Floating Debris

Up here in NY.... The hudson river is just a junk pile of broken down docks , Furniture....

We almost hit a bright red couch a few years ago going to statue of liberty.... Not one call over the radio from all the ferry traffic to give someone a heads up....

I know when ss3 has a boat show in Chelsea piers they send a boat out to clean up debris in the area... ITs really sad....

Rob
 
Thanks Ken...That was very helpful

Anthony
2006 260 Sundancer
"Angela Marie"
 
I don't know about red couches, but the Hudson River sometimes contains a lot of woodland debris, especially after heavy rains that wash it all out of the woods and streams. A 26 ft Searay at the end of last summer almost had it's outdrive sheared completely off. Right now the Hudson is somewhat frozen, so last week I went to the local waterfront to take a couple of pictures. There was a big piece of 2" rope - like tugs use - that had floated up onto the rocks. It was frozen in the ice but it looked kind of yellowish like the polypropylene ropes. That thing could have damaged the occaissional freighters through here.
 
Getting back to the initial question ...
If we in the Pacific Northwest called the CG every time we saw dangerous floating debris we'd
be on the horn every minute.
 
Potterhead,
Same is true here on the Delaware River. After a really good rain you can almost hop across from PA to NJ on the logs and debris in the water. We save securite messages here for the "holy sheet" sized debris.

Ken
 
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