinct operating stations (port and stb), the primary con being the stb station found with fishing and navigation electronics.

Adjustable operator’s chairs at the stb and port cons.
The pilothouse is heated by a ducted system and electric space heaters mounted in the bulkheads.

Wheelhouse Electronics and Equipment

Control Systems
Stb:

Main engine throttles – Mathers pneumatic
Bow thruster control (Wagner lever)
Robertson, model RI40 rudder angle indicator
Wagner jog steering lever
Robertson, model AP 45 autopilot
Steering motor and mode selector panel built by Northwest Instruments
Bow thruster start/stop
Whistle activator – pull cord

Port:

Bow thruster throttle
Mathers main engine throttle
Wagner jog steering lever
Robertson RI 40 rudder angle indicator

Radars

Anritsu/Simrad x-band marine radar
Furuno, model FR 2115-B, x-band radar with a Viewsonic model VG900b 19” monitor.

Navigation, Positioning and Fishing Equipment

Ritchie, model SP-6, 6” dial magnetic steering compass with binnacle light
Sperry, model MK7 gyrocompass
Furuno, GP-37, GPS/WAAS receiver
North Star, model 941X, GPS receiver
North Star, model 800, GPS receiver
Furuno, model GD-180 color video plotter
Furuno, model FCV 782 color video depth sounder
Furuno, model FCV 251 color video depth sounder
Computer based ECC “Globe” chart and positioning system software with computer with Shuttle X input device, keyboard, and Viewsonic model VG900b 19” monitor.

Communication Equipment

Stephens Engineering, model SEA 322, HF/SSB single side band transceiver
Stephens Engineering, model SEA 222, HF/SSB single side band transceiver
Standard, VHF band radio transceiver
Standard Horizon, VHF band radio transceiver with distress call switch
Intech “Mariner” watch receiver, 2182 kHz monitor and alarm
Aiphone, model TA-12F Ships intercom system
JRC, model NCR-300A NavTex transceiver
Raytheon, model RAY 410, loudhailer
Motorola Inmarsat satellite communication transceiver
FCC required dummy load
Call-Com SWR meter
Honeywell tone generator model TG 502A
Computer based communications software with an IBM “ThinkPad” model 760ED computer, Star model NX-1000II dot matrix printer and a Thrane and Thrane Standard C satellite communications modem.
Argos VMS vessel position transmitter

Wether Monitoring Equipment

Barometer
wind speed gauge

Alarm, Light and Electrical Distribution Panels

general alarm actuator
Fishing, Deck and Navigation light panel
Machinery alarm panel
12-volt DC panel
Harris Electric, “Helm Alert” watch alarm

Other Equipment

Space heaters mounted in bulkheads (2)
Clock
Hewlett-Packard Deskjet printer
Fortress Best uninterruptible power supply
APC Back-up Pro uninterruptible power supply
Rieker clinometer
Two (2) heater fans
Entertainment electronics

Additional Office Equipment

Space heater mounted in bulkhead
Canon, model PC-1 copy machine
Second control head for SEA 322 SSB
safe
Whirlpool washer and dryer

Forepeak Weather DeckThe forepeak deck is accessed by inclined ladders port and stb and is raised 40” from the main deck. The foredeck is guarded by a 52” high bulwark port and stb capped by 3x6” tubing and aft by a 36” high, 2-teir rail. Found are anchor and moorage tackle. A raised area center 44” H x 87”L x 90” W shelters the entrance to forward areas below.

01 Level Aft Weather Deck
Accessed from the wheelhouse and from port and stb vertical ladders from the main deck, the area is guarded by a44” high 2-teir pipe rail. A stainless steel chute, 32” wide and 36” high, runs down the stb side and extends past the stern. The chute is used for setting snail pots and is fit with stainless steel rollers at the end.

A hydraulic capstan is center. Weather passages to forward are port and stb the house. A gallery overlooking the fishing deck runs across the forward aspect of the house.

Main Deck Arrangement
Forward the main deck is fully enclosed to form a foc'sle with a bait locker and machinery spaces below. Next aft is a weather fishing deck protected by bulwarks and with hatches to the forward dry holds, flooded/RSW holds and engine room below. The deck carries a main mast forward that penetrates and is integral with the raised foredeck and two deck cranes.
The main deck is fully enclosed aft to form an accommodations space.

