Crabbing season here in Oregon can start December first or even January depending on the crab quality. We've had some nasty winds and ocean conditions recently, to the point of ZERO fishing boats from San Francisco, north to British Columbia.
Not today. Winds look like 10 mph along the coast. I'm glad grandpa wasn't a fisherman.
All of the orange ones are probably crabbers.
All the images are from Marinrtraffic.com. I check in there a couple times a day just to see who and what's out there. If I pay attention and get lucky, I'll know when a pilot boat is headed out to put a pilot onboard a ship. In that case I can go watch it come in, or better yet, watch them turn the ship around and dock it. They have a turning basin in the bay at the casino. They turn the 660 foot long ship around right in front of the casino and hotel rooms where there's a loooong, wide boardwalk. I'm sure for visitors, it's quite a treat seeing a large ship slowly turning, just 150 feet in front of you. It's fun to watch, mainly because these monsters are almost silent during the process ...the only sound is two tug boats, one on each side, communicating their progress by tooting their horns to each other in Morse code.