Smitty

“We’re all very excited,” said William “Captain Smitty” Smith, who was readying his charter fishing boat Riptide at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.

That was a lifetime ago for Smith, known around the Chargers facility as “Smitty.”

He emailed back: “Many rangers at Olympic use a resource called ‘God and Goblins: A Field Guide to Place Names of the Olympic National Park,’ by Smitty Parratt.

Captain William “Smitty” Smith wears a boat wheel necklace.

William Smith, who goes by Captain Smitty, said he lost about three-fourths of his charter business because he couldn’t take passengers salmon fishing, and also saw losses because of restrictions on the rockfish season.