Beach combing for Japanese Glass Floats in ALaska

Beach Combing Glass Floats in Alaska
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[@ALayne08]

Paul, I hope you and Gertrude are still hunting floats together. I hope it's just the weather keeping you from posting videos. I just found your channel and would like to see more even if it's just cleaning the floats and showing them. I really enjoyed the subject matter. Keep us updated and take care man.

[@russellking9762]

On the East Coast of New Zealand in the 60’s and 70’s we used to find these but the ones we found had Portugal markings on them and were the size of a soccer ball the colours of the glass ranged from clear opaque orange to transparent olive to a light blue. I can remember my mother incorporating them into her hanging macrame projects and selling at the markets

[@sharonzona4346]

I JUST found your channel and it was so exciting to see SO MANY glass floats! I really enjoyed watching and hope that you and Ms. Gertie post more videos come spring. I was lucky enough to visit Fairbanks and Anchorage last September. What a beautiful state you live in!

[@msmegification]

Wow, you truly live in paradise!!! I am so envious, would love to go out on one of these trips with you! Right now it's over 100 degrees daily where I live in northern CA, and the weather there looks sooooo enviting! Oh what a luxury some of that cold air would be right about now! I cannot imagine what the winters must be like, but I'd love to experience it one day. I do hope you continue to make more videos, as I have enjoyed these two immensely, they are a wonderful escape for myself and many others here as well. WIshing you and your lovely wife and pup happy and safe trails!!!

[@porterspnwadventures610]

Thanks for showing the great floats. What great finds!

[@lillyfranzen7802]

Thank you for sharing this video of your great finds! And your adorable beach combing buddy!

[@kmwhidbey5049]

Hey Mr Umlauf- we enjoyed watching your video tonight. Gertie is awesome. Thanks for taking us along on your latest adventure. Cheers

[@alisonl9731]

Love your lifestyle and Gertie is so talkative!

[@debrabrooks6138]

Nice video! Love the colors of the floats!

[@violetflame88]

Amazing and so wish I could experience a find like this!

[@kholbrook203]

I’m up late tonight. I just had to watch each of your videos. I love sweet Gertie❤️. Definetly such a sweetheart to have by your side. I’ve read about how big the ocean trash is in the ocean. I don’t understand why the government doesn’t have money set aside for the cleanup of the oceans and also to educate the countries that are a big part of the problem. When ever I go to the beachI always take a trash bag to pick up what trash I can. It bothers me so much. And so much marine life dies because of this mess. It was just amazing to know you can land on this beach and find all those floats. What a site. You have a lot of followers and come Spring, I hope you will start making more videos. They are so exciting and educational when you talk about a particular float. You could make some videos in the winter like maybe how you clean them up and pick out different floats and tell us what you know about it. The aprox. age. Maybe even give a history Lesson on floats like when they started making them and how they were made and why are some floats are clear and some are frosted and why some you can see how the cording was around the float. Anything else you can think of. What countries made the floats. When did the Japanese make them with a seam and for how long and the same with plastic. Loved your video. Can’t wait for the next one. Take care.

[@RonnaJaneBullard]

I Love this so much!!! I hope to see more videos!! I just discovered your channel!! I really Love Glass Floats!!! I think I found 1 on our beach Padre Island National Seashore, Texas!! My mother has found a few here throughout the years. Thank you for these videos!! 💜

[@jburritt426]

Nice finds. Nice plane too.

[@pawpatrolnews]

You and Gertie make a good team!

[@MissLoriAAnne]

Just found your channel I hope to see more!

[@kellybetts4824]

thankyou your video is awesome

[@andie2809]

Ok I'm in love with the super cub and the glass!! I'm a private pilot and started out in a Champ then to a cub then to a Luscombe then a Pitts S2A!! 💜🧡💛💚💙

[@serrinahuntercarducci3057]

I absolutely love your videos. I have my private pilots license and I would love to do what your doing some day!

[@jellythecube]

Fascinating!

