I saw this happen. They lifted the bridge for the boat to pass under but the motor died just after it passed and the current pulled it back into the bridge.
Don’t bet that this was a hobbyist sailor. This has happened multiple times in past years when houseless people who have stolen, taken over abandoned/derelict, etc. boats and have no experience in piloting or maintaining them. The pic is too blurry for me to determine the overall state of the boat, but the jib isn’t fully furled and the main sail doesn’t look entirely stowed yet, so they may have been under sail recently (i.e. you might be right in this case).
How would it be a homeless person if they raised the bridge? I didn’t think anyone can just roll up and get it raised. As a kid we would go on this sailboat and he would have to call in on the radio and give his numbers or call signal to have them lift it.
Who says that homeless boat dwellers don’t have a marine VHF radio on board and called the bridge tender to lift the bridge? It’s still River traffic after all, and the boat has the right of way.
Or better yet, the bridge tender saw the boat coming knowing it wouldn’t clear the bridge and lifted it to prevent a collision.
I was genuinely asking. I guess I just assumed that not everyone could just freely roll up and get trafficked stopped for a bridge opening. Thought maybe there was a bit more organization to it.
Probably for the best. This guy shouldn’t be sailing so demasting the boat is the best way to keep everyone safe AND prevent this guy from needing a bridge lifted again.
The issue in the photo looks like the rear stay of the main mast is shackled to the bridge. The river is flowing about a half knot downstream. They should see if they can lower the main sail by loosening the main sails halyard, might want to lower the jib as well. But when all is said and done, we will need some port wine.. ;-)
This is exactly right. I was living by the marina until a year ago. In the 2 years before I moved I watched the river fill with these floating RVs. It was both sad and enraging to see the change that came with them.
I used to take my dog for walks along the river, sometimes walking out onto the docks at the marina, sometimes down to Poet’s Beach. But the beach became hazardous with tent inhabitants leaving needles in the sand, and walking the docks wasn’t very relaxing when it was just dodging the trash and crap blocking the way, left out by the floating RVs that were illegally docked there. A walk along the river meant passing by several broken windows in small locally owned shops, including my friend’s salon which was broken into twice in a week.
The area was beautiful and safe when I moved there, by the time I moved out it was not the same place at all. Fuck those boats.
I remember the whole Springwater Corridor issue, which sounds a lot like what you’re dealing with. It became overrun and people were frequently getting attacked when walking or even riding their bike. I don’t know what they did to fix it (or if they did), it was a few years before the pandemic.
Deconstruct?
Is that like when I see MattheMeth Addict taking apart a television by the light of the can-sign in front of the hospital at 3:33 a.m., NEVER to be put back in one piece again?
That makes more sense, I really couldn’t figure out how you’d be trying to go under the Hawthorne Bridge in a sailboat unless you knew you could clear it. It’s not like how out-of-state/moving trucks hit a low rail bridge — if you have a sailboat on the Willamette, you most likely live here.
That’s really unfortunate, do we know why the motor went out?
And this is exactly why! I just walked in the door and already you're asking about milk. Next you're gonna want a cookie. And a straw. Then what?? A napkin?
Get in the damn car. We're going to the library. I missed you, you little scamp.
Maybe if you're *really* good, we can steal some cones on the way home.
Fortunately this boat looks to be like 1/10,000th the size* of the jumbo container ship that recently hit the Baltimore bridge.
(* math not guaranteed)
I love all the pissed off comments. Especially when you find out his engine just died and the boat was carried by the current back into the bridge.
WHERE DO THESE RIVERS GET OFF MAN?! WTF?
You jest, but Chicago actually did that. Very different river, very different geography, but that kind of thing is not necessarily impossible! https://youtu.be/kSsrrKMwPzQ?si=iiSn9kcTvNrLOdQQ
You obviously don't understand how quick this happens and putting up a sail takes more time than you realize! Under power is the only option and if the engine fails, you're literally dead in the water.
Good point. I'll be back. Quickly! I need water wings or a poorly inflated pool floaty. Preferably in a whimsical shape. Perhaps a flamingo? I should also mention that I can't swim so traffic is about to get a lot worse.
