“She was built as a gasoline schooner, and her mission was going to be working in Alaska bringing fish from the deep-sea fishers into port,” says Stewart Brand, the visionary behind the Whole Earth Catalog who now lives on this century-old tugboat. “She was so strongly built that she didn’t have much cargo space, and so she flunked out.” The Mirene, as the boat is known, found work ferrying goods and passengers throughout the Pacific Northwest, and in the ‘30s she was converted into a diesel …
