Requesting Nature Of Vessel
Motor yacht Blue Horizon hails AWOOGA on channel 16 while alongside at Cedar Island Marina, seeking clarification of vessel type and stack discharge. AWOOGA declines to elaborate.
6 transmissions 0:35
Visitor CallAWOOGA VHF — Harbor radio theater
Channel 16
None of this is real radio traffic. AWOOGA is real — she’s a fourteen-foot tugboat that genuinely goes out on Long Island Sound — but every other voice here is invented, and the harbor they’re calling from is imaginary and unreasonably patient about all of it. Boats hail, instructions get acknowledged, eyebrow-related incidents are handled with total professional seriousness by people who do not exist. Leave it running. The traffic keeps coming whether you’re listening or not.
STANDBY
16
CH
DISTRESS / SAFETY / CALLING
RADIO OFF
00:00
SET POWERED DOWN
RX
TX
PWR
Radio off
CHANNEL
Hold to arm. This control is deliberately inert — it is not connected to a radio. Holding it opens a walkthrough of the real distress procedure.
- Model
- AW–16
- MMSI
- 338 000 AWOO
- Output
- 25W / 1W / stern look
- Type accepted
- By nobody
Waterproof to the standard of a boat that is fourteen feet long and knows it. Do not open. There is nothing in there.
AWOOGA VHF — Channel 16
Harbor traffic, working calls and minor operational mysteries involving one very small tugboat.
Sound on. Harbor business proceeds at harbor speed.
AWOOGA Communications Archive — Official-ish records
Previous transmissions
Every exchange that crackles through the speaker is recorded, titled and filed for the permanent record, whether the harbor likes it or not. The traffic is fictional, the voices are synthetic, and the harbormaster has declined repeated requests to discuss his expanding role.
- Recordings
- 6
- Transmissions
- 27
- Notable
- 0
- Replays
- 0
Dinghy Shift, Slip Eleven
AWOOGA, alongside at Cedar Island Marina, coordinates the relocation of an unoccupied inflatable dinghy between adjacent slips using standard towing terminology. Marina office concurs.
5 transmissions 0:45
Tug OperationsFuel Dock At Noon
Motor vessel Quahog Queen contacts Cedar Island Marina to arrange fuel and a pumpout. Marina assigns the outer face dock and directs the vessel to a working channel.
5 transmissions 0:26
Routine TrafficWednesday Morning, Clear And Flat
Routine AWOOGA Weather summary broadcast from alongside at Cedar Island Marina, including a note on planned bubble operations.
1 transmission 0:21
WeatherRepositioning Of Fender Board
AWOOGA advised Cedar Island Marina of an intended movement of approximately eleven feet within the marina basin, using standard towing terminology. Marina office acknowledged.
5 transmissions 0:35
Tug OperationsConfirming Vessel Class
Motor yacht Belvedere hails AWOOGA on channel one six seeking clarification of her vessel class and available services while both are alongside at Cedar Island Marina.
5 transmissions 0:33
Visitor Call6 recordings on file