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A typical summer day at the Charleston, Oregon shipyard. A couple of miles east at North Bend it was hot and sunny. I believe that's the Esther Louise getting the new planks, and we're peering under the stern of the dragger Zarembo II. (39K)
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The Antarctic research ship Hero getting some help from the Umpqua River Navigation towboat Juno IV after she ran aground trying to leave the dock in Reedsport, Oregon where she had been on display for an Arctic exploration museum that never got off the ground. A couple who own a shipyard on the Columbia bought Hero and she will be rebuilt as a yacht. (43K)

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The Frank Prothero built schooner Alcyone (1956) showing off in front of the ferry landing in Port Townsend. (60K)
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Alcyone giving everybody waiting for the Keystone ferry a perfect photo op. (49K)

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Alcyone heading off to zip around the moored boats at Port Townsend. (42K)
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The fishing boat Alava, built as a tugboat in Washington in 1929, sitting on the bottom at Florence, Oregon. Condemned as a nuisance, Alava may be refloated and then sunk as fish habitat on the north fork of the Siuslaw River. (38K)
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