By ANNELI FOGT
Editor
The remnants of an Olympia resident’s pop up trailer and raft that went adrift Friday morning and floated north of Vashon decked out in giant Seahawks paintings was found in pieces on Kingston’s Jefferson Beach Monday, according to KOMO News reports.
The smashed trailer was found on the sand against a berm of driftwood logs, according to KOMO News photos. The Coast Guard had told The Beachcomber Friday that the agency was going to let the pop up drift because it was too dangerous to tow back to it’s Ollala port. No one was on board.
The pop up was first spotted around 8:30 a.m. Friday as it was floating through the ferry route from Vashon to Fauntleroy and remained adrift throughout the day. The trailer was complete with a large, outdoor umbrella and folding chair sitting on the deck. Two large wood panels with the Seahawks logo painted on them sat on either side of the trailer’s front door.
US Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan Klingenberg initially told the Beachcomber Friday that the Coast Guard would not be removing it because officials were busy with numerous other tasks and issues they were responding to. He later said that the Coast Guard is going to have to “let it drift” because it’s too dangerous to tow.
The Coast Guard issued a warning Friday urging mariners to be careful due to predictions that the remnants of Hurricane Oho are expected to cause “unusually high ocean swells.”
“We will let it drift until conditions improve,” Klingenberg said.
It is not known when exactly the trailer washed up on shore in Kingston.
Klingenberg said the vessel also got free last year and drifted along a similar route. It was eventually retrieved, but apparently refuses to stay put.
Just before noon Friday Klingenberg said that the owner was not currently facing any fines or repercussions for the loose vessel.
KOMO News reported that Olalla residents are familiar with the trailer normally anchored in Olalla Bay.
Olalla resident Jana Lorraine was interviewed in the Friday KOMO news story and said locals were forced to clean its debris from the beach when it finally washed ashore.
Read the KOMO story here: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Voyage-of-Seahawks-themed-trailer-comes-to-end-on-Kingston-beach-332259762.html
