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                                         Alert News Alert

Welcome to the Alert News Alert where you’ll find the latest news about what is happening with the Old Cutter Alert and what else is needed to help restore and preserve this fine old vessel. 


                         A Couple Photos from Fans of the Alert


    
        Photo by Johnathan McCool

                  

    Photo by Don MacDonald
  

                                         Summer 2011

Much has happened this summer... Bill Lacy found a source for the hard-to-find brushes for the gensets. Bill now has the stbd. genset up and running like new and the port genset is almost ready to go. Bill and Walt also got the main engines started. The mains had not run in almost 3 years and both 268a Clevelands fired right up and ran like tops! Walt has built a structure over the superstructure and when it's roofed over it will help limit water intrusion this winter.


                                Wedensday Feb. 23, 2011

It's been a long winter... Bill Lacy and Walt James have been on the boat quite a bit since the move and have the stbd. generator just about up and running. Looks like Bill is going to have to fabricate an exhaust manifold for the 2-71 diesel engine that runs it. 

Walt is working on a canopy to tent off the boat deck and overhang the gunwales port and starboard and there are volunteers waiting to get started on spring clean-up as soon as the weather gets a little warmer. 

We also need to work on funding so we can get the old girl into dry-dock and see just what her bottom really looks like. But... before we do that, we need enough $$ in the kitty to cover any surprises we may find.

             Moving The Alert - Tuesday November 2, 2010

The Alert was moved to her new Moorage today. It was a very foggy morning but Capt. Clark Capel and the tug Ramona III were at the ship at about 0930 hours. We had to secure the alert to the tug and wait for the fog to lift a little... We were under way at about 1100.

        

        

For the last two and a half years the Alert has been anchored out on the Multnomah Channel near Scappoose, Oregon and this has been a good moorage for her but, she was not very accessable to work parties and just getting out to her was a bit of an adventure.

       
  L to Rt. Richard Rich, Russ Cole, Ramona III deckhand Mike Hart and Bill Lacy

We got underway and brought her up the Multnomah Channel, then down the Willamette River to its confluence with the Columbia River at Kelly Point and then up the Columbia on the south side of Hayden Island and through the railroad swing bridge into North Portland Harbor. 

    

She is now anchored in North Portland Harbor, Just downstream from I-5 and Diversified Marine Services. The next step is to get her mains fired up (they haven't been run in two years) and give the old girl a good cleaning!

       

A BIG thank you to all the people that helped out with the move: Walt James (our intreped motavator), Capt. Richard Rich (...thanks for the string cheese!), Harold Elliot and Gene Elliot (...thanks for the muffins!), Capt. Russ Cole (moral support), Bill Lacy (#1 snipe) and of course, yours truly, David Fouch.

I also want to give a BIG thank you to the skipper and crew of the tug, Ramona III: Capt. Clark Capel and deckhand Mike Hart. They did a very professional job and the Alert couldn't have been in better hands. THANK YOU CLARK!

We now need to do some serious fund raising so we can get enough in our battle chest to get the Alert dry-docked, get her bottom cleaned, surveyed and repaired if neccessary and then get the work signed-off by a marine architect. 

If you are interested in volunteering or donating to the cause, please contact us at info@oldcutteralert.com Please be sure to include the words "alert volunteer" in the subject line. 
                     
                       We Need A Volunteer Researcher/Archivist

We need someone who will do some research for the Alert. We want to compile as complete a list of ALL the Alert's past crew members as possible (1927-1969). And we would like to contact as many living crew members as we can. We're looking for old photos, film clips and relevant articles in the press. We're also interested in finding her old logs if they still exist and we arer particularly interested in knowing more about her WWII service with the Navy. This is the kind of work that can be done from home anywhere in the country. So, if this sound like something you would like to help us with, please email me! dave@oldcutteralert.com
  
                                          The Alert Needs YOUR Help!

There are some things on our “to-do list” that can only be done in a proper shipyard/dry-dock environment and that costs money. We also need a thorough marine survey and a COI from the US Coast Guard so that the Alert can once again take part in on-the-water events throughout her original western United States patrol area. The Cutter Alert Preservation Team Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and we depend on your tax-deductable donations. Please help us save the Alert…  

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C.A.P.T.

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