The boat shop on Wrangell’s downtown inner harbor had passed through three generations of shipwrights and owners who all shared one thing in common: Wood.
The business started as Hansen Boat Shop in 1928 and later became Wrangell Shipyard and then Wrangell Boatshop, but the marine ways to haul vessels out of the water and under the protective cover of the tall, peaked roofs were a constant, visible landmark in the harbor.
The last boat…
