"Graveyard of abandoned boats"

[mjcoon]

I just heard mention of an item with that tag line in the trailer for BBC News South tonight at 1830.

 

[fredrussell]

Round these parts (East Coast), that pretty much describes any boatyard by a river.

 

[burgundyben]

Corect, the wrecks on the Itchen by Northam Bridge are being cleared by ABP.

 

[Stemar]

I wonder how they'll know the difference between the genuinely abandoned and the ones where the inhabitants have just gone to the pub.

On a less flippant note, there have been a couple of small motorboats on the public pontoon at Hardway for several weeks. Yesterday there were some official-looking people wandering around, so they might be going soon.

 

[mjcoon]

I wonder how they'll know the difference between the genuinely abandoned and the ones where the inhabitants have just gone to the pub.

On a less flippant note, there have been a couple of small motorboats on the public pontoon at Hardway for several weeks. Yesterday there were some official-looking people wandering around, so they might be going soon.

I gather it is quite like abandoned cars. I reported a BMW that had stood in a spot on a local road that is not outside a dwelling for several weeks and it eventually acquired a notice of imminent disposal and later disappeared... Maybe not so much gone to the pub as to the rehab clinic?

 

[Metabarca]

That's nothing: in the suburbs of Buenos Aires you can come across cars that haven't moved since at least the 1950s... It would appear that no-one's responsible for removing them.

 

[Roberto]

There is one just upstream of where I keep my boat
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...e_Blavet,_Lanester,_Morbihan,_Bretagne_05.jpg

 

[mjcoon]

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There is one just upstream of where I keep my boat
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Cimetière_de_bateaux_de_Kerhervy_sur_le_Blavet,_Lanester,_Morbihan,_Bretagne_05.jpg

Are they as biodegradable as they look?

 

[Roberto]

Are they as biodegradable as they look?

IIRC they are mostly old tuna fishing wooden vessels, some might belong to the time when they were propelled by sails only, not very quick in disappearing.

 

[Iliade]

Where is Joshua Slocum when you need him?

 

[Birdseye]

That's nothing: in the suburbs of Buenos Aires you can come across cars that haven't moved since at least the 1950s... It would appear that no-one's responsible for removing them.

Old Ford Falcons? I remember them for a visit to BA.

 

[Frank Holden]

Old Ford Falcons? I remember them for a visit to BA.

Hopefully not the black ones that took you on a 'one way' to the Mechanics School.
Far side of the Rio de la Plata at Colonia there are lots like this and they are considered national treasures

 

[Frank Holden]

That's nothing: in the suburbs of Buenos Aires you can come across cars that haven't moved since at least the 1950s... It would appear that no-one's responsible for removing them.

It seems to be something in Spanish law. A number of of marinas I have been in on the west coast including the present one have derelicts that they say they can't just take to the dump because they still belong to someone.