Campbell Maritime’s headquarters is at the Lake Union Drydock Company, so our friend Brian Campbell has been able to watch the process of dismantling the Wawona. He’s taken lots of picture, of which a couple are included below. Wawona is the historic lumber schooner, built in 1897, that we’ve discussed quite a bit recently.
[Brian Campbell photo]
At this point, she’s sitting in a drydock on Lake Union, being taken apart with chainsaws and the like. Folks from Northwest Seaport, including a team of marine archeologists from East Carolina University, are documenting as they go. Here is one of their drawings:
As a kid, I was always fascinated by those cool “cutaway” illustrations, showing what you would see if the airplane or vessel or spacecraft were magically sliced through. Somehow, this picture isn’t exciting in the same way. Not at all.
[Brian Campbell photo]
