Sand Man (tugboat)

{{Short description|Tugboat built in 1910}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox ship begin|infobox caption=Sand Man}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Sand Man tug 01A.jpg |Ship image size=300px |Ship caption=Sand Man tugboat }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|USA|civil}} |Ship name= |Ship namesake= Moving sand barges |Ship owner= 1910 – 1925 Arthur J. Weston, owner of Olympia Sand & Gravel Co. 1925 – 1955 Delta V. Smyth, owner of Delta Smyth Tug & Barge Co. 1955 – 1964 Fred Chadwick and Capitol City Towing Co. 1964 – 1987 Franz Schlottmann and Schlottmann Excavating & Towing 1987 – 1997 Bob Powell 1997 – present The Sand Man Foundation |Ship operator= |Ship builder= Crawford and Reid in Tacoma, Washington |Ship completed=1910 |Ship in service=

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| name = Sand Man (tugboat)

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| location = Percival Landing

| coordinates = {{coord|47|02|48|N|122|54|15|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|type:landmark_region:US-WA}}

| area = Olympia, Washington

| built = 1910, Tacoma, Washington

| architect = Crawford and Reid

| architecture = Sawn old-growth Douglas fir, plank on frame

| added = August 6, 1998 {{NRISref|2007a}}{{Cite web|url=https://olympiahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sand-man.pdf|title=NRHP form 98001018}}

| refnum = 98001018

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Sand Man is tugboat museum 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.{{cite web|title=Tugboat Sandman|url=http://www.tugsandman.org/index.htm|website=Tugboat Sandman|accessdate=2 October 2016}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tugsandman.org/prerestoration.html|title=Tug Boat Sand Man Pre-restoration|website=www.tugsandman.org}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harbordays.com/|title=Olympia Harbor Days | 3-Day Festival Featuring the World's Largest Vintage Tugboat Races!|website=Olympia Harbor Days | 3-Day Festival Featuring the World's Largest Vintage Tugboat Races!}} 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.