Day 7

13 July 2020

Demo Day

Out with the old and rusted, in with the new radar service platform, whistle platform and yard brace.

Week two began with “Demo Day.” Our Midshipmen Brendan Lutz and Jack Carbone spray painted red all the items on the mast that needed removal, to make the restoration authentic. On Monday, 13 July, Hector Sousa’s crew began cutting off the platforms, wiring, and equipment that had been added since the end of World War II. We soon had a sizeable pile of scrap on the pier. On Tuesday, 14 July, a major milestone occurred, when the first piece of newly fabricated equipment, the SL radar service platform, was welded in place on to the mast.

The crew started setting the blocks for us in drydock number 5. Thomas has been detailing the pilot house. and Gary restored the wardroom pantry refrigerator to operating condition.

Gary working on the refrigerator in the wardroom pantry.

Ed working on the lights from the yardarm

These are the men who really make things happen. Jack Carbone, Brendan Lutz and Danny Statile, designed and built the platform, but it's the unsung shipyard workers at Caddell Dry Dock who got the platform in place.

Getting the blocks ready for us in drydock.

In with the new... SL Radar Service Platform