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Last week’s image showed Nichols Boat Works, which operated in Hood River till 1998. The building was removed in 2008. A Joe Kollas photo, courtesy of the Hood River history museum, whose curators noted you can still see the rails used to launch:

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Kollas Winans Collection, Photos by Joe Kollas and Alan Winans. Dobated by Paul Kollas.

 Also, Gary Elkinton noted of the recent image of the Francis of Aberdeen, Washington taking FFA and 4-H kids for a ride, that the Captain was Slim Leppaluoto, who co-founded the Navigation Company based in The Dalles, and sometimes hosted high schoolers on this yacht.