Actually, the big cost saver between the aluminum hull of the earlier boats and the wooden hull is the reduction in fairing costs on the wooden hull. Once the boat is flipped, the interior is half ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A diver from Seattle’s Global Diving & Salvage patched a hole in a sunken vessel’s wooden hull so it could be dewatered as it was pulled from the water on Monday. The Goldfinch was ...