Sand Man is tugboatmuseum ship of the Sand Man Foundation at Percival Landing, Olympia, Washington. The Sand Man Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Sand Man was built in 1910 by Crawford and Reid in Tacoma, Washington . Sand Man is small harbor tug, built out of old-growth Douglas fir.[3]Sand Man was designed and built by Crawford and Reid in Tacoma, Washington, from 1908 to 1910. The ship's wheel-house was designed and built by the Long family, Olympia. Jake Frisch built the doors and windows in 1910. The hull restoration was completed in 2000 by PT Shipwrights Co-op, in Port Townsend, Washington. The cabins and engine restoration was completed in 2005 by Paul Deranleau and his crew of volunteers in Olympia, after being out of the water for 7 years for work at Swantown Marina. Sand Man originally it had copper sheathing to protect the hull, later this was replaced with ironbark wood sheathing. The ship still has the original Stanley Steamer engine used for the towing winch that is run by compressed air. Only a few of this type of tug remain.[4] From 1910 to 1987 Sand Man operated as a commercial tugboat and towboat in Puget Sound, with home port in Olympia. In 1974 Sand Man ran she first race in Olympia's annual Labor Day tugboat races held in the Olympia Harbor Days Festival.[5] In 1998 Sand Man was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for vessels on August 6, 1998, as #98001018. She is also listed on the registers of Washington state Historic Site, and Historic Site by the City of Olympia.[4]
History
Owners:
1910 – 1925 Arthur J. Weston, owner of Olympia Sand & Gravel Company. used to tow barges of sand and gravel, thus the ships name.[6]
1925 – 1955 Delta V. Smyth (a local lumberman) who owned of Delta Smyth Tug & Barge Company.[7]
1955 – 1964 Fred Chadwick who owned Capitol City Towing Company.
1964 – 1987 Franz Schlottmann who owned Schlottmann Excavating & Towing
1987 – 1997 Bob Powell who started some restoration of Sand Man and donated it to The Sand Man Foundation.
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