Fishing Deck Arrangement
Three (3) dogged watertight hatch to forepeak areas are forward.
A wood wear deck is set on steel risers and frames raised 10” from the steel deck. Steel diamond plate is laid in way of the pot launcher and aft the launcher. A deck machinery control and gear hauling station with a deck crane is stb mid-deck. A second deck crane is port.
The port and stb bulwarks forward are 93” high with a tie rail of 3” steel pipe fit to 9” high risers from the bulwark cap. The bulwarks are fit with a tie rail of 3-1/2” pipe. At the port crane the port bulwarks drops to 46” in height above the steel deck (26” above the wear deck) and is fit with a rail of 3” diameter pipe set on 12” risers. The stb bulkhead in way of the gear hauling area is 64” from the steel deck and 28” from the wear deck.

On the stb side an extended bulwark with a 41” wide shelter runs 14’ from forward. The aft 7’ of the sheltered area is fit with wood bin boards.
The aft deck house and the forward deck area are protected by pot guards fashioned from 4” pipe.
The deck is arranged for fishing with single pots.
Vertical ladders port and stb aft are to the 01 level.

Deck Equipment

On the stb side mid-deck, a 64” W x 80” L x 64” high base carries a 54” high pedestal of 12” diameter pipe that carries a Rowe 8-ton hydraulic telescoping boom crane. The crane is fit with a rotoseal for 360-degree operation. The boom carries a hydraulic planetary drum winch spooled with 1-1/4” braided line terminating with an open hook.
On the port side aft of mid-deck, a 64” W x 80” L x 64” high base carries a 54” high pedestal of 12” diameter pipe that carries a Rowe 8-ton hydraulic telescoping boom crane. The crane is fit with a rotoseal for 360-degree operation. The boom carries a hydraulic planetary drum winch spooled with 1-1/4” braided line terminating with an open hook.
Crane controls are stb at the gear hauling area.

Other equipment includes:

Custom crab hauler davit constructed of 6” diameter curved pipe and holding a Marco “Kinghauler” power block
Hydraulic flow splitter for power block and coiler simultaneous operation
Marco, hydraulic line coiler
Kolstrand, hydraulic bait chopper
Two (2) aluminum hold hatch hoppers
Hydraulic pot launcher
Deck hose

Fishing Gear
Fishing gear was in storage in Alaska and not sighted. Reported are 235 crab pots (6-1/2’ x 6-1/2’).

Main Deck House
Access is via two (2) watertight hatches from the fishing deck, an inclined ladder from the 01-level house deck and an inclined ladder from the engine compartment.

An anteroom added to the forward aspect of the deck house extends 51” from the house and is 179” wide. Watertight hatches to the house are port and stb. The anteroom is fit with expanded steel over the steel deck and has welding gear and deck supplies.
A centerline passage runs from the weather entrance forward to a galley aft.

On the port side of the passage is access to the engine room and a single berth stateroom. Aft a center exhaust casing is a locker with laundry equipment and a short transverse passage to a forward passage with a 2-berth stateroom and a 4-berth stateroom, and an inclined ladder to the wheelhouse. An escape hatch from the engine room is in the deck of the transverse passage.
The stb side of the passage is arranged with a forward 2-berth stateroom and an aft 2-berth stateroom fit with a sink and lockers. Next aft is a head with a toilet, shower and basin. Next aft is a head with a toilet and wash basin.

Berthing areas are generally finished with built-in bunks, lockers and drawers, pressed wood panel bulkhead covers, vinyl covered wood deckhead panels fit with suspended fluorescent light fixtures and carpeted decks. Two newly re-finished staterooms stb and the stb galley are found with Formica covered plywood bulkhead covers.

Aft, the passage leads to a galley area. A mess is stb with a galley table surrounded by vinyl upholstered bench locker seating.

A scullery port is found with double stainless steel sinks in a wood frame counter that has a preparation/serving counter atop drawer storage and cabinets. On the bulkheads above the counter are wood frame cupboards. The scullery is fit with appliances for food preparation and storage. A walk in refrigerated locker port is fit with a stainless steel safety latch door, wood shelves and a one-fan evaporator. Two (2) reach-in refrigerated lockers are stb (upper and lower).

