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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
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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/