The journey was by sleigh, canal barge, wagon, river sternwheeler, horseback, and foot. Three basic types of steamboat were used on inland waterways&colon; propeller, side-wheeler, and sternwheeler. A daily steamship route, using the sternwheeler "Skeena", brought customers and supplies to the Inn. The 1947 sternwheeler "Portland", docked at Waterfront Park, houses the Oregon Maritime Center and Museum. The casino boat is a , four-deck sternwheeler built by Avondale Shipyard. The sternwheeler "Lorena" is docked along the Muskingum River to the west. She was the first sternwheeler on the Columbia River system. Today, a sight-seeing sternwheeler named "Lorena" (summer/fall) cruises on the Muskingum River. The dock tower fell into the bay and the sternwheeler "Telegraph" was sunk. Hudson's Bay Company sternwheeler "Caledonia" successfully negotiated Kitselas Canyon and reached Hazelton. The SS "Samson V" is the only Canadian steam-powered sternwheeler that has been preserved afloat. The first company sternwheeler was launched in May 1910. The famous BC sternwheeler R.P. Rithet was beached in Stuart Bay in 1923. Later the yard turned out ships, like the sternwheeler SS "Mount Royal". The "Skuzzy" became the first sternwheeler to arrive in Lytton.