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Yellow 10' Kayak Lost on Columbia 5/28 - $1 (multnomah county)
Yellow 10' Kayak Lost on Columbia 5/28 - $1 (multnomah county) multnomah county
I got swamped and turned upside down May 29th, Friday, around 6:30 pm. I got sucked under one of the floating docks along the Washington side of the Columbia. The last I saw of my kayak, it still had an orange lifesaver vest and a blue folding chair bungied over the compartment lids and was floating downstream, up side down. In the rear compartment is a gray JanSport day pack and an original army blanket. Someone contacted the Coast Guard  about the drifting kayak and also mentioned the daypack in the rear compartment. I was in the water for about 40 minutes, fighting the current, trying to get up on that dock. I eventually found a way up, but it took so long! I started out from Wintler Park on the Vancouver side of the river and was headed back there when the incident happened. For people who were at Wintler Park a lot, I was the older guy with the \