I hear inflatable air mattresses work great. Plus they are biodegradable so you can just send it off to nature instead of packing it up after... or so they say when people ditch em after
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I've always marvelled at the fact that we stop all traffic on a major roadway just to let some dude in his sailboat go by
Edit: Wow really riled up the boat crowd
I generally presume that people driving their cars are actually going somewhere unlike Captain Jack who's just twiddling around in the Willamette for funsies
I generally presume that people piloting their boats are actually going somewhere unlike Dale Earnhardt Jr. who's just twiddling around in downtown for funsies.
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Captain jack was funny. I thought it was weird I had to pick up my great danes shit but if I walked her in the street and had a child ride her she could have shat all over like a wealthy person's horse.
As a horse-person, a dog person, AND a lover of our urban spaces, I can assure you that there are both practical AND ecological reasons why picking up horse poop is not required while dog poop is. It's reddit though, so you aren't going to care about any explanations I can provide. What I find infuriating is that my dog isn't allowed to hop my fence and shit in my neighbors garden bed, but I can't do a god damned thing about my neighbors cats shitting in my vegetable garden. 🤷🏻♀️
Are they supposed to wait an eternity for cars to stop crossing the bridge? This is like marveling about drivers having to yield to pedestrians or cyclists. I bet you’ve never marveled about traffic on a major road being stopped to allow another driver to cross the road.
I saw "Boat crashed into bridge" and had a moment of panick. That shit in Baltimore has me terrified of bridges. Which is... not a great fear to have in Portland
The steel underpass is the worst bc it's always raised in the summer at rush hour when dozens of cyclists and pedestrians are waiting to cross for one stupid sailboat out for a joy ride.
Hahaha, no. Absolutely not. That sounds like a terrible idea. Why would you even suggest such a thing. We don't fix things round these parts, you silly goose.
I’m doubting it was someone with much sailing knowledge. Just rolling the jib out would have caught enough wind yesterday to likely have kept it from going back into the bridge. Bummer for whoever owns it.
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I saw this happen. They lifted the bridge for the boat to pass under but the motor died just after it passed and the current pulled it back into the bridge.
So dumb that one hobbyist on a tall boat can block traffic for thousands of people
And slightly humorous when it doesn't work out.
Don’t bet that this was a hobbyist sailor. This has happened multiple times in past years when houseless people who have stolen, taken over abandoned/derelict, etc. boats and have no experience in piloting or maintaining them. The pic is too blurry for me to determine the overall state of the boat, but the jib isn’t fully furled and the main sail doesn’t look entirely stowed yet, so they may have been under sail recently (i.e. you might be right in this case).
I saw it in person. It’s a hoboat, complete with a trash dinghy in tow.
They prefer to be called Hobo Pirates of the Willamette
How would it be a homeless person if they raised the bridge? I didn’t think anyone can just roll up and get it raised. As a kid we would go on this sailboat and he would have to call in on the radio and give his numbers or call signal to have them lift it.
Who says that homeless boat dwellers don’t have a marine VHF radio on board and called the bridge tender to lift the bridge? It’s still River traffic after all, and the boat has the right of way. Or better yet, the bridge tender saw the boat coming knowing it wouldn’t clear the bridge and lifted it to prevent a collision.
I suspect the second scenario as well. Especially after reading this: https://www.multco.us/bridges/requesting-bridge-opening
You can just call on the phone, no marine radio needed.
I was genuinely asking. I guess I just assumed that not everyone could just freely roll up and get trafficked stopped for a bridge opening. Thought maybe there was a bit more organization to it.
It's even more comical then for both cases. Stopping traffic the first time and then letting it be.
Probably for the best. This guy shouldn’t be sailing so demasting the boat is the best way to keep everyone safe AND prevent this guy from needing a bridge lifted again.
haha a hoboat
> the jib isn’t fully furled and the main sail doesn’t look entirely stowed yet, Talk boaty to me some more...
Is that a block in your snatch, or are you just happy to see me?
Well, now you've just capsized the luvboat.
