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Repowering the Tregurtha is Topic of Door County Maritime Museum's January Event
By Door County Maritime Museum
Jan 4, 2012 - 8:45:00 AM
The Door County Maritime Museum’s Speaker Series resumes after the holidays with a program literally and figuratively geared towards the big ships that ply the Great Lakes and what makes them go.
Ken Westcar will recount the repowering of the 1,000-ft. self-unloader Paul R. Tregurtha at Bay Shipbuilding on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum.
“The program will discuss how local expertise and an unwavering commitment to quality provided the vessel owners with a renewed asset that left the Sturgeon Bay yard on-time and on-budget and has since completed two full operating seasons with zero downtime while setting a precedent for future ship repowers in Sturgeon Bay,” explained Westcar. “There is also a short video showing how the new MaK engines can be equipped to run primarily on natural gas and therefore meet future exhaust emissions regulations without impairing ship efficiency and productivity.”
Westcar has been with the Caterpillar marine dealer organization for nearly 45 years with initial experience coming from the United Kingdom’s North Sea oil and gas exploration and production. Over ensuing years he has worked with a wide variety of maritime interests in assisting them in their fleet modernization efforts. A member of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering, the Ontario resident assumed responsibility for the sale and application of Caterpillar’s MaK medium-speed diesel engines for the entire Great Lakes in 2004 and he and his team have executed many repowers of U.S. and Canadian flagged vessels.
The Speaker Series will continue the first Thursday in February and March with programs relating on current and future work at Bay Shipbuilding followed by a presentation on the War of 1812 and its impact on the Great Lakes. The series concludes on Thursday, March 29, with a presentation on the Museum’s hugely popular boat building program.
All of the programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay museum. They are free of charge and open to the public with donations appreciated.
For more information contact the Museum at 920-743-5958 or visit www.dcmm.org.
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