In 1938, the 27-foot tug Irene was built by family friend C.J. Sessions for Henry Sause, Sr. and Curtis Sause. Designed along the lines of a Columbia River gillnetter with a four-cylinder, 40 horsepower Durant automobile engine, it towed log rafts from the Tillamook River across the bay to Garibaldi, where the logs were assembled into seagoing rafts known as Davis rafts and towed to Aberdeen Plywood at Aberdeen, Washington. This undertaking was the forerunner to Sause Bros. Ocean Towing Co., Inc., which remained prominent in the ocean towing industry 64 years later.