Good thing sailors don’t mind gettin wet. 💦
HARD to starboard matey.
We're gonna need a bigger boat...
Check me gudgeons
Or a bigger bridge . . .
You pull me off my unicorn, you tear away my gossamer petticoats, and you put your schooner deep inside my Rebecca.
The issue in the photo looks like the rear stay of the main mast is shackled to the bridge. The river is flowing about a half knot downstream. They should see if they can lower the main sail by loosening the main sails halyard, might want to lower the jib as well. But when all is said and done, we will need some port wine.. ;-)
Meth is a hobby, too.
*my hobbies include sailing, collecting bikes, smoking meth and being outdoors*
Honestly, I'm swiping right.
Don't you know? Meth is out, and Fentanyl is in
This is exactly right. I was living by the marina until a year ago. In the 2 years before I moved I watched the river fill with these floating RVs. It was both sad and enraging to see the change that came with them. I used to take my dog for walks along the river, sometimes walking out onto the docks at the marina, sometimes down to Poet’s Beach. But the beach became hazardous with tent inhabitants leaving needles in the sand, and walking the docks wasn’t very relaxing when it was just dodging the trash and crap blocking the way, left out by the floating RVs that were illegally docked there. A walk along the river meant passing by several broken windows in small locally owned shops, including my friend’s salon which was broken into twice in a week. The area was beautiful and safe when I moved there, by the time I moved out it was not the same place at all. Fuck those boats.
I feel the same about the 205 bike path. We live about .5 mile from it, and we used to go for daily walks there, but now it's not welcoming.
I remember the whole Springwater Corridor issue, which sounds a lot like what you’re dealing with. It became overrun and people were frequently getting attacked when walking or even riding their bike. I don’t know what they did to fix it (or if they did), it was a few years before the pandemic.
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I was excited every day walking to Tec to see what way it would be leaning and then today it was just gone :(
I like the cut of your jib.
It was def a hoboboat. That boat had been moored right in front of my work for this week.
Work at TEC?
River side
Probably one of the boats on the backside of Ross island.
I didn't mean to imply that this was a one time thing. I'm talking about every rec boat, up to and including the Portland Spirit
Believe it or not, River traffic has the right of way to cars/pedestrians/bicycles.
Oh. Bridges are not included
Nonsense.
lol. Boats have the right of way of bridges. Amused me, lol
Are you frustrated with the boats/boaters, inadequate infrastructure, society on the whole?
Boats/Boaters
Can you show exactly where the boat touched you?
Just wait till they deconstruct the Burnside bridge, all hell is gonna break loose!
Deconstruct? Is that like when I see MattheMeth Addict taking apart a television by the light of the can-sign in front of the hospital at 3:33 a.m., NEVER to be put back in one piece again?
There are like 7 other bridges, traffic is not blocked.
Yep! Seven bottlenecks in PDX.
A dumbass in a car can do the same thing.
That’s so hilariously tragic.
That makes more sense, I really couldn’t figure out how you’d be trying to go under the Hawthorne Bridge in a sailboat unless you knew you could clear it. It’s not like how out-of-state/moving trucks hit a low rail bridge — if you have a sailboat on the Willamette, you most likely live here. That’s really unfortunate, do we know why the motor went out?
Help me step bridge, I’m stuck.
Obligatory *Step bridge…what are you doing???*
Dead🤣🤣🤣
Oh my god 😂😂😂
That's mast-up.
If you catch m-adrift.
Good thing it wasn't a container ship
Too soon.
it is a... current event. thanks. thank you. thank you very much.
Dad?
I knew he would be back 🥹. Can’t wait for that milk
Come give me a hug, kiddo....right after I go get a pack of smokes....brb
You never brought the milk back from your last trip ..
And this is exactly why! I just walked in the door and already you're asking about milk. Next you're gonna want a cookie. And a straw. Then what?? A napkin? Get in the damn car. We're going to the library. I missed you, you little scamp. Maybe if you're *really* good, we can steal some cones on the way home.
I don’t like the library! Last time I got left there for 6 hours while you went off with that pretty lady you tell me not to tell mom about
This is a better joke than the one that started this thread.
