A look at who’s on the river today
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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Listener question about marine pilots and how they board ships
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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A blue water cruise ship heads downriver after a stint in Portland
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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A look at our eccentric regional weather
Today we’ll take a look at this week’s storm, which brought stormy conditions some places around the region, but missed others.
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Update on the weather
Well, in typical Mother Nature fashion, she’s doing what she likes, and our predicted storm is a bit late. But arrive it will, and will likely make things messy for vessels out in it, and delay departures for ships that are in port here. We’ll talk today about what to expect, with the usual caveat, “subject to change.”
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Weather comin’ in
We have some of our usual, messy fall weather coming in today, and I thought it would be a good time to review some of the weather jargon we start to see in our forecasts at this time of year, and what those words and numbers mean.
We’ll talk about ships on the bar in bad weather, and also what’s happening with other river bars along our PNW coast, where vessels may also be seeking refuge from the weather.
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