Monday evening we reported that WSF has, in inventory, a bow kit for the Chinook foot ferry, which, after installed, would make the boat compatible with the system’s docks. WSF had previously told the press and legislators that the boat did not have the proper “landing gear” or didn’t have the kit at all, when asked why the Chinook couldn’t be used as a backup like its sister vessel, the Snohomish. WSF owned up to the bow kit in inventory after we uncovered a 2005 WSF report that confirmed the existence of said kit. (Read KOMO’s story here.)I was reading more of the report last night, and noticed that the report puts the cost of the “bow-loading retrofit” at $75,000. This is quite different than the number WSF spokesperson Marta Coursey gave us Monday evening in a conference call with Department of Transportation Chief of Staff Steve Reinmuth.”It would be a million (dollars) to be serviceable on WSF on all of its routes,” Coursey said. “And it could cost up to that much just to put the bow-landing kit on. And these are very rough estimates. Nobody’s looking at this date, or has crunched the numbers on it.”