Feb 09, 2024
Two familiar ships, the USCG cutters Steadfast and Alert, will soon be leaving Astoria for good. The reasons for each ship’s departure are different, but we’ll miss seeing them grace our waterfront by the Columbia River Maritime Museum. We’ll talk about why these beloved vessels will no longer be here on the Columbia
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Feb 9, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Two familiar ships, the USCG cutters Steadfast and Alert, will soon be leaving Astoria for good. The reasons for each ship’s departure are different, but we’ll miss seeing them grace our waterfront by the Columbia River Maritime Museum. We’ll talk about why these beloved vessels will no longer be here on the Columbia
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Feb 08, 2024
Today we’ll take a look at our ship schedule on the river, including a bulk carrier that is at the Port of Astoria for engine repairs.
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Feb 8, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll take a look at our ship schedule on the river, including a bulk carrier that is at the Port of Astoria for engine repairs.
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Feb 07, 2024
Today we take a look, thanks to a listener question, at an old nautical saying that goes, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.”
Is it true? Can we really predict the weather from colors in the sky? Well. to a degree, yes. We’ll take a look today at the science behind red sunsets and sunrises.
Photo credit: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Photographer Robert Havasy. Sailboat on Edgartown Harbor against a red sky at sunset. Taken July 4, 2012 on Edgartown Harbor, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
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Feb 7, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look, thanks to a listener question, at an old nautical saying that goes, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.”
Is it true? Can we really predict the weather from colors in the sky? Well. to a degree, yes. We’ll take a look today at the science behind red sunsets and sunrises.
Photo credit: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Photographer Robert Havasy. Sailboat on Edgartown Harbor against a red sky at sunset. Taken July 4, 2012 on Edgartown Harbor, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
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Feb 05, 2024
Sitting quietly by the dock on the waterfront in Astoria is a ship that once played a vital and sometimes heroic role in the region’s history: the Lightship Columbia. She’s now an exhibit at the Columbia River Maritime Museum, but back in the day – she was a beacon and a refuge for sailors negotiating the intimidating and treacherous Columbia River Bar.
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Feb 5, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Sitting quietly by the dock on the waterfront in Astoria is a ship that once played a vital and sometimes heroic role in the region’s history: the Lightship Columbia. She’s now an exhibit at the Columbia River Maritime Museum, but back in the day – she was a beacon and a refuge for sailors negotiating the intimidating and treacherous Columbia River Bar.
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Feb 02, 2024
More about our problematic and perhaps confusing weather this week, as Hazardous Seas warnings continue today offshore, while conditions on land are pretty bland.
We’ll talk about why it’s so important to keep your wits about you on land or sea when you are on or near the water. Things are always changing, in ways that can spell disaster for the uninformed and unmindful.
But a little preparation, a little information, and a little paying attention, can mean a wonderful day on a boat, or on the beach, that you will treasure forever.
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Feb 2, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
More about our problematic and perhaps confusing weather this week, as Hazardous Seas warnings continue today offshore, while conditions on land are pretty bland.
We’ll talk about why it’s so important to keep your wits about you on land or sea when you are on or near the water. Things are always changing, in ways that can spell disaster for the uninformed and unmindful.
But a little preparation, a little information, and a little paying attention, can mean a wonderful day on a boat, or on the beach, that you will treasure forever.
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Feb 01, 2024
Today is the first day that Dungeness crabbers here can pull their pots, baited traps they set to “soak” in the ocean on Monday in the hopes they will be full of crab today.
But the weather has chosen to make things difficult for fishermen at sea today: the National Weather Service issued a Haradous Seas Warning for area waters. We’ll talk about what that means for people who have to work in these turbulent conditions.
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Feb 1, 2024 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today is the first day that Dungeness crabbers here can pull their pots, baited traps they set to “soak” in the ocean on Monday in the hopes they will be full of crab today.
But the weather has chosen to make things difficult for fishermen at sea today: the National Weather Service issued a Haradous Seas Warning for area waters. We’ll talk about what that means for people who have to work in these turbulent conditions.
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