The 66-foot fishing vessel Defiant, built in Astoria in 1980, returned to its hometown last week for a major upgrade.
Owner Mike Haggren has hired the boat's original builder, J & H Boatworks Inc., to do a $400,000 lengthening and sponsoning - a big job for any local boatyard, and one that J & H has never attempted.
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