West Seattle Tuesday: SBX; symphony; Admiral, Fauntleroy groups

(Baby robin in Junction-area nest; photo by Katie Meyer)
From the WSB West Seattle Events calendar, some of today’s highlights:

SBX ARRIVES: Vigor (formerly Todd) Shipyard on Harbor Island repairs/rehabs/builds a wide variety of vessels, but the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) scheduled to arrive tonight for 3 months of work might be the most unusual one yet. We’ve previewed it here, here, and here; if you want to track its progress through Puget Sound, you can use marinetraffic.com (as of this writing, it’s approaching Port Angeles, at 6 knots).

COUNCIL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE: It’s scheduled for a briefing this morning on the city’s Transit Master Plan – see the briefing document here. The politics site PubliCola previewed it, noting that West Seattle’s light-rail prospects may not be so rosy since WS appears to rate low in the rating criteria for an ideal such corridor. Other agenda items include a bicycle/pedestrian plan presentation (see the document here) with nothing conspicuously showcased from our side of the bay. The committee meeting will be on Seattle Channel (seattlechannel.org, or cable 21) live at 9:30 am.

WESTSIDE SYMPHONY IN CONCERT: This group from the West Seattle Community Orchestras performs Bach and Beethoven selections in concert at Chief Sealth International High School‘s auditorium (2600 SW Thistle Street), 7 pm – here’s our preview with dress-rehearsal video from last night.

ADMIRAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: The Summer Concerts at Hiawatha lineup, City Council candidate Michael Taylor-Judd, and the debut of the new Admiral stickers are part of the agenda at the Admiral Neighborhood Association meeting, Admiral Church basement meeting room (California/Hill), 7 pm

FAUNTLEROY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: Fauntleroy Community Association monthly board meeting, schoolhouse (9131 California SW), 7 pm.

NEW HOURS FOR HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE: The new weekly clinic at Highland Park Improvement Club (12th/Holden) has changed hours to 2-6 pm Tuesdays and will have live (soothing) music today too.

Jack May 10, 2011 (9:03 am)

The marine tracking site no longer seems to have
the SBX1 on the map. At least I can’t find it and I saw it about an hour ago.

Perhaps it was removed for security reasons

WSB May 10, 2011 (9:06 am)

Yeah, it’s there. I’ve been watching it since 1 am or so, aside from the traditional early morning nap. It’s a fuschia-colored icon. It’s currently being shadowed by the Lindsey Foss tugboat, which also appeared next to it off Neah Bay, so I assume that’s its escort (or one of them) – TR

El chile confundido May 10, 2011 (11:26 am)

Interesting that MV Dove, which has been the SBX support vessel, is now docked near New Orleans per marinetracking.

bs May 10, 2011 (11:27 am)

By my calcs, it should arrive in Elliot Bay between 8:30pm and 9:00pm tonight!

RobertSeattle May 10, 2011 (12:37 pm)

Someone upload a photo from Port Angeles

http://marinetraffic.com/ais/showallphotos.aspx?mmsi=369968000

WSB May 10, 2011 (12:47 pm)

Robert, you rock! We’ve been talking on Twitter about how to get the first look – the Port Angeles webcam wasn’t working – got stuck last Friday, apparently. Some other media folks have been scouring for other water-facing webcams along the way. The pic will also suffice!

RobertSeattle May 10, 2011 (1:11 pm)

WSB, of course the picture is from 1980-01-01 :-)

WSB May 10, 2011 (1:13 pm)

Yeah, saw that. “It’s not a glitch, it’s a feature.” Looks a lot like the angle from a viewer video that our pals at KING5 have shared via Twitter:
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http://www.king5.com/news/local/Huge-radar-vessel-on-its-way-to-Seattle-121581254.html

Ken May 10, 2011 (5:44 pm)

It is on the map. There are a couple of cruise ships that are going to get a close look at it pretty soon.

WSB May 10, 2011 (6:26 pm)

Thinking of starting a separate story to track this puppy as it gets closer. Any thoughts or just leave the thread here till it gets in range? I’m off to cover a meeting in about 15 minutes – TR

I. Ponder May 10, 2011 (6:33 pm)

Yes please! I will try and get out later in hopes taking photos.

Pat May 10, 2011 (8:24 pm)

Here it comes. SBX is visable from Alki

WSB May 10, 2011 (8:36 pm)

OK – I launched a new story at the top of the page. Multiple reports it’s visible from here; we have one person at the beach and I’m about to bolt out of the Admiral meeting once its major agenda items are out – send pix if you get ’em, we’ll do our best… TR

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