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My name is Cary. I have recently acquired a Fishboat built by Seattle Boat Works in 1928. She's in pretty good original shape and I'm interested in an engine of this period to put back in it. It currently has a Detroit with no head. I'm a diesel mechanic that works on new marine stuff ie. CAT, Cummins etc. I've been a marine guy all my life. This boat will never fish again so I'd like to try and make it as original as possible. Any hope for finding a west coast engine that may have been used originally in these boats? 

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The boat came here in the forties and was well known along Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. I found it in Half Moon Bay about 20 miles south of there. I work in a boatyard here and we do restorations of wood boats and old engines and generators though nothing quite as old as this. We recently completed work on a 1939 42' Nunes Bro's. They built in SF mostly commercial so doing a sport runabout this age and size from them was unusual. We also reframed and planked a whaleboat for the local rowing club. My expertise is mechanical though and worked tugs for a number of years mostly older WW2 diesel electric boats with all the knife switches, etc.I'd like to maybe find a smaller Atlas the same vintage as the boat to add some authenticity to it. This boat will never commercial fish again some day trips or over night fishing trips with the family.

I'll e-mail some pictures when I can download them.