Spaces are equipped with bulkhead-mounted space heaters.

External bulkheads are insulated. The galley spaces are finished with Formica covered plywood on bulkheads, vinyl covered panel deckhead covers and steel decks with vinyl flooring.

Galley Equipment:

The following equipment is found in the galley area:
Two-basin stainless steel sink
Upper and lower built-in refrigerated lockers
Commercial electric oven with 2-burner electric range and griddle top with a Nutone vented hood
Toastmaster 4-slice Toaster
Maytag dish sanitizer
GE microwave oven
Sharp microwave oven
Bloomfield Coffee maker
Clock
Entertainment electronics
Laundry: Asko washing machine and clothes drye

Hold/Machinery Deck Arrangement
Forward Spaces Arrangement
Port and stb weather hatches on the main deck lead to a bow thruster machinery space forward, a dry store stb aft the machinery space and a refrigeration machinery space and dry store port. A center weather hatch on the main deck leads to mid-deck with a port refrigerated bait locker, a chain locker just stb of center and a stb refrigerated bait locker. The mid deck is 24” below the main deck. The bait lockers are insulated and found with fiberglass reinforced plastic bulkhead and deckhead coatings and concrete atop the steel decks. Each locker is fit with an insulated safety latch door and a single fan evaporator.

Access is by inclined ladders port and stb from the forepeak. The forepeak machinery space is divided into three areas with a forward compartment found with bow thruster and bait locker refrigeration machinery. Next aft is a stb dry store used for gear storage and a port refrigeration machinery space with refrigeration machinery, pumps and a chiller for the refrigerated sea water system.

Flooded/RSW Hold Arrangement
Four (4) flooded holds are arranged along the centerline: port and stb forward (28,176-gallon capacity each) and port and stb aft, (27,525-gallon capacity each). Each is accessed through hatches in the main weather deck. The holds are fit with perforated circulation piping.

Engine Compartment Arrangement
A full-width engine compartment is accessed via an inclined ladder from the main deck passage. The engine compartment is found with propulsion, electrical power generation, bilge, fuel, pumps, fresh water, and ancillary equipment. Floors are found with steel diamond plate deck boards resting in steel frames.

Steering Room
The steering room is accessed through a non-watertight bulkhead opening from the engine room. Found are steering hydraulic equipment and steering gear, and two (2) domestic refrigeration compressor power packs.

Systems, Machinery and Equipment
Propulsion
Bow Thruster: A 6-bladed “Omnithruster” propeller is situated in a vertical tube set just aft of the forefoot of the bow with outlets port and stb just below the waterline. The thruster is driven through a 3” diameter stainless steel shaft, and a Twin Disc manual clutch gear and reduction gear by a Caterpillar 3306PL engine. The diesel engine is naturally aspirated, cooled through a keel mounted surface heat exchanger and pneumatically started. The engine is fit with a block water heater.
Serial Number: 66D24118 Arrangement: 4N9962
Service hours: 11,820
Installed: 1979
Bow thruster control power is provided by a hydraulic power pack with an internal pump in a 10-gallon tank driven by a 5-hp motor.

Main Engine: Caterpillar, model 399, diesel 16-cylinder, V-block, turbocharged engine develops 1125 –hp at 1225-rpm. The engine is turbocharged, after cooled and found with a pneumatic starter. The engine is cooled through keel-mounted surface heat exchangers. The dry exhaust is lagged, away from flammable materials, and runs through a venturi stack. The engine is fit with a block water heater and (3) Racor 10-micron fuel filters.
Serial Number: 91B1005
Service hours: 1231
Installed: 1978

Reduction/Reverse Gear: Caterpillar, model 7261 marine reverse and reduction gear with a 3.1:1 reduction forward and reverse.
Shaft: A 7.25” carbon steel alloy bar is from the reduction gear through a bronze water lubricated packing gland fit with tallow packing rings and a stern tube with water a lubricated bearing. A Mathers drum-type shaft brake is installed.
Propeller: 4-bladed, 82” x 69”, stainless steel, skewed blade.
Engine control is local and remote from the wheelhouse through a Mathers pneumatic control system.

