“It’s a big project.” That’s how Matt Harris describes the USS Katie, a wooden boat docked at the Richmond Yacht Basin about 10 miles south of the city. The Katie doesn’t look like much at first sight — relatively small, weatherbeaten, very obviously showing its age, which is roughly about 110 years. Yet the boat’s history is arguably among the more unique in the U.S.: It is reportedly among the scant few World War I-era U.S. Navy ships still af…
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