You might remember reading about this floating dock that washed upon an Oregon beach toward the end of May. It had made the trip across the Pacific Ocean from Japan, where it had been torn loose from its moorings by the terrible tsunami of March 11, 2011.
You might also remember about these floating barges that without sails or oars made a similar journey within a few years of the confounding of tongues at the tower of Babel. Whether they came across the Pacific or the Atlantic oceans is still unknown, but the trip of the floating dock shows it certainly is possible for such a voyage to be undertaken. In the Jaredites case it took 344 days (Ether 3:11) to make the trip, while the dock took a little over a year.
Another interesting thing (to me anyway) is that the Jaredite boats were built to the length of a tree and the dock is 66 feet long and about 18 feet wide, which I imagine was fairly close to being the same size.*
*Pure conjecture on my part. Speculation, even. I"m thinking 100 ft. max for the Jaredites, but then we don't know what kind of trees they used in the construction of their boats.
For an interesting take on the Jaredite voyage and ocean currents of the Pacific, go to this site and see their take it.
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