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The object seen just offshore, on the south shore of the Carquinez Strait, are the hull remains of the lumber schooner Forester. The schooner, launched in Alameda, California in 1900, would take cargoes of lumber from northern forests in Washington and Oregon to points in the Pacific including China, India, and Australia.
The Forester was 250 long, 35 feet wide and weighed 680 tons.
The schooner during its last years, was used as a tidal break around the main tower of the Carquinez Bridge (West of Martinez) while the bridge was being built from 1925 to 1927.
In 1935 the one and only captain of the schooner, Otto Daeweritz, decided to beach the Forester on the mudflats off the shoreline of Martinez and live out his days
During the active days of the sailing vessel, the Forester set world records for a sailing craft and once sailed from Australia to San Francisco in 75 days.
The Forester was the last intact schooner on the Pacific coast. In 1975, the Forester burned to the waterline, the burned hull visible at low tide is all that remains today.
Info from: East Bay Regional Park District
I never thought I would ever be standing this close to this one.
The trinket on the right is the Louis Vuitton Cup, given to the successful challenger for the main prize, the America's cup, on the left.
How to shoot small objects for documentation…the quick and dirty… using a not-so-tough-at-all, broken Olympus Tough TG-1.
Stabilisation of vertical shot on a Kleenex box.
Shot with a Samsung S4
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Castle remnants
Object ID: 33259
Cadastral Community: Puchberg at Schneeberg. The small complex with late Romanesque donjon and four-sided Gothic surrounding wall was built in the first quarter of the 13th century; renovations were carried out in the early 14th century. End of the 16th century, the castle began to decay; in the second half of the 19th century the great hall was demolished. Still existent are the in ashlar masonry carried out donjon, sections of the surrounding wall with a bricked castle gate from the early 14th century as well as northwest of the keep a round-arched entrance portal with chamfered stone jamb from the first half of the 16th century.
Burgruine
ObjektID: 33259
Katastralgemeinde: Puchberg am Schneeberg. Die kleine Anlage mit spätromanischem Bergfried und vierseitiger gotischer Ringmauer entstand im ersten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts; Erneuerungen erfolgten Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts. Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts begann die Burg zu verfallen; in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde der Palas abgetragen. Vorhanden sind noch der in Quadermauerwerk ausgeführte Bergfried, Abschnitte der Ringmauer mit einem vermauerten Burgtor vom Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts sowie nordwestlich des Bergfrieds ein rundbogiges Einfahrtsportal mit abgefastem Steingewände aus der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts.
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Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich (Switzerland) have created 3D images of tiny objects showing details down to 25 nanometres. In addition to the shape, the scientists determined how particular chemical elements were distributed in their sample and whether these elements were in a chemical compound or in their pure state phys.org/news/2015-03-d-images-tiny-nanometres.html
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