Northwest History. Alaska. General.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: Alaska; gas station; business; old sailing boat; gasoline service; watercraft; Ketchikan; Venice; fish capital; Lloyd Bayly; Washington; General Petroleum corporation; Carl Waage; Pacific waters; Falls of Clyde; fishing banks; toilers of the sea; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bayly; Lone; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91938

Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business On Old Sailing Boat. Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business on Old Sailing Boat Boasting one of the most unusual gasoline service stations in the world, transacting its business with watercraft, Ketchikan, fish capital of Alaska, is a veritable Venice of the north, according to a story told to Lloyd Bayly, Washington division manager for General Petroleum corporation, by Carl Waage, Alaskan district manager. One of the last of the great fleet of sailing vessels that ploughed Pacific waters, the bark, Falls of Clyde, now serves as a floating service station for the more than 2000 gasoline trollers and several hundred larger vessels that set out each year for the fishing banks. During the height of the season watch is kept day and night on the converted bark to offer service to the trollers, nearly all of which yre piloted by a lone skipper, although there are some that vaunt crew of two. While Ketchikan, lays claim to "pward of 400 automobiles General's sales records indicate that the business enjoyed from that source does not begin to compare with the large volume received from the "toilers of-the sea."