”Let’s keep traditional steam boats in
use and in good conditions forever!””
.

Puumala’s regatta, Sahanlahti quay, 2007.		 This is the motto of the Steam Boat Association, agreed upon also by museums, and therefore also the Ministry of Education supported a large number of steam boats’ basic repairs, including the Warkaus as well.

The successful Finnish Steam Yacht Association, which aim is to put together old steam boats’ repairers, was founded in 1968. You can find more information on the Finnish Steam Yacht Association at the address:
steamship.fi.

Duringt the years, many repairs and changes were done on the Warkaus,
beside the normal maintenance works:
1936

1948

1970

1980

1988

1990


1993


1998


2000-luku

Kitchen and cockpit to the deck / bridge higher and new (154 pieces) fire pipes to the boiler

Popeller tunnel for a better tug performance

RAY steam turbine and electric drive, removal of the grating and 4000 litres fuel tanks in the log boxes

The tug machine of the quarter deck was moved ashore for storing

Own quay in Ristiina

Completely new furnishings in the aft cabins and suit room for two people instead of the water storage tanks’ room

Third tubes (154 pieces) to the boiler. Propeller tunnel removal from the prop for a better navigation and fuel saving

New planks from the funnel to the bottom of the bow and sheet metal (8mm) of 40m2 for the ”ice-breaker”. Also renovation of the front cabins’ original wood structure

According to the EU directive, water toilet with a 300 litres septic tank, GPS and electronic sea charts for a better safety


Photos of repairs and changes:

Propeller tunnel, Saksala shipyard in Mikkeli, 1970s. Removing the propeller tunnel, Laitaatsilta shipyard in Savonlinna, 1993. New planks for the bottom of the bow and new sheet metals at the Laitaatsilta shipyard, 1998.


The home port of the Warkaus is being built in Ristiina: fixing the poles, winter 1987. Jaakko Löppönen supervises. On the background, left, the building engineer Niilo Kurvinen.
Inauguration of the Jaskan Möljä (Jaska’s mole) in occasion of Jaakko Löppönen’s 70th birthday, 29.6.1988.
Sand blasting and painting of the sides of the Warkaus on its own quay in Ristiina, 1990.

Paula painting in spring 2009.
Paula and Topi painting in spring 2009.