Giblets
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Have they got a diver down? The guy in the blue jackets seems to be tending the unbilical.
Gaff schooner sunk in Brixham
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trevbouy
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Yep I asked the owner to put the camera on it. Some large air bags going down now.
trevbouy
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What gets me is they are fitting airbags and inflating them and all the time the tide is lowering. Low tide is around 3pm. Maybe that's what they are aiming for.
Mark-1
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Yeah why wouldn't they - let the tide do the lifting. I recovered a sunk flying 15 that way.
Mark-1
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If they used helium instead of air the whole thing might drift through the skies into the area of another local authority.... ?
trevbouy
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Yep that's what you would think but first thing this morning they dropped airbags down then inflated them. then actually had a go lifting with the HIAB. Very ambitious of them, don't know what they thought would happen.
I've seen 8 airbags in total now, at least 4 large bags down there.
I've seen 8 airbags in total now, at least 4 large bags down there.
JumbleDuck
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At one time Basic Boat Insurance - who are, as far as I know, quite reputable - didn't ask for any boat details at all when selling their third party insurance, so a certificate from them could be used, theoretically, for multiple boats in multiple places.
JumbleDuck
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Ah, happy memories. The outer basic at Bowling was always particularly good for wreck watching until they cleared the east end fr the canal re-opening. The west end still has a few, but all in a very advanced stage of picturesque decay. The Leven at Dumbarton was also a good place to spot 'em.
Mostly gone, as you say, but there are still a few around. There was one on a visitor mooring at Millport for ages and Lochgoilhead had half a dozen or so last summer.
Your post has also prompted me to try to find out what became of the Arctic Penguin. According to this, she became HMY Britain, which seems highly implausible. Inveraray Pier has been a disgrace for years, but it seems a community buy-out is being attempted, and good luck to them. The amounts involved would be small change to Argyll and Bute Council if they weren't a bunch of factional, in-fighting incompetents.
Mark-1
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Is that true? I'd have thought maintaining and managing a pier would be an open ended liability.
Mark-1
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My BB certificate for this year has the boat name and type (or reg num if there is one) but someone willing to pull a fast one could obvs easily fake or doctor an insurance certificate.
Gary Fox
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I don't know what the lifting capacity of the airbags is, but for them to be manageable individually, it can't be much more than 5tonnes, five cubic metres, each? With that size, they would 10+.
trevbouy
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I'm no expert although I have done some airbag lifting, I don't get what they are doing. It's a falling tide, the airbags are inflated on tight lines and the forward mast has risen approx 9 inches. Now to me it seems the diver will have to deflate the bags and go round tightening the lines to achieve a lift on the rising tide unless they only want it just off the bottom.
dom
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Trev, you're next career is in commentating on Cricket, Rugby, The America's Cup, etc!
Why not set up a field studio there, go out and interview the protagonists, and then discuss their respective efforts later?
And do a Paxman on the Harbourmaster!
chrishscorp
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Yes you would have thought a few more would be good on different strops spread along the hull or you could strain the hull and it come up in bits.
I guess the plan will be to float her to one of the slips so she can be broken up at low tide ?
trevbouy
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I'll get me coat
Gary Fox
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Please continue commentating, the eyes of the world are upon you!I'll get me coat
andy59
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https://www.seatang-guesthouse.com/live-brixham-webcam/ Here is a link if you have nothing better to do
trevbouy
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As if the Harbour Master hasn't got enough. A fishing boat has sunk in Paignton harbour now, I say sunk but more like settled on bottom as it's fully exposed just now at low tide.
Fimacca
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The brixham sailing club did have a webcam !
JumbleDuck
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The appeal for purchase a restoration of Inverary Pier is for £100k. That's 0.04% of the Argyll and Bute Council annual budget. Mind you, that's the council which spent £85k on new handrails for Helensburgh pier but didn't actually make it usable by ships.