PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Natural Resources and the Makah tribe are pressuring him to move the old Kalakala ferry out of Neah Bay by Sept. 15 at the latest.
Steve Rodrigues seems unfazed.
“Everything is going great,” the Kalakala’s owner says.
“The ship’s going to be out by the 15th.”
But Rodrigues, interviewed Wednesday, declined to detail how and to where he would tow the rusting 276-foot, 69-year-old art deco ferry, saying only that arrangements were being made.
Rodrigues’ combination office and Kalakala museum on North Lincoln Street is just off the waterfront.
It is about 200 yards west of a spot in Port Angeles Harbor where he dreams of mooring a restored Kalakala and building the “Kalakala Resort” by 2009.
