66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011 tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."


http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

We're trying to figure out why this thing is still floating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governo...sellini_Bridge
Evergreen_Point

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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011 tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."


http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

I've read articles about how during WW2 they were experimenting with
concrete boats.

On Jun 8, 9:16*am, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011 tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."

http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

I've read articles about how during WW2 they were experimenting with
concrete boats.


No kidding.
Look up the term ferrocement. There was a good sized boat like that on
the hard at a local yacht club.
I believe it was for sale at that point.

On 6/8/2012 8:34 AM, North Star wrote:
On Jun 8, 9:16 am, wrote:
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011 tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."

http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

I've read articles about how during WW2 they were experimenting with
concrete boats.


No kidding.
Look up the term ferrocement. There was a good sized boat like that on
the hard at a local yacht club.
I believe it was for sale at that point.
I saw a concrete sailboat in the 50 ft range. It was ketch rigged if I
recall. Painted royal blue. She was/is a honey.

"Oscar" wrote in message
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On 6/8/2012 8:34 AM, North Star wrote:
On Jun 8, 9:16 am, wrote:
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011
tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the
placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."

http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

I've read articles about how during WW2 they were experimenting with
concrete boats.


No kidding.
Look up the term ferrocement. There was a good sized boat like that on
the hard at a local yacht club.
I believe it was for sale at that point.
I saw a concrete sailboat in the 50 ft range. It was ketch rigged if I
recall. Painted royal blue. She was/is a honey.

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They built a bunch of ships. Were mostly one way trip boats I think. there
is one that you used to be able to fish off of, but the years have made in
unsafe at one of the Santa Cruz Beaches.
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/paloalto/

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:53:11 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:47:42 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011 tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."


http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

That and the fact it has Japanese writing and a Tokyo phone number on
it.

Don't we have Japanese kids running around with cans of spray paint in this country?

wrote in message ...

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:53:11 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:47:42 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:34:02 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

66-foot concrete dock washes ashore in Oregon, may be from 2011 Japan
tsunami

A massive, 66-foot concrete dock mysteriously washed up on the Oregon
shore this week. And officials are trying to figure out if the floating
structure had traveled all the way from Japan after the March 2011
tsunami.

Local affiliate KATU reports that the dock has a placard with Japanese
writing that they are attempting to translate. In addition, the station
traced a phone number on the placard to a business located in Tokyo.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department sent a picture of the placard
to the Japanese consulate in Portland for review.

"We don't know where it's from," said Chris Havel with the parks
department. "We don't know if it's from Japan or not but we have to
eliminate those possibilities as we go forward."


http://tinyurl.com/6vdxv6n

Floating concrete surface docks are fairly common. I suppose it could
be from the US but the timing does seem to point to Japan.

That and the fact it has Japanese writing and a Tokyo phone number on
it.

Now they have actually identified some hitchhikers on the dock that
only come from the western Pacific so we are sure where it came from.
Now the worry is that some of these things may be invasive exotics.



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Probably no more invasive things than we already have.

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:44:26 -0700, "Califbill"
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Now they have actually identified some hitchhikers on the dock that
only come from the western Pacific so we are sure where it came from.
Now the worry is that some of these things may be invasive exotics.



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Probably no more invasive things than we already have.

The scary thing about invasives is you don't know how much trouble
they will be until they are here. It could be a subtle thing that ends
up screwing up the Dungeness Crab harvest or something.


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We have most of the nasty invasives already. Ballast water mostly. They
now have to change ballast water a couple hundred miles out to sea now.
Biggest local problem is the Mitten Crab. They breed in the brackish waters
and eat most everything Last couple years have not been as bad. We think
the local sport fish and sturgeon have acquired a taste for them.