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Lint said he plans to bring
the watercraft down to Asto-
ria sometime next month —
weather permitting — just in
time for the Astoria Bridge’s
50th anniversary celebration.
“We plan to be back in the
water within two weeks,” he
said. “I’m ready to go down the
coast when we get out of the dry
dock.”
Next week, the board is hold-
ing the ferry’s irst fundraising
event 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednes-
day at Street 14 Coffee.
The nonproit needs about
$50,000 to pay for the shipyard
work in Washington, a marine
survey that will allow the board
to purchase fuel, insurance, the
rest of Lint’s deposit and addi-
tional costs, according to board
Vice-Chairwoman
Dulcye
Taylor.
The event will feature historic
photos of the 92-year-old ves-
sel, and board members will be
around to chat about the ferry’s
history. Joe Leahy, a board mem-
ber, will give a short presentation
at the top of every hour.
“It’s information sharing, it’s
friend-raising, it’s fundraising,”
Taylor said.
Cindy Price, a board mem-
ber and Astoria city councilor,
said she hopes the fundraiser
draws former ferry workers.
“I’d love to meet those guys in
person,” she said.
‘Part of our history’
These major leaps forward
follow a slow but steady year-
long push to get the Tourist No.
2 back on the Columbia River.
The ferry carried riders and
their cars between Astoria and
Washington from 1924 to 1966,
when the bridge made it and the
rest of the city’s ferries obsolete.
“It’s a huge part of our his-
tory,” Price said.
Almost a year ago Rob-
ert “Jake” Jacob, the major-
ity owner of the Cannery Pier
Hotel, got word that the Tour-
ist No. 2 — which had been
renamed MV Kirkland — still
existed. Though he and other
community members hoped to
haul it home last year, the task
proved more involved than the
organizers had anticipated.
When the ferry arrives, it
will be docked at 17th Street,
an email from the board mem-
bers said.
“We are weighing options for
long-term docking, including at
one of the (Port of Astoria’s)
marine basins,” they wrote, add-
ing that the ferry’s original dock
at 14th Street needs some work
before it can be used.
The Tourist No. 2 won’t be
just another piece of Astoria’s
vintage eye-candy: The business
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Melissa Lynch, marketing director for the Tourist No. 2, aka MV
Kirkland in Bremerton, Wash., stands beneath five years of
tube worm growth on the bottom of the ferry, which is getting
pressure-washed at Northlake Shipyard in Seattle this week.
plan includes shuttling locals
and visitors along the riverfront,
à la the Astoria Riverfront Trol-
ley. Eventually, the ferry may be
rented out for private parties and
chartered excursions.
“This could be the start of
something big again,” said
Price, who said she’d like to see
the ferry featured in this year’s
Astoria Regatta.
At 110 feet long, 39 feet
wide and 40 feet tall, the three-
deck, wooden-hull ferry, built
with old-growth timber, can
accommodate more than 150
people depending on how it is
used, Lint said.
“It’s going to be a fun thing,”
Andrea Perez, a board member
and local historian, said. “It’s
going to be a lot of work, and an
adventure: A hundred-year-old
boat is going to have a lot of his-
tory, and need a lot of love.”
‘A remarkable feat’
Donations are needed make
it all happen. Specialists have
told the board the ferry will cost
approximately $350,000 in the
irst 18 to 24 months, before full
operation. That igure includes
moorage, maintenance, licenses
and fees, wages and the big-
ticket Certiicate of Inspection
from the U.S. Coast Guard, the
board wrote.
Lint said that, after he’s
transfered ownership of the
ferry, he wants to continue his
involvement in the restoration
and maintenance. Though he
originally bought the ferry sev-
eral years ago from a private
company just to “lip it” and
turn a proit, the Tourist No. 2
has come to mean a lot to him.
“I feel so strongly about this
boat. It’s like part of my family
now,” he said.
Taylor knows how he feels.
When she saw the ferry for the
second time on a sunny day
some weeks ago, “she looked
bright and shiny at the end of the
marina,” she recalled. “I just fell
in love with that dang boat.”
“It just totally belongs in
Astoria,” she said. “To have
the opportunity to bring one
of the original ferries home …
I mean, it’s like a remarkable
feat. It’s like a once-in-a-life-
time thing — you don’t get these
opportunities!”
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