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12-08-2012, 15:32
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Beware of Rocks ... FLOATING Rocks!
"on Thursday sailors from New Zealand's Royal Navy found nearly 10,000 square miles of the lava rock bobbing on the surface of the South Pacific Ocean."
'Weirdest thing' floats in South Pacific - CNN
Always something new 
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12-08-2012, 16:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Bremerton, WA
Boat: Caliber 40 LRC
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
Just when you think you've heard it all...
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12-08-2012, 16:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: W Florida
Boat: Still have the 33yo Jon boat. But now a CATAMARAN. Nice little 18' Bay Cat.
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
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Officials reported the floating rock shelf to be 250 nautical miles long by 30 nautical miles wide.
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Bet that would be somthin' to see fer sure.
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Who knows what is next.
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14-08-2012, 08:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: WNC mountains U.S.
Boat: Haven't seen it yet. Bought on Ebay
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What size Bruce would you use to anchor that thing? And can I claim it as my own? 
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If you FEEL like you have been heard. You definitely weren't listening,
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14-08-2012, 08:40
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
That'll clean your bottom!!!!!
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14-08-2012, 08:46
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
put your feet over and have the pumice sand your callouses.....
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14-08-2012, 09:25
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Formerly: Capt Wraun
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Port Louis, Haida Gwaii (The edge of the world)
Boat: Corbin39 CC Cutter Rig
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
QL! Mother earth preparing for her next guests?
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14-08-2012, 20:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Bundaberg, Qld.
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
Very short video clip....
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14-08-2012, 22:08
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: north carolina
Boat: command yachtsdouglas32
Posts: 3,113
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
now that would be a great place for the start of living organism!
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14-08-2012, 22:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Boat: Tartan 30
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
Why do they always have to bring Rhode Island into the mix? Does anyone actually conceptualize the size of Rhode Island?
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14-08-2012, 23:47
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Brisbane Australia
Boat: Multihulls - cats and Tris
Posts: 4,859
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
 Whats Rhode Island?
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15-08-2012, 00:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Pacific NW, sailing the Columbia River, USA
Boat: Gemini 105MC 34 ft hull#753
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
Way kewl, some one needs to mine it if it is a beauty product, big $$ 
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Wind in my hair and a nice catamaran
Phil & Elaine
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15-08-2012, 00:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Southampton UK
Boat: Jaguar 22 mono called Arfur.
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
This is actually a hazard to shipping, and sailors. It may be light but how big are some of these rocks, and there'll certainly be little anti-fouling or gel coat after a passage through this stuff at normal speeds, and who knows what it will do to cooling systems. Certainly it's not going to pass through filters.
How many commercial vessels have sails as a back up plan?
What will nature throw at us next???
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A few places left in Quayside Marina and Kemps Marina.
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15-08-2012, 00:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Pacific NW, sailing the Columbia River, USA
Boat: Gemini 105MC 34 ft hull#753
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Re: Beware of Rocks..........FLOATING rocks!
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Originally Posted by Factor
Whats Rhode Island? |
It's a long skinny state about the size of this floatsome on the USA's east coast 
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Wind in my hair and a nice catamaran
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