Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.
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| Treasure Coast Beach This Morning Near Low Tide. |
I mostly worked in the washing machine. By that I mean the area right in front of where the waves were crashing. It isn't easy to work that area when you have decent waves. The currents are strong there, and it is impossible to sweep a coil normally. It can also difficult to recover targets there.
To make things even more difficult, the bottom was very irregular today. There were big dips and pot holes. Many pot holes were more than a foot deep, and it was impossible to see the bottom, so occasionally I would get a jolt as I stepped into a hole.
There are several tricks for working in the washing machine. While I normally don't bother to slip my arm into the band on the arm rest, in these conditions it helps a lot. If your arm is strapped in tightly, it helps you to control the detector in the currents.
It also helps if you swing the coil so you are going with the current as much as possible. Try to time your swing so the coil goes with the current one direction and then back the other direction when the current reverses. It was so tough today that much of the time I was moving my coil more in a tight circle. It took a good bit of effort. If I didn't maintain good control both the detector and my scoop would get washed behind me.
Recovery was the hardest thing today. In those conditions, try to time lifting the scoop so the current is rushing into your scoop rather than from behind your scoop as you lift a scoop from the bottom. If you lift the scoop while the water is coming from behind, it will wash a lot of the sand, and quite possibly the item, out of the scoop as you lift it.
Before you lift the scoop, jiggle it to sift as much through the scoop as you can before lifting it. That is if you think the item is in the scoop, of course.
Don't over-fill the scoop or a lot of the sand, and quite possibly the item, will wash out of the scoop as you lift.
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| Detected Ear Ring. |
I was finding coins and objects mostly in the pot holes, and sometimes in the edge or side of a pot hole.
Working the washing machine is not for beginners.
You also have to have sturdy equipment. An extra brace can be used to help keep the coil in position.
The day before floor bidding begins for the current Sedwick Coins Treasure Auction, which will be at the Doubletree Hotel at Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, there will be a number of educational presentations. So if you are going to be in the Orlando area, you might want to make arrangements to see those.
Here is the schedule.
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Wednesday, Nov.
5
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Lot viewing and educational presentations
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10 AM-6:30
PM EST
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Lot viewing in Evergreen
Room
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2:00-2:45 PM EST
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Ben Costello (director of the 1715 Fleet
Society), guest
Ernie Richards (PLUS ULTRA Newsletter)
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"The 1715 Fleet 300th
Anniversary"
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Buena Vista Ballroom
(English)
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3:00-3:30 PM
EST
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Jose Manuel
Henriquez (president of Dominican Republic Numismatic
Association)
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"La Numismatica Dominicana"
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Buena Vista Ballroom
(Spanish)
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3:45-4:30 PM
EST
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Roberto
Mastalir (researcher-writer)
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"Potosi Cobs: Transitional
period"
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Buena Vista
Ballroom
(English)
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4:45-5:30 PM
EST
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Jorge Emilio
Restrepo (researcher-writer)
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"Coins Issued during Colombian
Independence"
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Buena Vista
Ballroom
(English)
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5:45-6:30 PM
EST
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Cori Sedwick
Downing and Jorge Proctor (researchers-writers), guest speaker Angel Valtierra
(Nat. Mexican Numismatic Museum)
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"Mexican Charles and Joanna
Coinage"
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Buena Vista
Ballroom
(English-Spanish
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Gonazalo is still out there but the other disturbance has disappeared, so it looks like we won't be getting any real storm action.
Friday and Saturday the Treasure Coast will get a little higher surf but only around four or five feet.
The low tide is not getting very low at all these days.
We had got a bit of a cool front and some very nice weather.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
