Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, MD.

WRAL News reports,

“A third temporary channel for boats to enter and depart the Port of Baltimore has opened…The new temporary path, with a controlling depth of 20 feet (6.1 meters), a horizontal clearance of 300 feet (91.4 meters) and a vertical clearance of 135 feet (41.2 meters), allows a greater variety of vessels to access the port while crews work to reopen the main channel, Coast Guard and port Capt. David O’Connell said in a news release.”

I added a comment noting this development on the earlier post about Coast Guard ships being trapped at the Coast Guard Yard, but on second thought I realized this was worth a separate post. As I noted in the comment, “With a controlling depth of 20 feet this should be sufficient for all Coast Guard vessels except the National Security Cutters. USCGC Eagle might have a problem with the vertical clearance, 135 feet. Reportedly fore and main mast height is 147.3 feet, but they can be lowered 13 feet. Probably at low tide, Eagle could transit the temporary channel OK, but it would look exciting. Maybe at high tide the NSCs could use it too.” (Please forgive the stream of thought approach.)

Before writing this post, I went to United States Coast Guard News hoping to quote the news release in full (surely it would be there) but for some reason there was no news release. Curious? Could this be because its Saturday?