PORT ANGELES — Two gigantic “ifs” are standing in the way of this weekend’s plan to tow the historical Kalakala ferry from Seattle to Neah Bay.
The trip will go off as planned “if:”
* Owner Steve Rodrigues, a Tumwater businessman can find a tugboat with engines generating 2,000 horsepower.
* The weather cooperates.
“We met with the Coast Guard on Wednesday and Thursday and plan to meet with them today,” said Rodrigues.
“Our tow plan is due by 2 p.m. (today) If it’s not ready, then we won’t be allowed to go over the weekend,” Rodrigues said.
Rodrigues said he had originally planned to use a 900-horsepower tugboat to tow the 1935 art deco-style ferry from its current moorage on Lake Union to Neah Bay starting Sunday.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News.
