Ferry Kalakala finds temporary new home
Jul 25, 2012, 6:28 AM | Updated: 7:30 am
The historic ferry Kalakala has found a new temporary home on the Hylebos waterway in Tacoma.
The historic ferry Kalakala has been moved to a new temporary mooring on the Hylebos waterway in Tacoma.
“The Kalakala needed to be relocated because of the hazard to navigation,” says Bill Dowell with the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Corps of Engineers says the move reduces the threat it will sink and block the channel.
“A local landowner, the Tacoma Industry Properties, recently constructed a 650 foot long structure and the volunteered to temporarily moor the vessel there,” says Dowell.
The vessel was positioned Monday at Tacoma Industrial Properties.
The corps had threatened to seize and dispose of the ferry earlier this year after the Coast Guard declared it a hazard to navigation.
The 77-year-old, 276-foot vessel has been moored in Tacoma for eight years while the owner tried to come up with financing to restore it to its condition when it sailed Puget Sound.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
