"Port Something".....is Port Orford.

They lift the boats in and out of the ocean as needed since there is basically no room to moor boats in the tiny 'harbor' area....really just a barely sheltered part of the ocean.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...17123&t=h&z=17

Zoom in and you will see there is no boat docks in the cove....and the northwest wind blows very hard along that stretch of the coast.