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The steamship Virginia V is the last operational example of a Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet steamer. She was once part of a large fleet of small passenger and freight carrying ships that linked the islands and ports of Puget Sound in Washington state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A bareboat charter, or demise charter, is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement. Instead, the people who rent the vessel from the owner are responsible for taking care of such things and (for commercial shipping) obtaining insurance, usually for a ...
Puget Sound 126 38.4 Acme: 107460 prop tug 1899 Seattle 60 18.3 31 21 B Active [3] 1232 side 1849 New York 172 52.4 510 T-Mex Active: 107448 prop tug 1899 Tacoma 74 22.6 57 34 1949 B Addie: 105447 stern tug 1874 Seattle: 75 22.9 81 1900 A Addie Valvoline: 106409 prop tug 1898 Tacoma 46 14.0 14 7 C-G Adeline Foss [R 2] 204749 prop tug 1898 Tacoma 72
Puget Sound and the many adjacent waterways, inlets, and bays form a natural transportation route for much of the western part of Washington. For navigation purposes, Puget Sound was sometimes divided into the "upper Sound" referring to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, and the lower sound, referring to the waters from the Tacoma Narrows north to Admiralty Inlet.
Crewed charters are staffed by a captain and professional crew that can include chefs, engineers, deckhands, and stewards. Most bareboat charter companies offer basic seamanship courses to prepare clients for handling a boat. These companies may also provide skippered charters, which include a skipper, but no additional crew. [1]
British Columbia's 1,125 km (700 mi) portion of the route includes the wide, protected Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, the narrow Johnstone Strait and Discovery Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland, Blackfish Sound at the northern end of Vancouver Island as well as a long stretch of 400 km (250 mi ...
The bareboat charter market was established first in 1967 in Tortola by Jack Von Ost, [3] founder of Caribbean Sailing Yachts, who conceived the idea of a fleet made up of similar boats, with a standard for maintenance and equipment and boats especially designed for charter and not private use.
Northern Puget Sound" is frequently considered part of the Puget Sound watershed, which enlarges its size to 13,700 sq mi (35,000 km 2). [18] The USGS uses the name "Puget Sound" for its hydrologic unit subregion 1711, which includes areas draining to Puget Sound proper as well as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia, and the ...