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Free giant keel boat. Needs cosmetics.

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Explored this wreck yesterday.
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There were a lot a salvageable parts, but all much too big for my little girl!

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Oh yea. For Highlander: check out these beautifully made solar panel adjustable brackets.
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Kind of hard to look at. Could you tell what sunk her?
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Always makes you wonder about the story.

A friend of mine ran his boat up on a reef in the Bahamas at night. Buddy on watch didn't zoom in on chartplotter to see the reef ahead.

He called the Coast Guard to rescue them and he left (abandoned) the boat intact on the reef. He snapped some photos from the CG heli on the way out.

Easy salvage in my opinion.

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Duct tape and buffing? :P
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Jimmyt wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 4:48 am Kind of hard to look at. Could you tell what sunk her?
Neglect. I’d say.
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Russ wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 6:08 am Always makes you wonder about the story.

A friend of mine ran his boat up on a reef in the Bahamas at night. Buddy on watch didn't zoom in on chartplotter to see the reef ahead.

He called the Coast Guard to rescue them and he left (abandoned) the boat intact on the reef. He snapped some photos from the CG heli on the way out.

Easy salvage in my opinion.

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Heh left the sails up and everything. The only chance with something like that would be to attach the best halyard to the biggest anchor and and drop it off in deep water and maybe you could get her off on the next tide. But it would have to be the next one. Depending on how much you loved the boat and how stable the weather was, you could also scuttle her to keep her from pounding and come back with a salvage boat.
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Ixneigh wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 9:25 pm Heh left the sails up and everything. The only chance with something like that would be to attach the best halyard to the biggest anchor and and drop it off in deep water and maybe you could get her off on the next tide. But it would have to be the next one. Depending on how much you loved the boat and how stable the weather was, you could also scuttle her to keep her from pounding and come back with a salvage boat.
He said he left the sails up so others could see the danger to navigation.

The guy just finished a year of cruising the Caribbean and was selling the boat. I guess he found the insurance claim easier than salvage and then selling it. He left all kinds of fun bits onboard that scavangers could grab.
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Russ wrote: Wed May 11, 2022 6:08 am
Ixneigh wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 9:25 pm Heh left the sails up and everything. The only chance with something like that would be to attach the best halyard to the biggest anchor and and drop it off in deep water and maybe you could get her off on the next tide. But it would have to be the next one. Depending on how much you loved the boat and how stable the weather was, you could also scuttle her to keep her from pounding and come back with a salvage boat.
He said he left the sails up so others could see the danger to navigation.

The guy just finished a year of cruising the Caribbean and was selling the boat. I guess he found the insurance claim easier than salvage and then selling it. He left all kinds of fun bits onboard that scavangers could grab.
Heartbreaking... :cry:
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