ABOARD THE M/V KLICKITAT -- Built in 1927, this vessel is among the oldest in Washington State Ferries' fleet, and its twin 1,200-horsepower diesels are the antithesis of high technology.
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Tristan Leonard, software engineer for Mobilisa, and Kenna Pope, office manager for the company, use the wireless Internet aboard the Klickitat ferry on the Port Townsend-Keystone run yesterday. This photo was transmitted from the ferry to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
But the ferry's name means "beyond" in the Chinook language, and its new wireless system -- which allowed filing part of this story while bobbing yesterday in Admiralty Inlet -- likely goes beyond anything found on the nation's other ferry systems.
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