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Westport sold to La. company factories in Port Angeles, Westport and Hoquiam, has been purchased by a Louisiana investor. The details of the deal were not released, but a statement from the company said Westport will continue to build yachts in Port Angeles and the Grays Harbor County cities of Westport and Hoquiam. Westport’s assets have been BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ acquired by Westport LLC, an PENINSULA DAILY NEWS ownership group that includes ABERDEEN — Westport members of the Louisiana-based Shipyard Inc., one of the state’s Chouest family, the company largest luxury yacht builders with announced in the statement.

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A new 164-foot Westport yacht sits in the slings of a TraveLift outside the company’s factory in 2012. Westport Shipyard has been sold to a Louisiana-based company.

The statement said Westport will retain its current president, Daryl Wakefield; general manager Dave Hagiwara; and “the rest of Westport’s management team and employees.” “We will continue to pursue the employment of skilled local workers and will remain an active participant in the communities Westport serves,” Gary Chouest, principal of the Chouest family, said in the statement. TURN

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Diving for a piece of history this week Accused murderer: Not guilty PA man enters plea in connection with birthday party killing BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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Scott Grimm, left, and Doug Monk will set out from Port Townsend on Monday to pull an 18th-century anchor out of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the hopes of proving it is the anchor that in 1792 snapped off the HMS Chatham, companion ship to Capt. George Vancouver’s HMS Discovery, which explored the Salish Sea.

Is it Capt. Vancouver’s anchor? BY JOE SMILLIE

This illustration from Capt. George Vancouver’s book A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Around the World (1801) shows HMS Discovery listing after hitting rocks in Fife Sound off British Columbia in 1792. The HMS Chatham is in the background.

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PORT TOWNSEND –– Hoping to disprove decades of conventional wisdom, Doug Monk and Scott Grimm will lead an expedition Monday to retrieve an anchor they believe to be lost off Whidbey Island during Capt. George Vancouver’s HMS Discovery expeditions of the late 18th century. “It’s the only piece of evidence — of hard evidence — that Vancouver was here,” said Grimm of the anchor destined to be displayed in Port Townsend. Monk of Port Angeles and Grimm, who lives in Seattle, will set out 222 years to the day after the anchor snapped free from the HMS Chatham on June 9, 1792. TURN

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PORT ANGELES — A trial date for a Sequim man accused in the shooting death of a Port Angeles man at a birthday party is expected to be set Tuesday. Nathaniel Darren Olson, 27, on Friday pleaded not guilty in Clallam County Superior Court to a single count of second-degree murder with an aggravated circumstance in the death of Matthew R. Baker, 25. Baker was found Olson dead of a single gunshot wound to the chest at a home at 1523 Monroe Road at about 12:40 a.m. May 22. Olson, who remained in the county jail Saturday, is expected to be back in Superior Court at 1 p.m. Tuesday for the setting of a trial date.

Bail reduced On Friday, Superior Court Judge George Wood lowered Olson’s bail from $500,000 to $75,000, with conditions, after Port Angeles defense attorney Karen Unger argued that Olson’s bail should be reduced to $50,000. Unger said the court should have initially considered a number of factors in setting bail, including Olson’s lack of felony criminal history, his steady job as a geoduck diver and his family ties to Clallam County. TURN

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