PORT TOWNSEND — Six men and a 165-foot-tall crane will spend the next month performing maintenance work at the Port Townsend and Keystone ferry terminals.
“They’ll see the crane around there about four weeks,” said Susan Harris-Huether, spokeswoman for Washington State Ferries. “It’s a $300,000 job.”
A tug pulled the D.B. Olympia — a 60-foot by 120-foot barge carrying the crane — into Port Townsend Bay on Friday morning.
Workers will install new wooden and metal structures, known as dolphins and wingwalls, that help steer the ferry into dock, Harris-Huether said.
Once the work is done in Port Townsend, the barge will move to Keystone, she said.
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