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What have you got to say about the topic of: "anyone lose this???... Jim??". Here's how is started: "THE MYSTERY: ffice ffice" /> > > "This beer fermentation tank washed ashore in the "
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01-10-2008, 01:09 PM
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THE MYSTERY: ffice  ffice" />"This beer fermentation tank washed ashore in the Hebrides of Scotland about Dec. 31, 2007. The tank was manufactured by the Ziemann Company and measures 51 feet long. The container was found by a dog walker on Poll Na Crann beach near Griminish - known as Stinky Bay - west Benbecula in the Western Isles, Scotland. Though the tank has been much in the news, no one has reported the ship from whence it fell. I wondered if your readers could help unravel this mystery with the circumstances as to the loss as well as where and when it fell overboard." | ||
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01-10-2008, 01:56 PM
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thats funny, just not to boaters  and that reminds me of a story: a few years back the tail scetion of a US Fighter F-16 or F-14(cant remember which) washed ashore in England...the plane went down off the coast of Florida 3 years before (pilot got out ok) but this tail section spent 3 years traveling the Gulf Stream, till it beached itself on the British Isls 
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01-10-2008, 03:39 PM
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| ya, can you imagine running into that thing at night on the way to the canyon ....Has anyone else seen anything crazy floating out there? I have heard stories of telephone poles, refrigerators, various containers, etc....but have never actually seen anything like that myself out there. | ||
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01-10-2008, 04:32 PM
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| I hit a 3 foot diameter tree trunk 20 feet long floating inches below the surface. Nothing was sticking out of the water. I hit it at WOT. No damage, go figure. A friend who was motoring along side me in his boat when it happened came over to make sure I was okay. When he saw that I was fine and that the boat and motor were also unscathed he started laughing about what a rooster tail I had put into the air upon contact. Truth be known, it almost made me soil my pants... I few minutes later, we were all under way and the friend in the other boat hits a 4x8 form panel covered in dried cement. He wasn't so lucky. It messed up his hull something awful. Nothing structural but it sure made a mess of the gelcoat. I now stay far away from drift lines. I see stuff floating, I stay well clear and pay attention.
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01-11-2008, 08:38 AM
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| one day out in the "Baltimore" we were trolling along and I looked-up and we were in a sea of 4X4's musta' been a 100 of them, talk about elbows and *******s trying to get lines in and dodge 'em my dad was offshore in the caynons, off Ocean City when a US Navy fixxed-wing aircraft keep circling them, then made an approach towards them, broadside and dropped something in the water they thought "Torpedo" and got the hell outta' there.....later that night, I pulled-out a chart and guess what? they were fishing in one of the offshore "Explosive Dumping Areas"
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01-11-2008, 09:19 AM
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| I saw a full size fride floating off BI once. | ||
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01-11-2008, 01:56 PM
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| saw a lot of misc things. our destroyer hit a whale.. dead...app 40+ ft off bermuda. wrapped up on the bow. brought itall the way to cuba...when it self destructed and fell off at slow speed...jim | ||
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01-12-2008, 10:12 AM
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Thats one hell of a chum slick!!!!! Mundus would have been jealous. | |||
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