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The dock has served as a memorial to Kevin Duckworth since 2009. [2] [3] [4] In 2016, the Oregon State Marine Board considered a proposal from Daimler Trucking North America to relocate the dock to Swan Island to the company's headquarters. [5] [6] [7] This move was approved by Oregon State Marine Board and Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R).
Advertisement for the sale of the O.C.T.C. boats, placed August 3, 1919 in the Oregonian newspaper. On Thursday, May 2, 1918, it was announced that the Oregon City Transportation Company would cease operations. [35] High costs and lack of business forced the business to close, which ended all steamboat service on the upper Willamette. [35]
The American Empress, formerly the Empress of the North, is a 360-foot (110 m) diesel-powered sternwheeler built in 2002 by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, of Freeland, Washington, [27] the same company that was founded in Hood River, Oregon, in 1939 and was previously known as Nichols Boat Works. [28]
McKenzie River dories are specialized to run rapids on rivers, and first appeared on the McKenzie River in Oregon in the mid-20th century. A prolific McKenzie River dory boat builder in the 1940s and 1950s was Wood "Woodie" Knoble Hindman. Woodie had learned to build these steep rocker boats from master boat builder Torkel "Tom" Kaarhus.
The first Uniflite boat an all fiberglass 17' outboard. Uniflite soon added a 14', an 18' and a 20' outboard and inboard/outboard boats, followed by a 25' express cruiser followed by a 31' and a 34' boat. Uniflite was the only boat builder exclusively using fire-retardant resins in the production of pleasure boats. [citation needed]
Corning, Howard McKinley, Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the River, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon (2nd Ed. 1973) ISBN 0-87595-042-6 Mills, Randall V. , Sternwheelers up the Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country , at 39-41, 46, 69, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (1977 reprint of 1947 edition) ISBN ...