Mar 27, 2023
Today we’ll see a cruise ship in the river, but she’s not carrying passengers. This time this ship is headed for the shipyard. We’ll talk about what shipyards do, and why Portland’s Swan Island yard is specially equipped to handle big ships like this one.
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Mar 27, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll see a cruise ship in the river, but she’s not carrying passengers. This time this ship is headed for the shipyard. We’ll talk about what shipyards do, and why Portland’s Swan Island yard is specially equipped to handle big ships like this one.
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Mar 24, 2023
We’ll take a look at who’s arriving and departing on the river today, and talk a little about the upriver portion of the chain of commerce that folks on the lower river don’t always see.
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Mar 24, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
We’ll take a look at who’s arriving and departing on the river today, and talk a little about the upriver portion of the chain of commerce that folks on the lower river don’t always see.
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Mar 23, 2023
Today we’ll talk about those odd-looking car ships we see on the river, and about new brands of cars coming into the Port of Portland.
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Mar 23, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll talk about those odd-looking car ships we see on the river, and about new brands of cars coming into the Port of Portland.
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Mar 22, 2023
The Beaufort Wind Scale is that table of wind speeds which gives us assessments of wind intensity based on a scale from 0-12, according to what we see happening around us on land and sea. It was created in the early 1800s, and is still used today. It evolved from earlier, vaguer scales that weren’t defined clearly. Today we take a look at the evolution of the Beaufort Scale. Some of its iterations were really helpful to mariners, and some were just, well, charmingly silly.
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Mar 22, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
The Beaufort Wind Scale is that table of wind speeds which gives us assessments of wind intensity based on a scale from 0-12, according to what we see happening around us on land and sea. It was created in the early 1800s, and is still used today. It evolved from earlier, vaguer scales that weren’t defined clearly. Today we take a look at the evolution of the Beaufort Scale. Some of its iterations were really helpful to mariners, and some were just, well, charmingly silly.
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Mar 21, 2023
The Sargasso Sea has been in the news this week, because of drifting seaweed that could reach the US. But during the age of wind, mariners on sailing ships feared the Sargasso, because ships often became becalmed there and crews perished from starvation and lack of drinking water.
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Mar 21, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
The Sargasso Sea has been in the news this week, because of drifting seaweed that could reach the US. But during the age of wind, mariners on sailing ships feared the Sargasso, because ships often became becalmed there and crews perished from starvation and lack of drinking water.
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Mar 20, 2023
Today is the first day of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere. But for meterologists, spring has been in session since the 1st of March.. We’ll talk about why there are two springs, two falls, two summers, etc.
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Mar 20, 2023 | Ship Report Podcasts
Today is the first day of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere. But for meterologists, spring has been in session since the 1st of March.. We’ll talk about why there are two springs, two falls, two summers, etc.
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