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Blog entry by Gary Fixler posted 144 days ago 447 reads 0 times favorited 11 comments Add to Favorites Watch
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planks washed ashore in Britain from a shipwreck

In early February, 2009, in rough seas 14 miles off the coast of Sussex, England, Russian cargo ship Sinegorsk lost its load of 1500 tonnes of sawn timber, which washed ashore on the beaches of Kent. The police issued warnings, but scavengers came out in force.

Daily Mail has several great shots of people braving the icy surf and a high wall to claim the lumber, which is apparently still the rightful property of the original owner, according to law. Police were powerless to stop the looters, or didn’t care hard enough :) The article and comments shed a little bit of contradictory light on the maritime laws.

I think this is one of those times when you rent a flatbed truck, or in this case, a “lorry.”

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator


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MattD

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posted 144 days ago

“That’s an interesting piece of furniture.”

“Thank you. I built it from stolen knotty pine.”

-- Matt - Syracuse, NY

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Gary Fixler

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posted 144 days ago

:)

I was thinking more like:

“Whoa, where did you get this second house?”

“I stole it from the ocean.”

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator

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socalwood

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posted 144 days ago

A lamination gone all wrong – - -

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Rustic

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posted 144 days ago

A lumberJocks dream

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

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patron

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posted 144 days ago

i imagine there are allot of folks

“pineing away “

over this !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

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Kent Shepherd

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posted 144 days ago

Way more fun than an oil tanker loosing it’s load. ——Interesting.
Thanks for sharing.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

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Karson

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posted 144 days ago

The beaches are fouled with driftwood. Great story.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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spanky46

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posted 143 days ago

Patron,
Maybe there just plane board!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

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jockmike2

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posted 143 days ago

I remember Yorkshire Stewart telling us about this 6-7 months ago. He said it was on the other side of the Island from him so he didn’t benefit, or he wouldn’t I think it was the latter.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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Brad_Nailor

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posted 143 days ago

Thats an amazing picture!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

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TopamaxSurvivor

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posted 143 days ago

I doubt if it will lst long. My brother in law lost power crossing the bar at Westport, WA. He washed up on the jetty which is solid rock. He said by the time he and his 3 kids got off, there wasn’t much left but the engine block! I would guess a lot of the lumber will break up in short order too.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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