very sad. sunken hatteras

[Pascal]

If they don't get it off by Monday, there won't be much to remove if mattthew follows the forecast...

 

[Glory]

I have two thoughts,

1) on day one, or even two the boat was salvageable, yes a large project , but salvageable.But nothing happened.

2) was a total loss the plan? BWI could be a good cover?

 

[Cricket]

The Enviros are going to go nut job over this.

 

[polarizer]

Since he or the bank has been paid the insurance company is now the owner of the boat. Doesn't matter if they made an agreement with the owner that it was his responsibility for removal. The Town of Palm Beach is incredibly tough on the residents about EVERYTHING, can't believe they haven't been more proactive getting the boat removed.

You need to get down there more often. The back bay behind the inlet off Blue Heron looks like a boat graveyard.
Even over towards Riveria Beach, there are sunken sailboats that have been there forever.

 

[jim rosenthal]

I haven't done any boating in Fl for years, but even decades ago I was surprised by the number of derelict boats off the ICW. And ramshackle liveaboards, too. I gather they haven't been able to clean them up?

 

[krush]

All the tax money is spent on protecting the manatees and studying frogs and birds.

 

[Pascal]

Here in coconut grove / miami there is a large anchorage full of derelicts outside the marinas, mostly sailboats. Every year or so the county or state, not sure, sends a barge with a crane to lift the half dozen recently sunken derelicts and crush them in dumpsters...

 

[pizzazsdaddy]

An update to the story. A couple of weeks ago, local channel 25 reported the Hatteras on Palm Beach had been hauled away. (The reporter went to the wrong location). This morning, it was reported that a salvage crew hired by the town of Palm Beach was now racing to try and remove the boat before Hurricane Matthew gets close. My apologies for the earlier misinformation.

 

[Cricket]

From the PB Daily News 10/03/2016
In the morning, the Resolve Marine Group had removed most of the innards to the boat and dragged them to shore. Throughout the afternoon, they worked to shimmy giant balloons under the boat to provide lift. Once lifted, a wench between the boat and the shore dragged the twin-engine motor craft closer to the beach, where they plan to chop it up and haul it off in dumpsters.

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/grounded-yacht-slowly-moving-off-palm-beach/nsj6Z/

Everyone really screwed this one up, especially the governments. The Town of Palm Beach is so worried about a can that gets into the trash or a sprinkler that runs 5 minutes past the cutoff time yet they can't figure out how to get this boat off the beach when it would have been easy to do.

 

[jim rosenthal]

I would like to meet this wench. I have some heavy lifting to do around my house.

 

[Pascal]

"Last year, 40 boats were grounded throughout Florida, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife. The data ranks Palm Beach County as the sixth-most dangerous county in the state for boating accidents, with Miami-Dade county ranking first."

Amazing how bad the less has gotten... 40 boats grounded in Florida !!! Seriously... Then their using the words balloons instead of lift bags... PAhtetic.. I guess journalists are so busy making sure Hellary gets elected they don't have time to write decent stories.

That boat was done the minute she rolled over anyway...

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Not a pretty sight. Hope they save some of the good parts. Many of us here could put them to good use.

 

[madhatter1]

If they had put bottom paint in the port side she would be in much better shape right now.

 

[Miss Lisa]

From the PB Daily News 10/03/2016
In the morning, the Resolve Marine Group had removed most of the innards to the boat and dragged them to shore. Throughout the afternoon, they worked to shimmy giant balloons under the boat to provide lift. Once lifted, a wench between the boat and the shore dragged the twin-engine motor craft closer to the beach, where they plan to chop it up and haul it off in dumpsters.

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/grounded-yacht-slowly-moving-off-palm-beach/nsj6Z/

Everyone really screwed this one up, especially the governments. The Town of Palm Beach is so worried about a can that gets into the trash or a sprinkler that runs 5 minutes past the cutoff time yet they can't figure out how to get this boat off the beach when it would have been easy to do.

Cricket,

What procedure would you use to move the boat off of the beach?

 

[kelpy]

The only thing left to do now is to start cutting the boat up. As it gets lighter, they will pull it higher up the beach with a crawler. Cut the tops off of the tanks off and remove fuel. Lift out the machinery and truck it off. Keep pulling it higher up the beach and keep cutting. It will be gone quickly.

 

[krush]

Large excavator with good reach could make toothpicks of it fast.

I'd like to have the rub rail.

 

[Cricket]

The boat could have been towed off the beach pretty easily in the first few days. Instead the idiots removed the fuel which was the ballast keeping it upright, without the weight in the bottom it tipped over onto it's port side the level of difficulty skyrocketed, now it's full of sand. Cutting it up on the beach will impact the environment far more than what it should have. This will end up looking like something from India or Bangladesh where they pull the ships onto the beach cutting them up as they go.

 

[kelpy]

They( owner, insurance, city ) were forced to remove all fuel and lube oil first thing. That is always the case.
A crawler, an excavator and a couple of guys with chain saws will make that boat go away in the better part of a day. There will be no traces left if they know their stuff.

 

[Cricket]

From Tuesday 10/04 5:45p

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/n...k-overnight-in-hopes-of-moving-beached/nskbC/

To try and beat the impending hurricane, Resolve Marine Group has brought in additional workers and will be working overtime to salvage the 72-foot yacht that was grounded just south of the Palm Beach Inlet roughly a month ago.

“They’re going to be working overnight,” Coastal Coordinator Rob Weber said today. “They’ve got another crew coming.”

 

[RonNP]

That is a sad photo of a once very beautiful Hatteras. What a dumb ass owner.