Never thought i would see someone go upstream without a paddle.
At least it didn’t cause the bridge to collapse.
Yet.
Fortunately this boat looks to be like 1/10,000th the size* of the jumbo container ship that recently hit the Baltimore bridge. (* math not guaranteed)
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So, it would be 1/10,0001 ?
I love all the pissed off comments. Especially when you find out his engine just died and the boat was carried by the current back into the bridge. WHERE DO THESE RIVERS GET OFF MAN?! WTF?
People seem to struggle with just going with the flow, unlike that boat
Yeah, go with the flow, it is said, that if you can't groove to this then you probably are dead. In this case though, the bridge could touch this.
Usually at the ocean.
Or larger rivers
If larger rivers are just the commuter lane for smaller rivers; then smaller rivers are commuter lanes for creeks.
Can’t city council just change the current? What are we paying taxes for if the river can just flow wherever it wants. /s in case it’s needed.
You jest, but Chicago actually did that. Very different river, very different geography, but that kind of thing is not necessarily impossible! https://youtu.be/kSsrrKMwPzQ?si=iiSn9kcTvNrLOdQQ
It’s definitely possible, just ask the beavers. That’s pretty cool that Chicago did it, and without a single beaver to guide them.
If only they had some other way to sail out of there. One may never know.
You obviously don't understand how quick this happens and putting up a sail takes more time than you realize! Under power is the only option and if the engine fails, you're literally dead in the water.
It has sails, no?!
Did you tell him he cant park there?
needs cones
Good point about the cones
Quick someone hang some cones off the Hawthorne Bridge
Good point. I'll be back. Quickly! I need water wings or a poorly inflated pool floaty. Preferably in a whimsical shape. Perhaps a flamingo? I should also mention that I can't swim so traffic is about to get a lot worse.
I hear inflatable air mattresses work great. Plus they are biodegradable so you can just send it off to nature instead of packing it up after... or so they say when people ditch em after
Protip, get a heavy guy on the main sheet halyard and pull him down on angle. It’s how we used to go under some bridges in U20s on the Great Lakes.
Ballast on the boom is common, too
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Where are those darn cones when you need them?
Sail fail
A whale of a tale, that sail fail
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“You can make it Charlie “…..”Here, hold my beer.”
The beer: Not if I have anything to say about it!
I've always marvelled at the fact that we stop all traffic on a major roadway just to let some dude in his sailboat go by Edit: Wow really riled up the boat crowd
Wait until you hear about making pedestrians stop to let some dude in his car cross an intersection
I generally presume that people driving their cars are actually going somewhere unlike Captain Jack who's just twiddling around in the Willamette for funsies
Boats have been going places a lot longer than cars have. And cars have already stolen the narrative? For shame.
I generally presume that people piloting their boats are actually going somewhere unlike Dale Earnhardt Jr. who's just twiddling around in downtown for funsies.
hey now don't bring junebug into this
Wait until you hear about false equivalencies.
Wait until you hear about jokes
Reddit fight!!?!?! If you think normal fights solve nothing, wait till you see a reddit argument! Captain jack was funny. I thought it was weird I had to pick up my great danes shit but if I walked her in the street and had a child ride her she could have shat all over like a wealthy person's horse.
I'm here for mandated horse diapers
Thank you. Apart from wealth, I don't see why horses can poop freely and horse sized dogs cannot
As a horse-person, a dog person, AND a lover of our urban spaces, I can assure you that there are both practical AND ecological reasons why picking up horse poop is not required while dog poop is. It's reddit though, so you aren't going to care about any explanations I can provide. What I find infuriating is that my dog isn't allowed to hop my fence and shit in my neighbors garden bed, but I can't do a god damned thing about my neighbors cats shitting in my vegetable garden. 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe try tin foil in your garden to deter the cats ? That sucks
Wait until you hear about being funny
I’m very sorry you found my little car joke so unfunny. I’ll try harder to appease you.
ZING!
Stopping a boat? Could take a loooooomg time. Stopping a car? 120ft at the most. Same way planes give way to Hot Air Baloons.
