Port Townsend: Ferry’s steering problem halts service to Whidbey Island

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, November 4, 2003

PORT TOWNSEND — A steering problem kept the ferry Klickitat tied up for half the day Monday, eliminating the state Highway 20 link between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island.

The 76-year-old vessel should be back in service on the Port Townsend-Keystone run today, Washington State Ferries spokeswoman Susan Harris said from Seattle.

The steering failure was discovered around 2 p.m. after the ferry had left Keystone Harbor.

Crews managed to get the 256-foot ferry docked in Port Townsend in spite of the problem, Harris said.

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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.