Seattle Fishermen's Terminal OUPV - Master 100 January 2008

Just a reminder about my upcoming January license class - it's an Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday evening schedule for seven weeks - mariners will sit in class for their OUPV and or NMT Master 100 ton license.

NY December Boat Show Report

From the New York Post -



You can almost hear the lonely-sounding foghorn off in the distance.
The thousand boats spread out across Manhattan's massive Jacob Javits Center for the New York National Boat Show were dwarfed yesterday by the vast emptiness where buyers would normally be seen.



Read the rest of the story -



http://www.nypost.com/seven/12162008/news/regionalnews/boat_show_a_no_show_144457.htm

Ballard Dispatch - A Land Yacht

Since the floating fat man has turned this Emerald City into a huge skating rink with cars playing bumper car bingo day and night - here in Ballard it appears that boat fenders are being used to fend off other bumper cars - looks like Frosty got impaled during a close encounter.....

Merry Christmas

The very best holiday wishes to all of you - tis the season to be thankful...John

Here's some pictures from Seattle's Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Contest held downtown earlier this month....can you name that tune? (click on the video below) -

Don't Get Fouled Up...

Here's an interesting piece from a recent survey of an Columbia River bow picker - in the event that the vessel's prop or rudder became fouled with a net - a metal tube (lower picture) installed through the hull - just above the prop allows the crew to inspect the underwater hardware (the top picture is what the tube opening looks like outside the hull) - and if they were lucky - provide a means to untangle or cut-away the net....the tube is about 5" in diameter and is capped with a screw-in plug ...you just see this feature any to often.

Snow at the Ballard Yacht Club

Several snow events have occurred over the past week here in Seattle - the streets are a mess since this green city refuses to use salt - as it will drain into Puget Sound (which is salt water anyway) - oh well....

Current Surface Air Chart

Standard barometric pressure is 1013 mb

Wind velocity - one full feather is 10 knots, a half feather is 5 knots