Fleet Week
It only took three years, but this time we’re researching ahead (so as not to friggin miss it again).
Seafair - Seafair Fleet Arrival
Proudly Serving and Protecting
Seafair is proud to welcome the men and women of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Canadian Navy each year to Seattle’s Elliott Bay waterfront. The public is encouraged to take part in Seafair Fleet Week presented by Boeing by riding in the parade of ships or touring the vessels during their stay. The Elliot Bay Parade of ships, including a half-dozen vessels is scheduled for Wednesday, August 1 at approximately 1:00 p.m. The public is encouraged to join in welcoming the fleet at Bell Harbor on Pier 66. Free Public Tours are scheduled for Thursday, August 2-Sunday, August 5 at Port of Seattle’s Pier 91.
Commander Navy Region Northwest - SeaFair 2007 Fleet Week
Some of the finest ships from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Canadian Navy will be visiting Seattle the first week of August for Sea Fair, 2007, and there will be opportunities for the public to tour the vessels.
The beginning of this year’s Seafair festivities will be marked by the arrival of the guided-missile cruiser ship, USS Bunker Hill (CG 52); USS Cleveland (LPD 7); and guided-missile fast frigate ship, USS Rentz (FFG 46). The fleet will be docked at noon and berthed at Piers 90 and 91 along the Seattle waterfront.
The ships will be joined by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast and three Royal Canadian Navy ships participating in Fleet Week activities, beginning with the Elliot Bay Parade of Ships on August 1 at 1:45 p.m.
No submarines. I suppose I’ll have to call all the sailors I see names? To, ah, represent?
July 29th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Way the bajeeus OT, I just looked at that Hippo CLip. I just dunno. That maybe the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a month.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Jessica!!!
July 30th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Say hello to the Coastguard, the Senior Service of the USA. When you see five B-2 bombers fly past, I’m told that they cost as much as the Coastguard costs in total.
July 30th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Heh.
We were driving up the Kitsap Peninsula once upon a time, a long, interminable road completely lacking visual interest (think the Jersey Turnpike, but without New York to look forward to. Or even Philly.), and these big ol’ things started flying past, real low, all sorts of ‘em. Don’t know what they were but it sure was fun!
July 30th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Heh for many years my extended family has maintained a fishing camp on Taylor County’s coast. I’ve seen all kinda fun stuff, especially in the winter when it used to be deserted. One cold spring morning I was casting for ‘em mullets when I saw a black speck in the distance, it got bigger and wider, bigger and wider, I saw the smoke, then started hearing the sound (I had poor hearing even then) I was getting fairly certain it was a low level B-52 practice strike. Kept an eye on it, it didn’t deviate. I held my index finger vertical a foot from my nose. Just like in the books, the sucker started climbing my index finger! I dropped the net and started jumping up and down in insane glee! About 5 seconds from deafness I covered my ear and started to scream. I got down just in case, and looked at the underbelly of a B-52G, with what looked like brand-new white flash paint and a full set of SRAMs. Beautiful.
July 31st, 2007 at 8:48 am
They are beautiful.
La, how martialistic we all are.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:34 am
I was playing soccer at Antioch College in the 1970s when a B-52 came in to land at Wright Patterson AFB and the sun went out. All the hippies getting their athletics credits booed, while I goggled at such an amazing machine. To use a much-cheapened word, awesome.
Initial plans for the B52 were drawn up hurriedly in a hotel in Cincinnati. As were plans for Sherman’s march to the sea, come to think of it.
Antioch College has just announced it’s closing down. Four years of smoking dope didn’t add up to a degree, apparently.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:09 am
Yeah I heard that. They were so busy asking permission for making every move that normal undergrad activities started seriously eating into their tuition-paying time. If you know what I mean.
Some people think that a mountain lake or a Hawaiian sunset are proof of god. I think they, if anything, do the opposite, since I look at a mountain lake and see the glaciers that formed it and light wavelengths and air particles when I look at a Hawaiian sunset. But something like a B-52, or any number of examples of human industry, now that, I think, proves god.
I’m meeting Peter for sandwiches from the market on the roof of his building to watch the ships go by. Yippee!
August 1st, 2007 at 9:50 am
Have fun! Give them a wave from me!