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Where exactly is the Columbia River Bar?
Today, a perennial question that comes up now and again: where actually is the Columbia River Bar? It opens the door to an interesting and complex answer about how the river works and influences all our lives here.
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A look at today’s ship schedule, and at a particular cargo: industrial salt
Today we’ll see who’s on the river and take a closer look at a cargo that’s often delivered to Longview: industrial salt.
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The Vigorous drydock in Portland’s shipyard is an unusual maritime marvel
Today, an answer to a listener question about the Vigorous dry dock at the Swan Island shipyard in Portland. It’s an engineering marvel, and the largest floating drydock in North America. We’ll take a closer look.
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Who’s on the river today?
A bit about today’s ships: berths, cargo, anchorages – among the reasons ships come here to the Columbia River
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A look at what we know about this year’s Rose Festival Fleet, and also, a big cruise ship in Portland
Two things today: first, a look at preliminary info about this year’s Rose Festival Fleet of visiting military ships due here in June on the river. And, why was there a big ocean-going cruise ship heading upriver recently?
We’ll talk about all of that, and a look at marine weather and ship traffic for today.
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Self loading ships, a special breed
Today we have an unusual cargo ship on the river: a self loader called the CSL Tecumseh. She’s bringing Gypsum to Rainier. What makes her unusual is she has all the gear she needs to load and unload her own cargo at the dock. We’ll talk about why that’s important.
Image courtesy Canadian Steamship Lines.
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A closer look at the Columbia’s new ship anchorage, and a bit about anchoring on the river
Earlier this month, I made a passing reference to there being a new ship anchorage on the Columbia River near Skamakowa.
Today we’ll look at that in more depth, and talk about the complicated affair of anchoring a gigantic ship on a swift, powerful and capricious river.
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Special archive interview series: Carships, Part 5
The final segment of our week-long series about car ships.
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Special archive interview series: Carships, Part 4
Part 4 of our series this week on carships.
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Special archive interview series: Carships, Part 2
Part 2 of our series on car carriers, featuring now retired Columbia River Bar Pilot, Capt. Robert Johnson.
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