Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday nights in the summer, Astoria residents and visitors can see the Astoria Yacht Club sailboat races happening in the river, starting at about 6 pm a little downriver from the Megler Bridge. It’s a neat opportunity to watch sailors negotiate the tricky waters, currents and winds of the lower Columbia.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout, photo of Rattler, a contender in the Tuesday Night Astoria Yacht Club Races.
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Jul 11, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Tuesday nights in the summer, Astoria residents and visitors can see the Astoria Yacht Club sailboat races happening in the river, starting at about 6 pm a little downriver from the Megler Bridge. It’s a neat opportunity to watch sailors negotiate the tricky waters, currents and winds of the lower Columbia.
Photo credit: Joanne Rideout, photo of Rattler, a contender in the Tuesday Night Astoria Yacht Club Races.
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Jul 10, 2023
A luxury cruise ship arrives in Astoria today. She’s on her way south to San Francisco, where passengers will board her for a 20-day trip through the Panama Canal to NY. If you have a spare $8K you’d like to spend, that’s what costs to book passage.
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Jul 10, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
A luxury cruise ship arrives in Astoria today. She’s on her way south to San Francisco, where passengers will board her for a 20-day trip through the Panama Canal to NY. If you have a spare $8K you’d like to spend, that’s what costs to book passage.
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Jul 07, 2023
Today, in the final installment of an interview with Samaro Bannister, the captain of the Cal Maritime training ship the Golden Bear, Captain Bannister describes the ship’s two-month intinerary around the Pacific, ending up in Astoria for the 4th of July holiday.
The trip included a rare honor: students became “golden shellbacks” after the ship crossed the spot where the Equator and the International Dateline intersect in the open ocean north of Samoa. It’s a traditional milestone of experience in the lives of mariners, and one that not that many people in the world can say they’ve done.
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Jul 7, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, in the final installment of an interview with Samaro Bannister, the captain of the Cal Maritime training ship the Golden Bear, Captain Bannister describes the ship’s two-month intinerary around the Pacific, ending up in Astoria for the 4th of July holiday.
The trip included a rare honor: students became “golden shellbacks” after the ship crossed the spot where the Equator and the International Dateline intersect in the open ocean north of Samoa. It’s a traditional milestone of experience in the lives of mariners, and one that not that many people in the world can say they’ve done.
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Jul 06, 2023
Today we hear more from my interview with Captain Samaro Bannister – she’s the master of the Cal Maritime training ship, the Golden Bear, which spent 5 days in Astoria pver the 4th of July holiday weekend. Today we talk more with Captain Bannister about running a training ship, where your cargo is students who need to learn all they can during the “at sea” portion of their education.
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Jul 6, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we hear more from my interview with Captain Samaro Bannister – she’s the master of the Cal Maritime training ship, the Golden Bear, which spent 5 days in Astoria pver the 4th of July holiday weekend. Today we talk more with Captain Bannister about running a training ship, where your cargo is students who need to learn all they can during the “at sea” portion of their education.
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Jul 05, 2023
Today we’ll hear the first segment of an interview with the captain of the Cal Maritime training ship, the Golden Bear. Captain Samaro Bannister is a 2000 graduate of the school with an impressive career in the maritime industry.
She holds an unlimited masters license, which allows her to serve as the master on any ship of any tonnage, size, or type, anywhere in the world. And she’s the first woman ever to hold the position of captain on a Cal Maritime training ship.
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Jul 5, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll hear the first segment of an interview with the captain of the Cal Maritime training ship, the Golden Bear. Captain Samaro Bannister is a 2000 graduate of the school with an impressive career in the maritime industry.
She holds an unlimited masters license, which allows her to serve as the master on any ship of any tonnage, size, or type, anywhere in the world. And she’s the first woman ever to hold the position of captain on a Cal Maritime training ship.
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Jul 03, 2023
We have a special visitor in town for the 4th; the California Maritime Academy’s cadet training ship the Golden Bear is in town. She’s docked at the Port of Astoria until Wednesday. The school is a four-year university that teaches students who want to work in the maritime professions.
Image: The original uploader was Frijole at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Jul 3, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We have a special visitor in town for the 4th; the California Maritime Academy’s cadet training ship the Golden Bear is in town. She’s docked at the Port of Astoria until Wednesday. The school is a four-year university that teaches students who want to work in the maritime professions.
Image: The original uploader was Frijole at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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