Save the WAPAMA!

Steam Schooner WAPAMA: Sole survivor of over 200 ships of her type

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Government Fiasco
• SOS!
• Steam Schooner
• San Francisco Historic Ship
• National Park Service
• NPS
• Historic Ship Rotting

[hedablinka]

What none of these photos show is the elegant interior. It may have been a work boat but those who worked aboard her had some pretty nice circumstances, especially the officers.

[spyglass250]

I would love to have been able to include interior photos, but I was not allowed to board her on this photo shoot, and I could not find the pics I took when we were holding meetings aboard, nor when we were working aboard in '84. (26 years and 2 moves!) If I ever find them, I will post tnem or add to the video.

Thanks for your comments

[wynegoddess]

Thank you! I worked on this beautiful ship for three years while she was in Sausalito, then life changed for me and I moved away. A couple of years ago, I was driving a client to the Red Oak Victory and I turned a corner, and there she was. My heart sank. So sad to see her like this. Please, if you're reading this, follow the instructions at the end of this video. Save the Wapama!

[regular987]

@DOCandKATE: She was in drydock through the Reagan Administration (8 Years), the GHW Bush Administration (4 years), the Clinton Administration (8 Years), and the GW Bush Administration (8 years). By my count, that makes 20 years where Republican administrations could've done something, and 10 years (including the present admin) where Democrats could've done something.

Looks to me like Republicans ruined the Wapama. Glad we spent all of that restoration money on MX missiles.

[fiercebrett]

nice video, i remember my dad and i going to see her on the barge in sausalito when i was a kid, must have gone down there a dozen times. awesome music btw

[cmikehere]

Hey! I grew up in San Francisco and back in the 60's as a teen went on board she was a proud ship her line were nice for an old gal then, today I'm 63. Years later I worked with a deck hand who use to sail on her,Les Hanson, That was more than 30 years ago. I use to volunteer down at Hyde St. Pier and I have digital video on board she is in Richmond.

I have made many videos of the ships on the pier and I'm thinking of making DVD's ...

[hedablinka]

I wouldn't blame the park service. The plight of the Wapama is similar to historic preservation ashore: People run to preserve a victorian house, but can't understand why they should save a 1950's bank. Sailing ships: Must save. Steam ships? Eh, why? The park service has only cosmetically restored the Eureka, whose paddles have all but rotted away. It does what it can, and if the anti tax crowd had their way all the ships would be sold for scrap.

[DOCandKATE]

This is an OUTRAGE!!! I went on the Wapama as a kid, in the 70's, and she was in great shape then.

After all Karl Kortum did, to save Wapama, these Politically correct miscreants at NPS have destroyed a Nat'l Treasure, these shameless Rat Bastards! And these same incompetents want to take over our Health Care System? God Help Us All!!!!

JWC Engineer/Gunner Californian 1995