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Five people were injured Sunday when a commercial jet boat collided with a private boat on southern Oregon’s Rogue River. The tour boat was operated by Hellgate Jetboat Excursions, which ...
Rogue mail-boat excursions, which had been growing more popular for several decades, began in the 1970s to include trips to as far upriver as Blossom Bar, 20 miles (32 km) above Agness. [66] As of 2010, jet boats, functioning mainly as excursion craft, still deliver mail between Gold Beach and Agness. [67]
A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses an external propeller in the water below or behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat through an intake and into a pump-jet inside the boat, before expelling it through a nozzle at the stern .
The Mary D. Hume was a steamer built at Gold Beach, Oregon in 1881, by R. D. Hume, a pioneer and early businessman in that area.Gold Beach was then called Ellensburg. The Hume had a long career, first hauling goods between Oregon and San Francisco, then as a whaler in Alaska, as a service vessel in the Alaskan cannery trade, then as a tugboat.
A boater rescued in a dramatic U.S. Coast Guard video as a rogue wave capsizes his vessel faces criminal charges, Oregon police say. Jericho Labonte, 35, is accused of stealing the boat in the ...
A variant of the boat's hull is called a modified McKenzie dory or Rogue River dory. The McKenzie designs are characterized by a wide, flat bottom, flared sides, a narrow, flat bow, and a pointed stern. The sole identifying characteristic of the McKenzie River dory is a continuous rocker (the arc from bow to stern along the bottom of the boat).
For boat tours, usually a sightseeing boat is used, but sometimes adapted amphibious vehicles or purpose-built amphibious buses. Boat tours are often on rivers and lakes, but can be on canals as well. [1] [2] Sustainability is an increasing issue, [3] since there can be an impact on the environment. [4]
Ship Flag Sunk Date Notes Location Samuel Roberts: 6 August 1850: Schooner: Reedsport: Bostonian: 1 October 1850: Owned by a man named Gardiner, much of the vessel was salvaged and used in the building of the town of Gardiner, Oregon.