Keeping the Sabino shipshape at Mystic Seaport
October 21, 2014 12:00 am
• Last Updated: October 22, 2014 12:19 am
Karl Kohler, a deckhand on Mystic Seaport's steamship Sabino, sands the remnants of barnacles off the ship's propeller Monday, October 20, 2014. The Sabino, built in 1908 and the last wooden, coal-fired steamboat in operation in the U.S., will be out of the water at the seaport's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard for several days of maintenance and a U.S. Coast Guard inspection. Kohler said the prop was covered quite extensively with very large barnacles. He believes they were robbing the vessel of a great deal of power during its multiple daily trips on the Mystic River.
Karl Kohler, a deckhand on Mystic Seaport's steamship Sabino, sands the remnants of barnacles off the ship's propeller Monday, October 20, 2014. The Sabino, built in 1908 and the last wooden, coal-fired steamboat in operation in the U.S., will be out of the water at the seaport's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard for several days of maintenance and a U.S. Coast Guard inspection. Kohler said the prop was covered quite extensively with very large barnacles. He believes they were robbing the vessel of a great deal of power during its multiple daily trips on the Mystic River.
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