Engine Room Tricks of the Trade with F/V Oregon Captain Jon
F/V Oregon, Trident Seafoods, SE Alaska, Tender – Salty Sea Dog Captain Jon Franklin of the F/V Oregon – School of Hard Knocks! Mr. Tricks of the Trade! The Oregon has made 4 transits through the Panama Canal, been as far south as Argentina on the Atlantic, as far Northeast as Georges Bank, and as far south as 50th south in the Pacific Ocean as far west as Palau. The boat packs 300,000 pounds in 6 tanks of refrigerated sea water. Her LOA is 100 ft. with a beam of 26’ ft, she burns 9 – 10 gallons per hour, and the engine room is bigger and taller than most downtown metropolitan condos. Built in the 1940s, she’s an oldie and a goodie- they don’t make boats like the F/V Oregon anymore, with its rich history, tradition and salty seasoned sea time.
Somewhat oversized engine room! F/V Oregon: A big freaking engine room!
Titanium Chiller – capacity of 60 tons
10 fuel tanks
16,000 gallons fuel
2,000 gallons fresh water
800 hp v12 Cummins K238
530 twin disc 5:1 gear box
2 – 105kW Caterpillar generator sets
Deck Pumps = 350 gal/min. Teels -self primers
Recor Filters exclusively on the boat – all the same filters for everything.
The main engine was out of a Fast Ferry in Singapore and brought out of Vietnam – from a Broker in New Brunswick.
“This engine is so smooth and so quiet on deck that you can hardly hear it – it’s quieter than most cars. The boat was a research boat for South Carolina, and before that it was a NOAA boat. This boat was with the Fish and Wildlife Service from 1950 to 1964. In 1968, it was brought back out here to Alaska where is did the majority of the early Trawl Surveys for Cod and Pollock on the Alaska Peninsula and the Bering Sea, AK,” describes Jon.
Tricks of the trade – Maritime Master Captain Jon Franklin F/V Oregon – Trident Seafoods SE AK Fleet Manager!
