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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 30 > Ship pilots, apprentices navigate troubled waters

Ship pilots, apprentices navigate troubled waters

Fallout from timber industry’s decline making it tougher to finish training

By Alexander Rich / The Bulletin
June 30, 2008

COOS BAY — It was like old times again. For a day.

Longshoremen hauled in lines and tied up the OJI Pioneer next to the Oregon Chip Terminal. Charlie Yates bounded down the blue gangway.

He had just piloted the 700-foot-long woodchip carrier up the Coos Bay shipping channel on a....

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