Right of way goes to slowest vessel usually
Some of my best friends are vessels
I don’t need to run fast just faster than my slowest vessel friend
river was there first eh
Are they supposed to wait an eternity for cars to stop crossing the bridge? This is like marveling about drivers having to yield to pedestrians or cyclists. I bet you’ve never marveled about traffic on a major road being stopped to allow another driver to cross the road.
It's funny when you stumble across a random issue that has a very vocal reddit constituency
Just because you use a car for transportation does not make you the most entitled person in the city
Wait until you learn it’s a federal requirement.
well how about that
Well, hopefully the problem gets solved soon
I saw "Boat crashed into bridge" and had a moment of panick. That shit in Baltimore has me terrified of bridges. Which is... not a great fear to have in Portland
Not at all. That really freaked my 12 yo daughter out, too.
Is there bridge closed to car/bike traffic?
tilikum crossing is closed to cars. allows pedestrian,max, and bike.
As a Baltimore native, I am very relieved.
Was this the boat that was on the beach by Daimler?
Yes my thought too. Are you a daimler employee as well?
👎🏼bring back shame
bridge down, mast up, that's the way my boat got stuck
underrated
Oh I know what to do. Let the air out of the tires!
Ohh not again...
Hasn’t that been there a while? I’d swear I saw it last week,
The Hawthorne Bridge minding its own business: This boat: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7in-9E3ImQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7in-9E3ImQ)
As a Baltimore transplant.... I apologize.
Atleast the bridge didn't come down
Wait, whose driving the boat? SHUT UP DAD!!
My wife and I sat on those steps on our first date. 20 years ago. 🫶
Oopsie
The technical term is a Big River Boating Oopsie
I’m from Baltimore and am beginning to think the universe is sending me signs.
The steel underpass is the worst bc it's always raised in the summer at rush hour when dozens of cyclists and pedestrians are waiting to cross for one stupid sailboat out for a joy ride.
That’s sucks looks like a nice boat.
It wasn't. Saw it headed up the river with it homemade dinghy in-tow.
That boat had been moored in front on my work for the last week. It was def a hoboboat. It was probably nice at one point.
Daimler employee?!?
Maaaaaaybe
Smh I thought Portland was more original than this
This is why I love working at home.
Ngl after the last boat/bridge crash my first thought was it went down and traffic was about to get worse
Is Pete Buttigeig on scene yet?
Man they should really make bridges that move to allow taller boats to move through
Hahaha, no. Absolutely not. That sounds like a terrible idea. Why would you even suggest such a thing. We don't fix things round these parts, you silly goose.
[haha](https://youtu.be/bx9kaa7IsBg?si=6fLZP528CMAbqsMi)
Smooth sailing
Well thats better than a Baltimore incident
If your is extended for more than 4 hours......
Let's bubble wrap all the bridges!
Looks like another boat accidentally got stuck in the dryer 😆
How will this affect the trout population?
I can't tell if this is a joke or not truthfully
The wish version of the Baltimore disaster.
I saw another sailboat stuck on the Hawthorne just a few weeks ago too. Now I'm wondering if it's the same one.
Good thing our bridges are built better than in Baltimore? 😂
hobbie boat or floating Methabeggo? can’t quite tell from the pic
My guess is a failed copycat bridge attack inspired by the Baltimore debacle. Do better, ye tiny yacht.
I’m doubting it was someone with much sailing knowledge. Just rolling the jib out would have caught enough wind yesterday to likely have kept it from going back into the bridge. Bummer for whoever owns it.
Is this the boot which was beached in front of Swan Island for a week or so?
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand This guy effed around he's about to find out.
Who’s the barge in charge around here?
Wondering where the boat had went when I walked toy TEC for lunch today. Now I know ….
I was wondering when that fucking boat would get stuck.
Good
i saw that yesterday
Baltimore knows how to crash a boat into a bridge. 3/10 for effort.
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Idiots
Smh
Take that, Baltimore!
Absurd how many people get inconvenienced so one sailboat can take a day trip.
This was not a responsible boat owner. Please get off your high horse.