Close call for my tiny Hatt

[Jackman]

Got down to the marina last weekend to pay my slip rent....as it was due...and found a couple of fellow captains talking in the vicinity of my boat. Unusual since I have not been down in a while and the weather was such that there were no trips returning with tuna. Anyhow, quickly found out that the boat in the slip next to mine an old 30 some foot gasser that has been "ignored" for years had burnt up from what looks like an electrical fire. She's been unvisited for what I can say must be years as the owner is suprisingly 3yrs behind in payment for his annual lease. (Must know someone to still have a boat in the marina).

Apparently it started around 9pm on Sat PM and gutted the entire inside before it was put out. A local fireman was at the scene and used a hose to put it out and only busted out one window before the fire department arrived and decided to break all the rest of the windows and flood it out. It did not sink and there really was not much damage to the outside of the boat.....and most importantly no visual damage to mine. I will go over it with a fine toothed comb before I dismiss possible damage completely. I think most of the heat came out of the stbd side of the other boat so I think I'm okay for the most part.

Glad she made it through this one. Bit scary after all the work that I've done to her so far.

Just cannot beliueve it did not explode, being gas. Also...kinda fishy that it sat there for 3 yrs without a problem and suddenly has a problem....(not my place to judge I guess...although very fishy.) Maybe thats why I have been having zinc issues over the past three years? Bad electric.

 

[saltshaker]

Wow sounds like you got real lucky. Not surprised by the fire from a neglected boat. Could have been a number or ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. Three years is a long time for one to sit in the water unattended to. Was it plugged in? Can't believe the marina never took action. In the past the yard would put a lien on it and take the boat. Now they don't want most of them due to their negative value.

 

[Bob Bradley]

Wow sounds like you got real lucky. Not surprised by the fire from a neglected boat. Could have been a number or ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. Three years is a long time for one to sit in the water unattended to. Was it plugged in? Can't believe the marina never took action. In the past the yard would put a lien on it and take the boat. Now they don't want most of them due to their negative value.

Try finding a marina that will take an older woodie. When I sold my Chris 8 years ago, it took the new owner a full year to find a marina. And that boat was in great shape and loaded with modern technology, not an old rot bucket.

 

[Robby]

Wow sounds like you got real lucky. Not surprised by the fire from a neglected boat. Could have been a number or ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. Three years is a long time for one to sit in the water unattended to. Was it plugged in? Can't believe the marina never took action. In the past the yard would put a lien on it and take the boat. Now they don't want most of them due to their negative value.

We have a "Rough Water 30. Something"Sitting in the slip next to us at Demoplois and The whole B dock is complaing to get it moved.It actully smells at times.Hard to look at.

 

[Jackman]

Now that gave me an idea for a good topic for a thread....Maybe someone should start it...

"We have a "Rough Water 30. Something"Sitting in the slip next to us at Demoplois and The whole B dock is complaing to get it moved.It actully smells at times.Hard to look at. "

Get people to post pictures of the nastiess, smelliest, most dangerous to your boat boats in your marina.. Wonder what we'd come up with?