MISC NOTES: This is a song that commemorated the wreck of the Elwha ferry boat. "In the 1980s, it was assigned to the inter-island route connecting Anacortes to Lopez, Shaw, Orcas and San Juan Islands ...On Oct. 2, 1983, the Elwha had just departed Anacortes, helmed by Capt. Billy Fittro, a veteran pilot with more than three decades of experience. After a stop at Lopez, he steered the 382-foot Elwha off course so Peggy Warrack, a passenger he’d invited upstairs, could see her house at Grindstone Harbor. Fittro didn’t the see the shallow reef, which tore into the boat’s hull. A failed steering component was blamed at first. But within a week, the truth was out and Fittro lost his job. So did WSF’s chief. The collision caused $250,000 damage to the Elwha, but was music to the ears of some islanders. The Island City Jazz Band made the front page of The Seattle Times on Nov. 9, 1983, for its Dixieland “toe-tapping spoof” of the incident, called “Elwha on the Rocks.”  Within a decade, the reef that Fittro missed had a new name as well, thanks to the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names, which made the official change to Elwha Rock." [Text courtesy of The Seattle Times]

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