On Canada’s west coast, a redheaded, pink-skinned child—the book’s narrator—joins Dad and a friendly terrier for a trip hauling logs to a sawmill using a boom boat. Ritchie writes in a cadence that ...

A log boom tug works the waters at the west end of Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday. The tugs are used for corralling logs for later pickup and tending the containing booms.

EARLIER THIS WEEK the 113-foot tug Gene Dunlap brought an empty log barge to Port Angeles. The tug held the barge, which is owned by South Port Lumber of Coos Bay, Ore., fast in place for a couple of ...