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10-09-2013, 06:29
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Registered User
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Seen at sea
Saw this at sea yesterday, reported it but thought it should be posted here:
Time: 10:30 AM
Latt: 31 02.80N
Long: 81 25.35W
Current was north @ .5 knts
Looks like a piece of gypsum.
Or a landing place for sea birds.
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10-09-2013, 06:38
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Tampa Bay area
Boat: Hunter 31'
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Re: Seen at sea
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don1500
Saw this at sea yesterday, reported it but thought it should be posted here:
Time: 10:30 AM
Latt: 31 02.80N
Long: 81 25.35W
Current was north @ .5 knts
Looks like a piece of gypsum.
Or a landing place for sea birds.
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Love your "location" comment below your avatar!
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10-09-2013, 06:49
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Posts: 6,185
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Re: Seen at sea
Piece of drywall? I'm not a home construction guy but isn't that pretty soft stuff?
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10-09-2013, 07:40
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
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Re: Seen at sea
FAD Fish agregating device
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10-09-2013, 08:24
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Re: Seen at sea
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
FAD Fish agregating device
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That's kind of what I was thinking, but just on a random drift? Had to have broken off from something.
Regardless, better be trolling a lure when you go past that thing.
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10-09-2013, 08:34
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
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Re: Seen at sea
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
Piece of drywall? I'm not a home construction guy but isn't that pretty soft stuff?
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Yep, and I don't think that it floats, either.
Lots of stuff floating about in some areas, so it's surprising that there are not more collisions with that crap (PNW area maybe there ARE a lot of collisions!).
Cheers,
Jim
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10-09-2013, 09:21
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Long Range Cruiser
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Re: Seen at sea
Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel heart
That's kind of what I was thinking, but just on a random drift? .
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I dont think it looks random. They are bits of aluminum foil up on sticks on it?
Radar reflector. So the fishermen lay it in a known spot and then go look for it an a few days time and grab the Mahi Mahi that have congregated underneith
It maybe anything, of course, its hard to see from here... but in the area you are in theres lots of poor local fishermen?
Mark
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10-09-2013, 11:47
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Registered User
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Re: Seen at sea
No aluminum reflectors, just a flat board, nothing sticking up.
It was about 6 miles out due east of Sapelo Sound, GA
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11-09-2013, 12:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: UMR mm 283 /winter in Kansas
Boat: Bayliner 3870 41' oal.
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A old river rat told me one of the things that can cause the most damage is hitting a piece of plywood after a flood, it'll float just under the surface & plays hell with the dangly parts.
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