Steering Gear
The hydraulic system is comprised of a single hydraulic oil reservoir serving two (2) Vickers, model V-20 hydraulic vane pumps each driven by a 7.5-hp electric motor, filter and relief valves, and a Vickers directional valve. A single 5” diameter stainless steel bar rudder post penetrates a flax packing gland. Opposing hydraulic rams are to a single tiller arm on the rudderpost.
Movement of the tiller is monitored and controlled by a follow-up sensor linked to the autopilot system. Autopilot controls in the pilothouse allow gyrocompass and magnetic steering compass as the primary inputs to the system.
Rudder: a single semi-balance rudder is bolted to a stock above fit and with a 4-3/4” diameter pintal inserting into a gudgeon carried by a shoe extension from the skeg bottom. Rudder dimensions are roughly 106” tall x 70” wide of 7/8” steel plate fit with two (2) 5-1/4” x 2” stiffeners.

Electric DC
Two (2) battery boxes atop the house each carry one (1) 12-volt battery.
The power supplies and battery chargers for wheelhouse electronics include:
One (1) NewMar 115-24-10
Two (2) Lewco, model 122000-ACD

One (1) 32-volt banks of (4) each 8-volt batteries are in the engine room for starting auxiliary engines, emergency lights and with a feed to the wheelhouse. Charging is by a Ratelco 1835 B 24-volt charger. Banks are fit with a knife type disconnect switches.

Electric AC
Distribution of AC electrical power from the three (3) ship’s service generators is through a Con-Select marine type dead front switching panel. The switchgear is equipped with instrumentation and controls for non-parallel operation, and bus connections made with fused circuit breakers within hinged access panels. Electrical conductors are armored type, led throughout the vessel in cable races with bulkhead and deck penetrations made with adequate seals or glands. Electrical conductors and fixtures in the switchgear are grounded and are marine type, exteriorly armored.   Lighting and receptacles are supplied with 120-volt, single phase, 60-cycle AC power. Motors over 1-hp are supplied with 220-volt, three phase, and 60-cycle power. A 60-amp shore power connection is in the deckhouse anteroom.

Port: A Caterpillar 3306, six-cylinder, straight block diesel engine produces 245-hp at 1800 rpm. The engine is found with an electric starter and is cooled through a keel-mounted surface heat exchanger. The dry exhaust is lagged, away from flammable materials, and runs through a venturi trunk. Fuel is filtered through Racor 10-micron filters. The engine is fit with a Walker “Air-Sep” air cleaner
Serial Number: 85Z214566 Arr: 108-2864
Service Units: 8761
Attachments:
Armature: A Caterpillar SR-4B generator develops 165 – kW at 1800 RPM
Serial Number: 6DG01178   Arr: 109-3784

Stb: A Caterpillar 3306, six-cylinder, straight block diesel engine produces 247-hp at 1800 rpm. The engine is found with a 24-volt electric starter. The engine is cooled through a keel-mounted surface heat exchanger. The dry exhaust is lagged, away from flammable materials, and runs through a venturi trunk.   Fuel is filtered through 10-micron filters.
Serial Number: 85Z15665 Arr: 184-7248
Service Units: 0
Installed: September 2004
Armature: A Caterpillar SR-4 generator develops 170 – kW, 213 kVA at 1800 RPM
Serial Number: 6DG02010    Arr: 109-3794

Aft port: A Caterpillar 3304B, four-cylinder, naturally aspirated straight block diesel engine produces 95-hp at 1800 rpm. The engine is found with an electric starter and is cooled through a keel-mounted surface heat exchanger. The dry exhaust is lagged, away from flammable materials, and runs through the passage forward to the exhaust casing. Fuel is filtered through Racor 10-micron filters.
Serial Number: not found
Service Units: not found – was 38,730 9/2002.
Armature: A Caterpillar SR-4 generator develops and estimated 40 – kW at 1800 RPM

Main and auxiliary engines are equipped with local controls and instrument panels, fuel and lubricating oil filters, speed-limiting governors, low oil pressure and high temperature sensors linked to automatic shut down controls.

