Preservation Planning
Experienced Professional Planning for Your Historic Vessel, Afloat or Ashore
Successful historic preservation projects require effective planning. Such efforts always face slim resources, multi-decade project timelines, and irreversible consequences to any major failures.
Historic preservation plans must be strategic, flexible, robust, and cognizant of the particular circumstances of each historic maritime resource. Cutwater is here to make sure it is done right.
Vessel Preservation Plans
Cutwater began its work in developing historic vessel preservation master plans, incorporating best practices and management guidelines. Most of the historic museum ships in Seattle have preservation master plans written by Cutwater.
Visitor Experience Design
Cutwater has experience designing new visitor experiences for historic sites, including pathways, exhibit signage and artifact displays, and emergency egress.
Structural Stabilization
Structural subsidence is common in both historic ships and shore facilities. Cutwater’s experience and familiarity with such structures can help trace, identify, and analyze structural issues and the historic methods of construction that cause them as well as identify possible solutions, often making the best use of the original structure’s remaining strength. This kind of work can also include shoreside hull support cradles or deck reinforcement for machinery and other localized loads.
