At Anchor Today in Stumptown

Aug 13, 2007 13:28

Tied up next to the Steel Bridge is the first ship I've seen there in months. Its name is Golden Venture, a very shiny Panamax bulk carrier so new that the grain pouring into its massive hatches this morning was probably harvested before the ship left the Chengxi Shipyard at Jiangyin, China ( Read more... )

ships, portland is pretty awesome, at anchor

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vampirefan August 13 2007, 21:09:58 UTC
i'd been wondering if any interesting ships had docked recently :)

very interesting and i agree that they could have come up with something better although "golden showers" made me giggle madly!

i second that "only grains" request...

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emeraldsedai August 13 2007, 22:38:47 UTC
I realized in posting this that it's been a year since my last "At Anchor". There were a few ships over last winter, but sometimes no amount of imagination can create a story out of the available data. In this instance today, as soon as I googled "Golden Venture" and saw "ran aground" I knew I'd hit the ship-story jackpot.

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