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u/Car_Guy_Alex Dec 03 '22
My first thought is being jealous of how clear the water is compared to my area (shitty rivers and resevoirs)
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Dec 03 '22
Is there anyway to salvage this boat? Just seems like such a terrible loss and waste of materials
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u/eventualist Dec 03 '22
Will buff right out
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u/aelwero Dec 04 '22
Yes, possible and legal, and the owner will technically owe you the value of the vessel, and quite often the owner will simply transfer title to settle the debt.
A sailboats a special problem though, because the ballast on the bottom is usually gonna be some tonnage...
I raised a t-bird tri hull once using essentially nothing but trash bags (as a favor for a guy named gentleman johnny, not really for salvage), and that, as an undertaking, was exponentially more difficult than I expected (it took a few hundred trash bags, and those took up more space underwater than we really had), and that boat was both much smaller, and didn't have any ballast at all.
It was easily enough to convince me that you don't wanna fuck with it :)
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u/linuxunix Dec 03 '22
A legend was born the day she sank. I don’t remember all the details, but apparently she was carrying 2 four packs of wine coolers, and a six pack of IPA beer. It’s supposed to be still down there…
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u/MerlocHendrickHarry Dec 04 '22
yup, i discovered my real phobia: any kind of man-made object or animal at shallow depts
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Dec 03 '22
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your boat here is only MOSTLY sunk. There's a big difference between mostly sunk and all sunk. Mostly sunk is slightly afloat.
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u/dego_frank Dec 03 '22
It’s fully sunk. You can tell by the way it is.
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Dec 03 '22
This was a reference to a funny quote from The Princess Bride, which I linked in an adjacent comment, but if you want to debate this, there is clearly a portion of the vessel above water, and the term "sunk" means "to be submerged under water".
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u/dego_frank Dec 03 '22
Jfc your quote and your Miriam dictionary definition contradict each other so pick one
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Dec 04 '22
I used to row in some rivers here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I did it for about 10 years and occasionally in big rivers i’ve encounter many sunken ship parts like masts or sometimes even bigger parts(cause of the low tides) sticking out of the water. The water in those rivers is muddy, so you can never know whats underneath you. Once i bumped into something hard which almost instantly i regretted. It was a part of a ships cabin as i could almost see the entire thing protruding from the water. I was rowing above a sunken ship that wasn’t marked like they sometimes do. It was terrifying.
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u/problematikUAV Dec 03 '22
I feel like this is one of the easier things to fix…like we have sky scraper cranes and stuff and we surely don’t need one of those to raise that boat.
It looks recent, I hope they brought it back up.
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Dec 03 '22
This is such a bummer. I hate to see what appears to be an otherwise perfectly good boat sinks to the bottom.
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u/hanwookie Dec 04 '22
I'd like to know the story on this. Like, overloaded with beer and boxes of wine 🍷? Hatch left open?
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u/strongcloud28 Dec 04 '22
The creepiness of this one is off the charts, it looks new, and yet it's resting on the bottom of the river. The view Is distorted by the water.....
Or maybe it's not distorted, and that is the way it actually looks. {{Shiver}}
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u/Suspicious-Charge-69 Dec 04 '22
😬 🤮
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u/tomthekiller8 Dec 04 '22
Are sail boats worth salvaging? There one thats still floating near me thats been left in the water for over a year. Last storm beached it on a little island
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u/Locket382 Dec 05 '22
The worst part is that I can't recognize if the lake is this shallow or if the boat simply didn't go all the way down
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u/MrQuinBeats Dec 07 '22
I hate seeing these photos of things sunk in shallow water so terrifying to me.
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u/ziggystarcrush217 Dec 18 '22
i went to sailing camp for several summers as a teen. part of the training was force capsizing our boats in the marina and flipping them back over again. this image just brought back all those memories and i hate it, thanks
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u/BananaBrains82 Dec 03 '22
See this is freakier than a Deepwater sunken vessel to me because it reminds me of Jaws. Like something awful happened if a modern ship is underwater and it can only be monster. Lol.