Jun 05, 2023
Today we’ll hear about when ships will be coming upriver for Fleet Week for the Portland Rose Festival.
(The image here is the USS Lake Champlain, currently at the Port of Astoria.)
Here’s a quick look at the ships that will be coming in from out in the Pacific and heading to Portland as part of the Rose Festival Fleet:
Tuesday
- HMCS Yellowknife – Vancouver BC to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
Wednesday
- HMCS Nanaimo – Canada to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
- HMCS Edmonton – Canada to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
Thursday
- USS Lake Champlain – Port of Astoria to Portland – Dep Ast~8am/Ptld~4pm
This schedule is for ships entering the river from the Pacific Ocean to attend the Rose Festival. There will be other vessels in attendance at the festival that are already on the river and will be in Portland.
For more info about Fleet Week, here’s their website: https://www.rosefestival.org/events/2023/fleet-week2
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Jun 5, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we’ll hear about when ships will be coming upriver for Fleet Week for the Portland Rose Festival.
(The image here is the USS Lake Champlain, currently at the Port of Astoria.)
Here’s a quick look at the ships that will be coming in from out in the Pacific and heading to Portland as part of the Rose Festival Fleet:
Tuesday
- HMCS Yellowknife – Vancouver BC to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
Wednesday
- HMCS Nanaimo – Canada to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
- HMCS Edmonton – Canada to Portland – Ast~5:30am/Ptld~2pm
Thursday
- USS Lake Champlain – Port of Astoria to Portland – Dep Ast~8am/Ptld~4pm
This schedule is for ships entering the river from the Pacific Ocean to attend the Rose Festival. There will be other vessels in attendance at the festival that are already on the river and will be in Portland.
For more info about Fleet Week, here’s their website: https://www.rosefestival.org/events/2023/fleet-week2
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Today, an overview of what ships we’ll see here in the river for Fleet Week, a cherished part of the annual Rose Festival in Portland.
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Jun 5, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today, an overview of what ships we’ll see here in the river for Fleet Week, a cherished part of the annual Rose Festival in Portland.
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Jun 02, 2023
Today we hear more from retired Columbia River Bar Pilot Captain Robert Johnson about lights on ships at night, including some interesting detail about bar pilot boardings in the ocean at night. We’ll hear about measures taken on board ships so that pilots and their helicopter crews can see what they are doing as they handle pilot operations in the dark on a moving vessel.
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Jun 2, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we hear more from retired Columbia River Bar Pilot Captain Robert Johnson about lights on ships at night, including some interesting detail about bar pilot boardings in the ocean at night. We’ll hear about measures taken on board ships so that pilots and their helicopter crews can see what they are doing as they handle pilot operations in the dark on a moving vessel.
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Jun 01, 2023
We see this every day on the river and probably don’t notice it. But it’s a really important design feature on all the ships we see: the bulbous bow.
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Jun 1, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
We see this every day on the river and probably don’t notice it. But it’s a really important design feature on all the ships we see: the bulbous bow.
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May 31, 2023
Today we take a look back in the Ship Report archives to an interview about running lights, with retired Columbia River Bar Pilot Capt. Robert Johnson.
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May 31, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Today we take a look back in the Ship Report archives to an interview about running lights, with retired Columbia River Bar Pilot Capt. Robert Johnson.
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May 30, 2023
Folks were tlaking recently about a ship that appeared off the coast in the ocean off Cannon Beach and appeared to be running back and forth up and down the coast in a small area.
While it turned out to be one of our Military Sealift Command vessels waiting for a berth in Portland, there’s a wonderful backstory about why the ship was so close to shore. A reminder that just because we don’t know why something is happening, that doesn’t mean the worst.
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May 30, 2023 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts
Folks were tlaking recently about a ship that appeared off the coast in the ocean off Cannon Beach and appeared to be running back and forth up and down the coast in a small area.
While it turned out to be one of our Military Sealift Command vessels waiting for a berth in Portland, there’s a wonderful backstory about why the ship was so close to shore. A reminder that just because we don’t know why something is happening, that doesn’t mean the worst.
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