[@thefrontporchcrafter572]

That is so cool! Wish I could do that. I lived in Alaska when I was younger. Survived the earthquake of 1964. Never got to do that though. Looks like fun. Love your dog. Lost my thirteen year old baby girl last year. Happy hunting. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏻

[@anewblu6916]

We love it!!!

[@ronhicke118]

Great video. We have found only 2 floats ever, on the Oregon Coast.

[@icgeorge]

love it fantastic paul much love to gertie

[@minnesotamike9493]

Nice finds. I would pay to fly with you looking for floats

[@myfriendoretheshepherd6618]

Hey Paul as an art director I ask that maybe you try “showing what you do” by filming for your fans how you remove the bulbs and then at the end of each haul you show all the glass bulbs you found for that day! That is what the fans want to see. They like the big reveal so to speak.

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

Hi There Thanks for your comments. As to your questions, I sell the glass floats and sorry I don't take passengers. Once I pick up and load the floats in poly sacks Id have to dump them all out again at the end of the day and reload them. So I don't think that's and option. I'm an amateur at film making but I'm working on getting better. I have 5 or 6 beach combing videos on You tube and I'm doing better than my first one years ago but still room for improvement.

[@craigdutton6072]

Gerti is a pretty cool old hound ❤

[@Sunny-rh1yp]

Amazing fines. I've yet to find one.

[@cj.4431]

Wow. I would.be going crazy finding these. Don't think I'd want to leave until I collected all of them! How much to buy one from.you?

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

Please check out my website. alaskaglassfloats.com

[@blairlastname8129]

Where is this????!!!!!!! I would love to see if I could find my first glass float!

[@markrouse2416]

The ocean is definitely a great classifier. You can look all over for a certain kind of sea bean or amber and find none for years. But once you nail down that certain beach for a given thing you can keep coming back back for more.

[@gretchenkoontz2836]

Fascinating videos. What do you do with them all?

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

I sell them on alaskaglassfloats.com

[@judyvareberg2275]

I think he has picked up them all by now.

[@mercurythunder3927]

Hey there! We just came across your channel and WOW, so many glass floats! My husband and I wish we could find some, ourselves, unfortunately, we may never do that as we can't travel very far. How much do you sell them for, if, u do? We are in Texas.

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

You can check out my floats for sale at alaskaglassfloats.com

[@MissLoriAAnne]

I’m hoping you all are ok

[@jamesstfelix2408]

We left 100s of them on the beach last year.

[@dawnlindgron5570]

Where do you sell them all at ? My ex got mine ,I really would like to get one,my mom used to live in Alaska before it was a state!

[@msmegification]

Dawn Lindgron his website is. Alaskaglassfloats.com

[@goodday5570]

is that new land above sealevel

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

no It's just good old Alaska beach lines from years past.

[@animeswitch]

what are they used for?

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

They were used for flotation on foreign high seas drift nets years ago. They have since been replaced with plastic and Styrofoam floats.

[@louisemissouri4410]

What do you do with them?

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

I sell them on alaskaglassfloats.com

[@patrickallen5781]

What do you do with all of the floats?

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

Hi Patrick, I sell them on alaskaglassfloats.com Thanks for watching

[@eas3814]

que são essas bolas?

[@joekennon6567]

Do you sell those

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

I do have glass floats for sale. [e-mail]

[@Oak321]

Floats float for forever far from France...

[@tysonrowe596]

Thank you Paul for sharing

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

Your welcome. Beach combing is a Hoot.

[@loco5047]

Anyway

[@eronacalloway9159]

I wonder if the Size and Color of the Floats indicated Who the Fishing Net belonged to.

[@alaskaglassfloatscom]

Hi Erona The different sizes were used in different fisheries. As to colors, almost all the floats were made from recycled glass so color really didn't play into origin. There is a rumor that a limited number of red floats were made for the emperors fishing fleet but I've never been able to substantiate that and I've never found a red float.

[@jsusanlancaster]

What are you going to do with all those? Save some for the rest of us!🤗

[@georgegoertzen4723]

Too bad they don't use them anymore, as they are so much better for the environment then plastic.

[@gracemonroe488]

so much litter. they should pay for clean up