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Will Coos Bay be named the tall ship port of Oregon?

The Columbian
Published: March 22, 2014, 5:00pm

COOS BAY, Ore. — If Tom Leahy has his way, tall ships will be docking in Coos Bay more than one month a year.

The new city councilor is attempting to get the port of Coos Bay declared the “tall ship port of Oregon.”

Leahy, who’s long been involved in efforts to bring the Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain to Coos Bay each spring, said the proclamation is appropriate given the number of such vessels built here in the late 1800s.

“We built over 70 tall ships between the 1850s and 1910,” he said, defining tall ships as wind-powered boats more than 100 feet long and weighing more than 100 tons.

The majority were built at the North Bend shipyard started by Bay Area founding father Asa Meade Simpson, who needed the ships to support his San Francisco-based timber empire.

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