This time it’s for real.

While the old logo for the Port of Port Townsend may have its charm, the boat depicted doesn’t have a basis in reality.

“Maybe it’s a logging schooner,” said the port’s executive director Eron Berg about the old logo.

The new logo in the works will feature a vessel many in the area know and love, “Alcyone.”

This 65-foot gaff-rigged schooner built by the famous Frank Prothero has had Port Townsend painted on its keel for many a decade and makes regular appearances at the annual Wooden Boat Festival.

“She’s beautiful anyway you look at her,” Port Commissioner Pete Hanke said of the boat which he himself owned for 20 years before selling it to the current owners John “Sugar” Flanagan and his wife Leslie McNish.

Flanagan and McNish have taken Alcyone across the equator six times in their 35 years of ownership, though these days she stays closer to home.

Other than using a real boat, the hope was to have a background that includes recognizable local features.

“I don’t remember how many versions we went through,” Berg said of the process for the new logo.

What they’ve got now includes the Point Wilson Lighthouse as well as tree-topped cliffs.

“It’s a call back to the 1920s version that had a lighthouse on it,” Berg said.

In addition to the detailed, full-color version, in the works are a few other simplified versions, such as one without the batons and a line-drawing version.

“Part of me was still hankering to have a fish boat,” said Port Commissioner Carol Hasse.

But in the end it was agreed that they could start printing signs.