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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS October 20, 2014 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Sunken yacht’s wood hull failed Top is lost; boat towed to PA marina BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SEQUIM — A wooden yacht that sank off Dungeness Spit on Friday apparently had a failure of 27 wooden ribs in its haul that caused it to take on water. The Lady A lost its cabin and superstructure above the deck and is likely a complete loss, said the Vessel Assist contractor who worked Sunday to make the remains seaworthy to tow from Sequim’s John Wayne Marina to Port Angeles’ Boat Haven marina. Bart Buntin, captain of the Timber Wolf, a Port Hadlockbased Vessel Assist boat from Port Hadlock and a master diver, said
the boat had a failure of 27 ribs, three planks wide, while underway Friday morning. Buntin said he did not know why the wooden hull Buntin failed but said that such failures are not uncommon among wooden boats. When the yacht sank, it stayed just near the surface, drifted and was recovered Saturday in 380 feet of water, he said. “It broke into two pieces,” he said, explaining that the top portion of the boat had separated from hull. Part of the boat’s superstructure was recovered, and another part was still in the Strait of Juan ARWYN RICE (2)/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS de Fuca marked by an attached A Vessel Assist crew member walks on the deck of the Lady A at John Wayne Marina in orange life raft, he said.
Sequim on Sunday. Two crews prepared the hull for towing to Port Angeles, two days
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Modern licensed operation includes testing and packaging equipment — and lots of security
Inside a legal pot processing operation BY MARK ST.J. COUHIG PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
THC Express owner Jeffrey Hanson demonstrates heat-sealing equipment that keeps packages airtight.
PORT TOWNSEND — The Washington Liquor Control Board has begun issuing the first licenses to recreational marijuana producers and processors in Jefferson County. The first two companies to receive a license, Outback Bud Co. at 71 Eisenbeis Ave., and THC Express, 234 Otto St., are both located in areas zoned for industrial and commercial use and are unaffected by Jefferson County’s six-month moratorium on producers and processors in rural residential areas. Additional operations in Clallam County — there is a growing operation approved in Dungeness — are held up as regulators consider land use and zoning issues. MARK S.J. COUHIG (2)/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Jefferson County’s two licensees are THC Express, a recreational-marijuana processor in Port geared up for business in renovated ware- Townsend, uses a device developed by owner Jeffrey house facilities. Hanson that allowers workers to fill multiple packages TURN
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Cheesy good success story Product demand pushing creamery to bigger building BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — A local cheese producer has announced plans to build a structure that will become an anchor for a new business district at the southern end of the city limit.
Mt. Townsend Creamery, which began as an artisan cheese producer in 2006, plans to move to the Howard Street extension, replacing a cramped four-building system with a single 16,000-square-foot structure.
The Howard Street expansion plan was finalized after another plan to relocate at the Chimacum crossroads fell through, Lance said. The company plans to build a new creamery, warehouse and retail space within city limit along the Howard Street corridor on ‘We’re out of room’ acreage west of the business park. This will coincide with the con“The fact is, we are out of struction of Howard Street that room,” said Nik Lance, the comwill connect Sims Way with Dispany’s co-owner and CFO. covery Way, which is scheduled to CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS “If we want to continue to grow, occur next year. Marlena Baker, left, and Nik Lance attach labels to we will need more space. We have taken it as far as we can here,” TURN TO CHEESE/A6 cheese at the Mt. Townsend Creamery.
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