Jan 8, 2026 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Yesterday the Columbia River Bar was on Red status, per the Columbia River Bar Pilots. It’s the most severe restriction on ship traffic they can impose, and it means most, if not all, ships will be restricted from coming in or out of the river till the weather improves.
We have a big potential ship schedule today, meaning lots of ships want to enter and leave the river. Today we’ll talk about the effect a temporary, weather-related closure like this has on vessels, and what they do while they wait.
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Jan 7, 2026 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We’ve got another round of inclement weather coming in, and it’s a good time to talk about how our marine pilots, who are in charge of assisting ships in and out of the river, decide when the weather is too difficult to allow ships to transit until things calm down. We’ll talk about that today.
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Jan 6, 2026 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Now that the fleeting festivities of New Years have faded away, let’s turn our attention to the workhorse ships that continue to do their work despite holidays, weather and other distractions.
Also, we’ll look at the weather, which is worsening a bit again – and we’ll talk about my favorite KMUN inclement weather forecast ever.
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Jan 5, 2026 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Hear Astoria’s visiting ships ring in the new year with the sonorous sounds of their horns at midnight on New Year’s Eve on the Columbia River.
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Dec 30, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and we’ll hopefully hear some ship horns off the Astoria waterfront. Today, we’ll also take a look at the Dungeness Crab Fishery, which kicked off in the local area this past weekend.
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Dec 29, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
I’m gearing up once more to record ship horns on the Astoria waterfront again this year, when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve – an annual tradition I happily seek out.
I’ll share the recording with you on January 5th, when the Ship Report returns for the New Year. We never know what it will like: how many ships will be there, how many will choose to participate. So it’s always a surprise. Let’s hope for good sounds and let’s send our good wishes to the mariners on those ships for a good year for them as well as for all of us.
Also, the Ship Report is now on Substack, an easy place for you to go to see all that I create, and other info I share – whether it be podcasts, marine weather, ship schedules and more. Look for The Ship Report on Substack and you’ll find my new page.
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