Bilge/Fire Pumping System
Fire pump: Deming 4021 centrifugal pump with a 5-hp motor fit with 4” lines and ¼-turn butterfly valves.
Bilge pump: Deming 4021 centrifugal pump with a 5-hp motor fit with 4” lines and ¼-turn butterfly valves.
Forepeak bilge pump: A Flomax 10 centrifugal pump is driven by a 5-hp motor. Suction lines are of 2” diameter pipe to a sea chest, forward bilge, fuel and aft storage rooms.
A 4” trunk from the hold circulation suction is extended to the engine room bilge for use in emergency.

Oily water separator: World Water Systems, Helisep 500
A dirty oil pump out fitting is found on the aft 01 weather deck fit with a standard discharge flange.

Sewage
Sewage tank:
Sewage pump: The sewage tank is fit with a Scot Pump model 2952, 3x2” close-coupled motor pump driven by a 3-hp motor.
Toilet flushing pump: One (1) Jacuzzi, model 1RM2-S pump is driven by a 1-hp electric motor is to a Teel, 32-gallon pressure vessel and fit with a demand pressure switch.

Fresh Water
Potable water generator: Fresqua II, reverse osmosis potable water generator with a 40-gph capacity.
Watermaker supply pump: centrifugal pump with 1-hp motor

One (1) Jacuzzi, model 1RM2-S pump driven by a 1- hp electric motor is to a pressure vessel fit with a demand pressure switch.
Filtration: two (2) in-line canister filters
Hot water tank – 100-gallon (estimated) electric
Lines: steel
Potable Water Capacity: 8,323 – gallons in four (4) integral tanks

Sea Water Supply
A hold flooding and circulation system is fit with:
Four (4) Crane-Deming, model 4021 6x5x10 centrifugal pumps driven by 25-hp motors through steel 6” piping fit with butterfly valves and sacrificial zinc anodes. Piping is fit to allow pumps to serve multiple tanks.

Fuel
Vents: Fuel tanks are vented through the rail with 3” diameter steel gooseneck pipe fit with 4” bells and screen in containments port and stb forward the deck house.
Fills: 2” diameter extended pipe with containments.
Centrifuge: Westfalia, model OTA 2-00-066, fuel oil separator.
Manifold: Port and stb manifolds include suction and discharge sides of 5” diameter steel pipe with 2” diameter trunk lines fit with ball valves. Each manifold has gear pump is driven by a 3 hp electric motor and a Tuthill “Fill-Rite” fuel meter.
Filtration: three (3) Racor 10-micron filter for the main engine and two (2) system filters.

Fuel tanks: capacity = 48,000 – gallons in eight (8) integral tanks – Typically the double bottom tanks are pressed up with water, leaving a remaining fuel capacity of 9,800 – gallons.

Tank                        Capacity (approx.)
DBTM1.P                3,077 - gallons
DBTM1.S                3,077 - gallons
DBTM2.P                3,076 - gallons
DBTM2.S                3,076 - gallons
FOWING.P                12,970 - gallons
FOWING.S                12,970 - gallons
FODAY.P                   2,169 - gallons
FODAY.S                   2,169 - gallons

Refrigeration
Two (2) refrigeration compressor power packs in the steering gear compartment serve the galley walk-in and reach-in lockers.
A Copeland, model C7AB0150TAC001, R-507 refrigeration power pack and a Copeland “Copelemetic” power pack are to single-fan evaporators in the port and stb bait lockers.
Refrigerated Sea Water system:
Compressors: one (1) Carlisle, model 5H40-1544 reciprocating compressor driven by a 50-hp electric motor.
Receivers: One (1) Standard, model 60122 high pressure receiver.
Suction accumulator: one (1) Sporlan, model S7731
Condenser: one (1) Standard, model MS40-610MZ
Circulation pump: one (1) Cascade, 6” x 5” x 10” centrifugal vertical mount pump driven by a 15-hp electric motor and fit with 6” lines with zinc anodes and regulated by ¼-turn butterfly valves.
Condenser Pumps: One (1) Vertiflo, model 1320, 3” x 2-1/2” x 7” Centrifugal pump with a 3-hp motor.
Chiller: PSER, model 50TR box chiller in refrigeration machinery compartment
Refrigerant leak monitor: CPS monitor located in the refrigeration machinery space.
Control panel: Marine electric

Hydraulics
The port and stb Cat 3306 auxiliary engines each drive two (2) Vickers 4 x 1 x 1-1/2 vane pumps through a Marco pump drive and Bevis pneumatic clutch. Clutch activation is through a Marco clutch control panel.
Hydraulic oil reservoir: estimated 500-gallon capacity in one (1) non-integral tank.
Deck fittings are protected with grease tape.

