Word: cheechakos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, July 5, p. 40, says that the name of Dr. Good's boat Cheechako is Eskimo for "tenderfoot." Right you are about tenderfoot, but not Eskimo. Cheechako is pure Chinook Jargon; chee meaning new, recent, or just now, while chako means to come, or arrive, or approach...
...Anna Ellen was born in Alaska. Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome daughter to play...
Nowhere to Go. This year Dr. Good has nowhere to go. The Cheechako bobs at a Seattle dock, where Anna, now married to a Naval officer, keeps an eye on her. Dr. and Mrs. Good live in a bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed...