March 23 -- the nicest day in months in the Pacific Northwest -- began with Hapag Lloyd's Savannah Express entering Elliott Bay. The container ship, with a capacity of about 8400 TEU's, had a light load and rode so high in the water that her propeller was partially visible beneath the stern.
Late in the afternoon, we observed a very usual event -- a Washington State Ferry, the Chelan, dead in the water in the center of Elliott Bay. We later learned, via Channel 14 (Seattle Traffic), that the Chelan was conducting sea trials before heading north to Anacortes.
At the same time we sighted the Chelan, we also saw the regularly scheduled Friday evening departure of an Alaskan Marine Lines barge for Ketchikan. By contrast with the AML barge we covered in our May 12, 2011 post, there were no school buses atop this barge. However, there was still enough unusual cargo to keep us interested. See the boats, cars, trucks, and various items of heavy construction equipment in the photograph below.
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