A decade of work on a hybrid electric boat propulsion project culminated Thursday as U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski shattered a bottle of champagne on the bow of the F/V Mirage, and saw it move under electric power along the dock at Sitka’s Gary Paxton Industrial Park.
Tradesmen worked at the industrial park over the past year to install the hybrid propulsion system on the Mirage, completing the first phase of a federally-funded Alaska Longline Fishermen’s…