http://www.tideandcurrent.net Pacific Coast Tide and Current Tales by Alan Haig-Brown Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:19:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've landed in many places up this way  (Egmont area)  and usually in currents.  One of the trickiest is Earles Cove Barge Terminal at Earles Cove.   When the current marches up and down Agamenenon Channel,  it really makes some landings tough.  You also have the BC Ferry on one side ... http://www.tideandcurrent.net/?p=446 [piclens-lite-link] For mariners working inshore waters, tides can be either friend or foe. A fair tide can add speed or a falling tide can cripple a grounded vessel. In the estuary of the Snohomish River at Everett Washington, the tides are more than all that, they are essential to the work ... http://www.tideandcurrent.net/?p=447   [piclens-lite-link]   I once met the captain of a small US-registered oil exploration boat in Malaga, Spain. He told of bringing the boat from Texas to the Mediterranean. Crossing the Atlantic on autopilot at ten knots had been such a long and tedious journey that, at some point off the Azores, he ... http://www.tideandcurrent.net/?p=279 [piclens-lite-link] As I climbed up into the wheelhouse that night to introduce myself to Captain Mike Cahill, he turned to me and said, “I have only one question for you: “Why?” It was a reasonable question. I had just climbed over a frozen barge in the darkness of the Juneau waterfront. The ... http://www.tideandcurrent.net/?p=278   [piclens-lite-link]   For most Southeast Alaskan towns the schedule container barge services are the only means other than airfreight, getting goods from the southern forty-eight. On a recent late September run Western Towboat’s Pacific Titan towed a deck barge loaded with 560 TEUs of containers. The trip of about 500 miles up ... http://www.tideandcurrent.net/?p=277