Attention to detail orients map maker.Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard BANDON - There are maps, and then there are maps. Most include the standard collection of street grids and highways and rivers, maybe a few points of interest, such as schools and parks. The fancier ones have topographical information, showing mountain heights, canyon depths or the slope of a ridge line. Then there are the kind of maps Ned Reed makes. "Shipwreck shipwreck, complete or partial destruction of a vessel as a result of collision, fire, grounding, storm, explosion, or other mishap. In the ancient world sea travel was hazardous, but in modern times the number of shipwrecks due to nonhostile causes has steadily Chart of Oregon 3 of 5," for example, starts with the standard snapshot of a stretch of Oregon Coast The Oregon Coast is a geographical term that is used to describe the coast of Oregon along the Pacific Ocean. Stretching 362 miles from Astoria to the California border, the Oregon Coast is unique in that the whole coastline is public land. between Winchester Bay and Port Orford with the points of information you might expect to see in the area. But the coastline makes up only about a third of the laminated map's real estate. It's what else is on this chart that sets it apart. Dotted along the coastline and up some of the rivers and bays are a series of numbers in small black type. They correspond to a list of shipwrecks This list of shipwrecks is of those ships whose have been located. Africa East Africa
right-hand side right n → rechte Seite f right-hand side n → lato destro , in alphabetical order. Want to know what happened to the Charles W. Wetmore, a 3,000-ton whaleback whale·back n. A steamship with the bow and upper deck rounded so as to shed water. ship that beached on the North Spit on Sept. 9, 1892? She ran aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. in fog en route to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with a load of coal. Vessel type: SS, or steamship steamship, watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine. Early Steam-powered Ships Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his . Vessel loss: T, for total. Lives lost: 0. Length: 265 feet. The Santa Clara, the Omega III, the Mose, the Bukalation, the New Carissa? It's all here, with footnotes for the source of the information, a key that shows what that type of ship looked like, even a gray superimposed su·per·im·pose tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es 1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else. 2. image for some of them, drawn to scale. Bored with reading up on shipwrecks? Check out the reach of each of the area lighthouses, shown in a precise semi-circle with data from the U.S. Coast Guard. Ever wondered where state-owned waters begin and the feds take over? Ocean depths? It's on the map. And the mind-blowingest part: this is entirely the work of one guy. It took Reed, a retired railroad engineer and graphic artist, the better part of a decade to compile enough historical data to put this chart together, and he has four others on the way, all of which he sells from his home in Bandon. While some might call Reed obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. , "patient" is a better word. "I'm one that doesn't want to get lost," Reed said. "I like to have information at my fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ." Born in Oakland, Calif., and one of five boys, Reed was an artist from an early age, pinstriping cars before he was a teenager for friends and then at auto shows. In college, Reed put his hobby aside and worked nights as a telegrapher for the Southern Pacific Railroad, communicating with dispatchers about the precise movements of trains in order to direct traffic. Eventually Reed quit and moved to the engineering department, where he put contracts together between the company and its clients. He also published map books for the railroad, sketching the length of crossings and other information. But Reed had a beard, and Southern Pacific frowned on facial hair for engineers, so a friend talked him into becoming a locomotive engineer, which put him at the helm of commuter trains running between San Jose and San Francisco until he retired in 1986. Shortly thereafter, Reed moved to Coos Bay, where he landed his first gig as a cartographer, designing maps for the City of Coos Bay. It was an ideal marriage of his interest in graphic design and an engineer's eye for detail. In the 1990s, Reed moved on to shipwrecks, which had always held his interest. "If he knows it," beams Reed's wife, Carol Acklin, "he thinks you ought to know it." He finds information about the wrecks themselves from a variety of sources, including some incomplete databases and Coast Guard books; then he enters each tiny piece of data by hand into a massive database he's been compiling for a decade. When he's finished, Reed will be able to search a list of 14,000 wrecks stretching from the Arctic to Panama. "It's a tool," Reed said. And that's something of an understatement. Winston Ross can be reached at (541) 902-9030. Ned Reed Age: 65 Claim to fame: Makes what are believed to be among the most detailed charts of Oregon shipwrecks Software of choice: Filemaker Pro |
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