The end of the Kalakala ....

[JohnM]

Hmmm? I can't make up my mind\whether I like this or not. It's certainly got "Style". My first thoughts were ... If it was painted red and in a Dan Dare comic strip, ... I'd probably love it.

[RichO]

my dad was a deck hand on this boat. I remember old family photos of my dad on the car deck. The cars sorta looked like this also.

[WVA]

Beauty, or not, it is certainly iconic! What strikes me is, at 280 feet long, and who knows what displacement, it is only a single screw. Must have taken a very skilled pilot to get her into a berth on a windy day!

Jim

[BigGiraffe]

There are no paper models of the Kalakala, nor any other Washington State ferryboat. I'd very much enjoy building these in 1/400 scale (to go with my ocean liners and such). I wonder why the lack of interest?

Sorry to see the Kalakala gone... another memory from my childhood.

Best regards,
Kurt

[kcorbin]

No so much a lack of interest as the lack of dimensioned drawings available for reference.

[BigGiraffe]

Oh, I had not realized there weren't drawings anywhere. Length and width are available online, but that's quite different from having all the measurements needed for designing a model. Thank you for pointing that out to me.

Best regards,
Kurt

[hillsden]

Found these somewhere, hope they help. She ran between Victoria BC and Port Angeles Wa when I was a kid. I won the odd day trip by selling newspaper subscriptions.

[Padre]

Youtube video http://www.kalakala.org/

[sharunas]

Originally Posted by hillsden

Found these somewhere, hope they help. She ran between Victoria BC and Port Angeles Wa when I was a kid. I won the odd day trip by selling newspaper subscriptions.

Great blueprints. Thanks a lot!

[BigGiraffe]

Wow! It looks quite a bit different between above water and underwater than I thought!
Thanks!
Kurt