While all ships are inherently interesting, we have a few unusual ones passing by on Tuesday. One will visit the Port of Astoria.
We’ll see a new Military Sealift Command replenishment oiler headed to the Portland shipyard, a container ship (we don’t see them as often as we used to) headed to the Port of Portland, and a blue water cruise ship stopping for the day at the Port of Astoria.
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Today we’ll look at transit times, how long it takes a ship to go from one place to another at sea, and here on the river.
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This week marks 15 years since the pilot boat Peacock was lifted out of the Columbia River and placed on land, on the campus of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, where she welcomes people traveling past the museum on Marine Drive.
She’s now a retired icon of Columbia River shipping, but when she first arrived here in the late 1960s, the Peacock opened a new era in river commerce. That was thsnks to her unprecedented ability to handle channeling weather conditions that previous pilot boats here could not.
Today we’ll honor the Peacock and talk about her work with the Columbia River Bar Pilots.
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We’ve got an abundant ship schedule today, so let’s see who’s on the river today, moving cargo, or waiting their turn.
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i got an interesting listener question, about the way that marine pilot’s board a ship using a pilot ladder. The answer illustrates how dangerous the job is, and how much pilots must rely on their own expertise and judgement, moment to moment, to safely do their jobs.
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Today we’ll talk about an interesting and unusual sight that happened on Sunday on the river: a big bluewater cruise ship was heading downriver and out to sea from Portland.
We’ll talk about why she was all the way upriver in Portland, since such ships generally stop in Astoria and go no further upriver except perhaps to anchor off the downtown waterfront while they are in town for the day.
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