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| Treasure Coast Beach This Morning. |
With the rougher surf we've been having lately, I've been checking the beaches more often for you. Very little has changed. Even though the surf has been bigger, the waves have been hitting consistently from the east. As a result, we've had almost no erosion.
There is still seaweed and the beaches are pretty mushy. At John Brooks, and I suspect elsewhere, there was a little more scalloping.
The surf this morning didn't look any more than six feet to me. Maybe it will get higher later.
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| Surf This Morning a Little Before Low Tide. |
I just looked at three beaches on South Hutchinson Island this morning.
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| Breaking Swells. |
At Fort Pierce South Jetty Park, there was some erosion and one fellow was metal detecting. There were a good number of coins and a few other things.
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| Erosion South of Fort Pierce Jetty. |
As I mentioned the other day, you can find erosion around rocks and other obstructions.
This sand is new renourishment sand but still there were good numbers of coins.
Leslie is still hanging around but won't affect us much, other than sending some more of the same.
The system down by Central America could come up into the Gulf. That remains to be seen.
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I've talked about sheathing used on ships before and wanted to post something I found in a book I've been reading - Six Galleons for the King of Spain by Carla Phillips.
… To protect against shipworms, tarred cloth and a thin layer of lead sheathing were often nailed to the hull below the water line. As a final step, the entire hull was coasted with a mixture of tar and some of grease...
I've talked about the transitions in sheathing before and I've shown some dug lead sheathing as well. It is not uncommon for cloth marks to be found on the lead.
The six ships discussed in this book were built between 1625 and 1628.
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We're still supposed to have more high surf, but I'm not expecting much improvement in beach detecting conditions.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@ comcast.net
This sand is new renourishment sand but still there were good numbers of coins.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
The system down by Central America could come up into the Gulf. That remains to be seen.
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| Two Large Crumpled Pieces of Copper Sheathing Dug on the Treasure Coast. |
… To protect against shipworms, tarred cloth and a thin layer of lead sheathing were often nailed to the hull below the water line. As a final step, the entire hull was coasted with a mixture of tar and some of grease...
I've talked about the transitions in sheathing before and I've shown some dug lead sheathing as well. It is not uncommon for cloth marks to be found on the lead.
The six ships discussed in this book were built between 1625 and 1628.
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We're still supposed to have more high surf, but I'm not expecting much improvement in beach detecting conditions.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@ comcast.net
