The MV ''Evergreen State'' is a decommissioned that was operated by

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from 1954 to 2015. She was named for the state of

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, whose nickname is "The Evergreen State". When delivered in 1954, the Evergreen State was assigned to the Seattle-Winslow run serving

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. She was reassigned to the San Juan Islands in 1959 where she remained for the majority of her active career for Washington State Ferries. However, the ferry also was used as a relief vessel on the Seattle to Winslow runs in the 1960s. From June 2000 until the retirement of the in November 2007 this ferry was used as a relief vessel. The sudden retirement of the Steel Electrics forced the full-time reactivation of the ''Evergreen State''. After reactivation, the ''Evergreen State'' was the inter-island service vessel in the

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. The ''Evergreen State'' left the San Juan Islands for good on June 29, 2014, replaced by her sister ship , and made her last sailing from Friday Harbor at 2:15 PM and from Lopez Island at 3:05 PM. Following that sailing, she sailed to Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. A month after 'retirement', a substantial fleet shortage resulted in the reactivation of the ''Evergreen State'', and for some time thereafter the vessel was intermittently in service - usually on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth triangle route. Galley Service has not been provided on the ''Evergreen State'' since the mid 2000s. On January 14, 2016, Washington State Ferries issued a press release stating that the ferry "has been decommissioned and will soon be put up for sale." The vessel was sold in March 2017 to Jones Broadcasting for $300,000, with the intent of using it in the

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. The ferry was moored at the

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in preparation for its move to Florida, but Jones failed to move the vessel for more than a year and fell behind on dockage payments. ''Evergreen State'', renamed "The Dream", was listed on

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in January 2020 with a starting bid of $100,000. The auction ended with 130 bids and a final price of $205,100 from an unnamed buyer, who planned to convert it into an art studio. The auction was nonbinding and the vessel was sold to another owner, Bart Lemetta, instead. Lemetta moved the ferry to

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and began refurbishing it into an electric vessel in 2021.

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