Inside Passage
In 1887, unable to earn money from "Olympian" on either the Seattle-Victoria run or on the Columbia River, OR&amp;N chartered out "Olympian" to Pacific Coast Steamship Co. to run summer excursions to Alaska through the Inside Passage. "Olympian" did not do well on the Inside Passage, being too lightly built for its conditions, which were much more challenging than Chesapeake Bay for which the vessel was designed and best suited.