Today we’ll talk about the Rose Festival Fleet ships leaving the seawall in Portland, where they spent the weekend giving tours to visitors. They’ll depart along with another military ship, the USNS Watkins, which has been in Astoria the past few days.

They are the US Navy destroyer USS Chafee, and the Canadian Navy ship the HMCS Max Bernays.

We’ll also talk about the weather conditions these ships will encounter when they leave the river, and why marine weather forecasts are so important.