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15-11-2018, 09:50
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: Caribbean
Boat: Catana 42
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Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
This xxxx was found washed up on the beach in Northern California. It just arrived, so one has to assume it was floating around in the Pacific a few days ago. No one seems to have any idea what it is (besides pirate treasure)....
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15-11-2018, 10:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Left coast.
Posts: 1,451
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
It’s an old, pirates rum chest. Get it open!!!
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15-11-2018, 11:52
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: UK and Central America
Boat: Tucker CA41 Steel 40 foot Ketch
Posts: 402
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
It looks to me a bit like a second world war Mulberry harbour section
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15-11-2018, 12:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Kemah, TX
Boat: 1979 Cape Dory 30 Cutter
Posts: 138
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Burn it. Immediately!
Whatever you do, DO NOT OPEN IT.
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15-11-2018, 12:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: North Germany
Boat: 29 ft
Posts: 270
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Floating pontoon? Used in locks or in tidal waters. From Japan?
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15-11-2018, 13:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Slidell, La.
Boat: Morgan Classic 33
Posts: 2,845
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Whatever it is, if it's been floating long I wouldn't go near it. No marine growth at all?!
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15-11-2018, 16:08
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, in Tasmania, Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 29,766
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
What, you think it's radioactive? Mmmm.
Ann
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15-11-2018, 16:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Back in the boat in Patagonia
Boat: Westerly Sealord
Posts: 8,381
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
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Originally Posted by Hesti
Floating pontoon? Used in locks or in tidal waters. From Japan? |
My thought as well.... not unlike large fenders they used to have between ships and wharves in Australia back in the dream time...
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15-11-2018, 17:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: NY
Boat: 39' Whitesell Ketch
Posts: 71
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Is that graffiti on the end?
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15-11-2018, 18:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Wandering the US Gulf Coast
Boat: 78 Pearson323 Four Winds
Posts: 2,212
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Looks like is says DODO Bob on the end. Which, surprisingly, yields millions of google hits. Including facebook users, maybe one of them has that pic in their profile.
Based on the size of the timbers, and the construction, it must have been built many years ago.
That large chain link on the bottom left suggests multiple like items chained together.
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15-11-2018, 18:46
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Long Island, New York
Boat: Beneteau 423 43 feet
Posts: 877
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Are you kidding me??? This has been there for a few days and nobody has inspected it. I would have had this thing figured out after 15 minutes..... maybe not know what it is/was but certainly would have known if there was gold trinkets or the entire play boy magazine collection inside. Nothing else it looks like it would make a great coffee table. I’ll pay for shipping if you lead the ups guy to it!
Greg
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15-11-2018, 23:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Oakland, CA
Boat: Freedom 38
Posts: 2,503
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
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Originally Posted by NYSail
Are you kidding me??? This has been there for a few days and nobody has inspected it. I would have had this thing figured out after 15 minutes..... maybe not know what it is/was but certainly would have known if there was gold trinkets or the entire play boy magazine collection inside. Nothing else it looks like it would make a great coffee table. I’ll pay for shipping if you lead the ups guy to it!
Greg |
This was all I could think of, too. It is cool looking. Where are all the kids these days? Someone needs to bring a few 12-year-olds down there and ask them what they think...in about an hour that thing will have been opened, upended, made into a fort, used as a floaty thing, tossed around, turned into something for sword fighting...and so on.
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16-11-2018, 00:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arctic Ocean
Boat: Under construction 35' ketch (and +3 smaller)
Posts: 2,907
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Ask russians..Big, rusted iron and rotted wood, must be Russian.
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16-11-2018, 00:57
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Slidell, La.
Boat: Morgan Classic 33
Posts: 2,845
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Y'all realize that thing looks to be around 4 ft by 6 ft by about 12 ft and solid wood, so it probably weights about 7-8 tons, right?
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16-11-2018, 02:12
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 114
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Re: Any idea what this (formerly) floating object is?
Keel blocking out of a dry dock?
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