Ships are universally women.

But, this one, she's named David.

Hear that?

That's her heartbeat.

She was rescued from Lopez Islands.

Let's go meet the man who brought her back to life.

This is Captain Jeffrey.

Jeffrey, can you tell us a little bit about this amazing vessel?

I just heard you talk about the engine as the heart of the vessel.

That's right.

And that's reall..

It really is the thing that gets us safely and reliably into the wilderness, up in Alaska and in the San Juan Islands and back home again.

You want to go see it?

I would love to.

Let's go.

Yeah.

Yep.

We're going down there.

All right.

Let's go.

So this is the original engine in the boat from 1929.

It's rated at 100 horsepower at 325 rpm.

And that's about a 10th the speed that a modern engine goes.

But it's got a lot of torque.

And it spins a big propeller.

Well is it time to get it going?

Yep.

So the first thing we have to do is we have to oil the outside of the engine in 84 spots.

Wow.

It's kind of like the Tin Man with the oil can.

Here, you can do it.

Okay.

Right here?

Yep.

And so we do this every two hours?

Every couple hours we have to come down here and do this while .. Amazing.

Yeah.

This i.. Yeah.

In this time period, havin.. was a very low cost relative to other things.

And so having somebody have to tend to your machinery was very common.

So to get the engine running, we have to put it in the right spot.

And to do that we have to look at the camshaft in here.

And then Angela's going to turn the engine by hand to the right spot.

So give that a pull.

Oh.

Nice.

So we're trying to get it to the right spot over here.

Right there.

This is one of seven engines that's still, in existence that's still running, that was made by this company, and they made thousands of engines.

What happened to most of the other ones?

A lot of them were recycled in the Second World War for the steel in them.

And people replaced them with more modern engines.

Nice.

What year was this guy made?..

Oh, okay.

Here we go.

Starting engine.

Starting engine.

This has been an experience I will never forget.

Thank you for having me.

I'm Angela.

Thanks for exploring.

I'll see you.