Photography 2

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Same box of slides as the previous ones. This image is something closer to home....... This is just 6 miles away at the ocean entrance leading into the bay.
We ship logs, lumber and wood chips out from here......... so how come a fully loaded ship is coming in to port with a full load??? I have absolutely no clue.
The image was taken February of 1990. Even when the ocean is rough, they send a pilot boat (tug boat) out to put a local ship pilot onboard the ship to bring it in.
I went out with them one time to take a pilot off of a ship and bring him back in. We were installing vinyl on the pilot boat named Coos Bay that day. The captain asked us if we wanted to go for a ride........ It was in a January and the swells were just 3 to 4 feet, It was around noon, the sun was shining, and the bay was smooth as glass .........much unlike this typical winter day.

 

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Here's the pilot boat Coos Bay coming in through the bar. They had just been out there in those calm seas to put a pilot on board the Surenes.
They still use rope ladders to transfer the captain from the pilot boat onto the ship. Part way up the side of the ship, they transfer from the rope ladder onto a metal stairway to go the rest of the way up onto the deck. Fun job if you like making $350,000+ per year and don't mind worrying about one small boo boo taking your entire career down the toilet.

 

[Nick]

Those pilots know every inch of the harbor Hi.

 

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Yup, and they have to. The ocean entrance and trip into Coos Bay doesn't leave a lot of room for errors. The channel is dredged every year or two to maintain a 38 foot depth for the ships. Most of the trip through the 15 mile long channel is 300 feet wide. Most ships that come in are about 110 to 120 feet wide, and about 600 to 650 feet long, so not a lot of room for error. That's why the requirement for a local pilot to bring the ship in. There are only two basins along the route where it's wide enough to turn a ship around.
I noticed that the ship speed coming into the bay is just slightly less than the speed they travel out in the ocean. That seems fast when making a relatively sharp turn, but they need maintain some speed in order to steer the ship.

 

[Nick]

Yes , The ship has to be going faster then the current in order to steer .
That goes for boats to or they will track.

 

[Floorist]

My granddaughter goofing around.

 

[Nick]

Prety Girl .

 

[Floorist]

Gonna be a heart breaker and An IQ off the charts.

 

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My granddaughter goofing around.

I sure hope so.

 

[havasu]

Sweet stuff.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Gonna be a heart breaker and An IQ off the charts.

You aren't a little predigest are you?

 

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You aren't a little predigest are you?

I think it's because she corrects him so often when they watch Jeopardy together. Rusty knows smart when he see's it.

 

[Floorist]

As a four year old, she's five now, she tested past second grade in school work. The scary part is that her little brother tested that high at three. Of course their mother, my daughter, talked at 6 months and has an IQ around 150. I'm by far, the dumbest of the group.

 

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If you consider yourself the dumbest............. I am certainly not related to you.
...take that as a compliment. School was just not my thang.

 

[Don Monfils]

Here's a couple nice ones 😳
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[Nick]

.... Lol

 

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.... Lol

It would be funnier if she wore long pants.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Here is a couple of rugs I made for a friend whom happens to be my ex. She is into Betty Boop. One rug is like no picture of Betty Boop I have ever seen before.

Daris

 

[Floorist]

If I got that close to my ex, it would be to make sure I didn't miss.

 

[Nick]

How you making out with the drive Daris ?