Lube Oil
Transfer Pump: manual rotary pump
Storage Tank – 398 - gallons in two (2) non-integral tanks

Compressed Air
Two (2) Saylor Beall, model 705 two-stage reciprocating compressor are driven through belts by 5-hp motors.
The compressors feed two (2) 300-gallon (est) air receivers in the engine room.

Welding and Repair Equipment
Lincoln AC/DC welder
Oxygen and Acetylene torch set with (2) acetylene cylinders and (2) oxygen cylinders
Hand and power tools
Parts bins, Spare pumps and motors
Workbench
Bench grinder, 6” Delta
Orbit, model OR 1012, 5-speed drill press
Bench vise

Other Equipment
One (1) Johnson 35-hp outboard motor
One (1) 13’ fiberglass skiff with 25-hp outboard motor
One (1) spare crane winch
One (1) Cat Pumps, model 247 triplex pump pressure washer with 2-hp electric motor

Documentation, Publications, Logs and Postings

Certificate of Documentation
Stability Letter Operating Instructions
Stability Book – Elliot Bay Design Group
FCC Ship Station License
FCC Ship Radio Safety Certificate
FCC Vessel Bridge to Bridge Telephony Certificate
Master’s radio operators license
Federal Certificate of Financial Responsibility
Alaska Certificate of Financial Responsibility –
Federal Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan
Alaska Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan
Navigation Log
USCG safety inspection
Garbage Log
Radio Log
Navigation Charts – corrected for operating area
Compass Deviation Table
Required CFRs
ColRegs-
Coast Pilots for areas of operation – 7,8,9
Light List
Tide Tables
Current Tables
NPFVOA Safety Manual
First Aid Card
CPR Card
Drill Instructor Certified - vessel master Keith Colburn
Drills conducted monthly
Donning of Exposure Suits
Station Bill
Procedures for Making a Distress Call
Survival Craft Boarding
7 Day Injury Notification
Man Overboard Procedures –
Procedures for Rough Weather at Sea
Drug Policy
Pollution Placards
Waste Management Plan Posted
Garbage Placard
Procedures for Anchoring
Procedures for Firefighting
Procedures for Flooding
Oil Spill Response Plan

Content taken from the marine survey of the Wizard, prepared by

Fishermen's Maritime Services, Inc. of Seattle WA. boatsafety@gmail.com

General Information

Official Number: 594470
Type: Fishing Vessel – Crab and groundfish fishing with pot gear.
Former Names: M/V YO 210, M/V CLIFFORD K
US Navy Unit Identification Code: 10710
Similar vessels: F/V STORMY SEA
Flag: US
LOA: 156 feet
Registered Length: 150.7’ ft.
Breadth: 30.1 ft.
Depth: 13.1 ft.
Registered Gross Tons: 499.5
Registered Net Tons: 371
Year Built: 1945 By: Ira Bushey and Sons, Inc. of Brooklyn, NY
Hull Number: YO 210
Service: commercial fishing
Waters Navigated: Oceans, Puget Sound, Gulf of Alaska, Alaska near coastal, and Bering Sea.
Port of Registry: Seattle, WA
Radio Call Sign: WCX 5147
Boat Inmarsat Number: 011 8816 3144 5681
ADFG Number: 35265
Classification: Not classed – classification not required for current service.
Inspection: not inspected –Inspection is not required for current service.
Fuel Capacity: 48,000 – gallons in 8 integral tanks
Lube Oil: 398 gallons in one integral tanks
Potable Water Capacity: 8,323 – gallons in four (4) integral tanks
Shaft HP: 1,125 – hp at 1225 rpm on a single shaft
Crew size: typical 6 – 8 POB, berths are for 12