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That darn boat
By adamg on Sun, 03/28/2021 - 9:06pm
Garrett Dash Nelson, curator of maps and director of geographic scholarships at the BPL's Leventhal Map Center, has come up with this neat Ever Given placer thingee that lets you see the stuck boat anywhere in the world, like, say, the inner harbor between the North End and East Boston or in Jamaica Pond:
Or in the Charles between the BU and Mass. Ave. bridges:
Or on Beacon Street and Cleveland Circle in a failed (but oh so close) attempt to get to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir:
Earlier:
That time a boat blocked an intersection in downtown Boston, for real.
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Comments
Storrowed? Of course
Wouldn't take 5 or 6 days to
Wouldn't take 5 or 6 days to clear it in Boston.
The MSP would have it outa there in 45 minutes with a ticket while on OT.
The actual size button is nice
People are having fun jamming that boat into any opening regardless of size, but I like that that website does have a checkbox to actually see the boat at the proper scale. Container ships do stop at the container terminal next to Castle Island, and it would not take much of a twist to get Ever Given stuck in the Reserved Channel, and it certainly looks like it just is too big for what the dock can accommodate, even if it wouldn't actually block off the Inner Harbor.
Yep!
But could it actually berth at the Conley terminal? All that dredging they were doing in the harbor awhile back was meant to increase the size of ships that could get there, but does anyone know if it was enough to allow a bigboi like this ship?
And the answer is: No, Boston couldn't handle the Ever Given
Yes, I did some research.
Shout out
To old fashioned boat shoe leather reporting.
Looks to be about 200 Smoots long
...give or take an ear.
Good guess
It's roughly 235 smoots (+- ear), which I know because you can ask Google "how many smoots in X feet" (in this case, 1,312) and it will tell you (by way of comparison, the Mass. Ave. Bridge, for which smoots were first used, is about 372 smoots).
the best one i've seen
is "what if the boat was a line to get into the Model," and the boat would literally stretch the length of Brighton Ave. from Blanchard's to the Twin Donuts/North Beacon light.
big boat.