Set and Drift

Set and drift are the navigator's terms for a current: the direction it carries you, and how fast. This is a show about the currents under the things you can see from shore around Anacortes and the Salish Sea. Why a tug follows some tankers and not others. Why the crab season opens when it does. Why the state is tearing up a road culvert that looked fine. Each episode takes one question, follows it to the mechanism underneath, says plainly where the evidence runs out, and ends with something you can go look at yourself. Roughly fifteen minutes, scripted, no chat.

Set and Drift is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #2

  What Gets Counted

  Aug 12, 202613 minS2

  <p>A regulator picks the thing it can enforce, and the choice does not stop at enforcement. Washington chose yards. In the same few years it stood down the drone program that was scoring these whales' body condition, made a commercial reporting stream optional in the same bill that demanded an effectiveness report, and left standing a set of rules under which the location of an endangered orca is a controlled good, exempt from public disclosure and available in real time only to institutions. Meanwhile a voluntary ship slowdown a few miles south reports its results in decibels measured on...

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  The Length of a Football Field

  Aug 12, 202615 minS2

  <p>Since January of 2025, every vessel in Washington waters has had to stay 1,000 yards from a Southern Resident killer whale. That is more than half a mile, it applies to kayaks and paddleboards, and the fine is $500. Federal law in the same water still says 200 yards. Canada, as of this June, says 1,000 metres. This episode asks where those numbers came from and finds that nobody ever solved for one. The oldest was chosen in 1995 because prosecutors found it a useful line, and the rest are copies, roundings, and a nautical unit that was already the working radius of the whole...

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  Episode #3

  Eight Knots

  Aug 12, 202610 minS2

  <p>Most tidal currents are the ocean sloshing back and forth. Deception Pass is a different animal: two large bodies of water sitting at different heights, connected by a gap a few hundred feet wide, with the flow driven by the difference in level rather than by the tide arriving directly. That distinction explains the standing waves, the noise, and the fact that the pass runs effectively one-way for most of every six hours with the direction alternating. It also explains why missing slack is a serious problem or no problem at all depending entirely on which way you were...

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  Episode #10

  The Map Nobody Drew

  Aug 12, 202613 minS1

  <p>There are around twenty inhabited islands in San Juan County and four get a ferry. Nobody chose those four. The state bought a bankrupt private company's routes in 1951, expecting to run boats only until bridges were built — and the bridges were never approved. Meanwhile Waldron quarried the paving stones for Yesler Way until concrete killed the market, and Decatur ran a shipyard that built some forty boats. This episode is about how a service map freezes, and why "decline" is a word worth interrogating.</p><p>Go look at: Shaw when the boat calls there. Ask what analysis in th...

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  Episode #9

  The Existence of Fish to Be Taken

  Aug 12, 202614 minS1

  <p>Washington may have to buy a motel in Port Angeles and demolish it to reach a pipe underneath, at roughly $100 million. That's the logical endpoint of one sentence Judge Boldt wrote in 1974. Nearly $4 billion has gone into replacing fish-blocking culverts, with $5 billion more requested — and the official measure of success isn't returning salmon, it's whether the pipe stays passable. This episode holds two questions apart: whether the state owes this obligation, and whether it's discharging it competently.</p><p>Go look at: a culvert near you. Could a fish swim up through that? Is there a drop at the ou...

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