Jun 25, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we continue hearing excerpts from my interview with Len Tumbarello, maritime program coordinator for Northwest Oregon Works. He’s working to improve employment opportunities in the local maritime industry.
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Jun 24, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we continue my interview with Northwest Oregon Works Maritime Program Coordinator Len Tumbarello, about what kinds of maritime industry employment opportunities this new program could help generate in the state, through funding and development of education and industry partnerships.
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Jun 23, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
This week we’ll be talking with Len Tumbarello, Maritime Program Coordinator for NW Oregon Works. A Coast Guard veteran, Tumbarello also ran a seamanship education at the Tongue Point Job Corps Program in Astoria for years, helping young people prepare for jobs at sea.
Now he’s working with the this Oregon nonprofit to enhance maritime job opportunities for young people and adults, by building educational and business partnerships.
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Jun 20, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we honor one of my favorite maritime authors: William Langewiesche, author of an incredible book called, The Outlaw Sea. One of the best works of maritime nonfiction I have ever read. It’s on a list of cherished books I reread every few years. Many thanks to him for all his great work. Today we’ll talk about him and about the Outlaw Sea.
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Jun 18, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We’ll talk a little today about ships on the river and their cargoes, which are primarily agricultural products and dry minerals.
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Jun 17, 2025 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Now that the Rose Festival enthusiasm is well spent, it’s time to get back to the fun business of talking about our ships. And a little more about the Eagle, which is by now partway down the Oregon coast, bucking a south wind. Oh, and rain enters the forecast today…
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