My neighbour has sunk

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A sad end for what was a very smart boat - A Formula with a couple of Merc 250's on the back.
It was only relaunched recently after having major engine works.
When I was looking at it up on the hard, I did think that the stern had an incredibly low freeboard, but I guess if you are leaking, then having a higher freeboard just prolongs the inevitable.
Galant efforts were made to keep the boat afloat, but these were ultimately unsuccessful.
Flower Power was moved out of the way by the marina staff, so no contact or damage that I can see.

Recovering it will be an interesting task, given that there are 600kg of engines embedded in the mud

 

[andy59]

Blimey , thats a sad sight . Hope they can recover it without to much damage but I'm guessing it will be a right off because of the salt water in everything

 

[Mr Googler]

Horrid sight and feel for the owner.

Be an interesting insurance claim with lots of work recently done.

My old boat, a carver Allegra 25 sunk a few months ago. Hadn’t moved in a few years and looked a state. I was gutted as it was mint when I sold it. Turned out it had been hitting the marina wall and made a hole under the rubbing strake around the integral bathing platform. Rain water filled it up and pushed it just low enough to submerge the hole. That was that.

 

[simonfraser]

Sad sight
Another good reason for keeping an eye on your bilge ...

 

[maby]

A sad sight, indeed!

I've been watching one of our neighbours with interest - I've never seen anyone visit the boat and the bilge pump is running continuously - the rate of flow out of the boat is much like a tap well open. I pointed it out to the marina who tell me that they have notified the owner and he/she seems in no rush to come and do anything about it. If that pump fails, or the shore power is cut, then I would assume that it would be under water within a day or two.

 

[RobBradley]

Feel really sad looking at those pics, thoughts go to the owner, how sad.

 

[prv]

I've been watching one of our neighbours with interest - I've never seen anyone visit the boat and the bilge pump is running continuously - the rate of flow out of the boat is much like a tap well open. I pointed it out to the marina who tell me that they have notified the owner and he/she seems in no rush to come and do anything about it. If that pump fails, or the shore power is cut, then I would assume that it would be under water within a day or two.

I once chartered a boat in similar state on the French canals. The (South African) agent's advice was "yeah, well, if it does sink, fetch all the beer out of the fridge up onto the roof, get up there yourselves, then give us a ring. It'll only sink to halfway up the windows."

The single bilge pump was running on about a 30% duty cycle all week, to the great amusement of a small boy watching us in one of the locks - "Le bateau pisse! Le bateau pisse!"

Pete

 

[Assassin]

They can air bag it and get it upright easily enough, the problem is the water damage.

 

[MapisM]

Galant efforts were made to keep the boat afloat, but these were ultimately unsuccessful.

Do you mean that someone noticed the problem, they had some time to do something before she sunk, but they couldn't keep up with the water ingress?
If so, I'm wondering what sort of accident could have popped out of the blue in a moored boat, that neither the internal pump(s) nor someone with (I suppose) additional external pumps could cope with...
But if for any reason you/your neighbor don't want to disclose the details, no worries, I understand of course.

A very sad sight indeed regardless of the reasons, anyway.
Good to hear that FP wasn't affected, but commiserations to your neighbor are in order!

 

[Seastoke]

Would it be a good idea placed around marinas mains sump pumps with plug on and 10 m of hose

 

[simonfraser]

Would it be a good idea placed around marinas mains sump pumps with plug on and 10 m of hose

health and safety, thieves, numpties list is endless, cant see it happening

 

[NormanB]

Well it is asking for trouble not draining the Marina each night.

 

[petem]

Would it be a good idea placed around marinas mains sump pumps with plug on and 10 m of hose

Our marina say they have a pump capable of pumping ton of water every two minutes should it be required (plus a fire extinguisher capable of covering a 12m boat with foam in three minutes)!