Sunk at Shotley

[ianc1200]

A friend who works at Shotley told me the cost to the marina for lifting clear - it's a lot. They've had 6 or 7 of them dumped there by the RNLI & the owners haven't paid/haven't got insurance. Shotley have told the RNLI not to bring these boats to the marina in future.
There's also the Elysian 34' which on the East Coast Pilot FB group this week had broken free in the Mersea area which the owner now has posted photo's of it being wrecked. Very sad, somebody's lost their home, but who pays to have the wreck removed?
At Titchmarsh about 4 weeks ago a large - 70' ish - a white rusty looking Dutch sailing barge turned up, was told not to bring into the marina, nevertheless did so hitting Chris Titchmarsh's restored Girl Pat motorsailer twice, had to be towed out of the marina, and after about two weeks of anchoring then disappeared.
In Foundry Reach in the Backwaters, a Thames Swim lighter, with a mobile home on top, has moored itself next to the sea wall two weeks ago just by the concrete barge which lays at an angle. It had to have been towed there.
Does seem a lot of strange boats on the move on the EC at present.

 

[Paulfireblade]

It looks rather like a Waarship, made of ply, so although good boats in their way not as resistant to penetration as most other materials.

It has been mentioned to me the “stern rope was still attached to the cleat from the boat with a foot square of plywood which had been pulled out of the boat.”

So boat tied securely to pontoon but once stern broke free it is not surprising bow suffered such damage. The toe rail above the hole looks fairly rotten.

So probably not dumped on purpose but presumably an inexperienced sailor in an unseaworthy boat.

 

[PeterWright]

It has been mentioned to me the “stern rope was still attached to the cleat from the boat with a foot square of plywood which had been pulled out of the boat.”

So boat tied securely to pontoon but once stern broke free it is not surprising bow suffered such damage. The toe rail above the hole looks fairly rotten.

So probably not dumped on purpose but presumably an inexperienced sailor in an unseaworthy boat.

Wasn't she "dumped" there by the RNLI?

 

[Paulfireblade]

Wasn't she "dumped" there by the RNLI?

Depends on your definition of Dumped.

Not sure I would want to use the Oxford dictionary definition to describe the actions of the RNLI who had taken the effort to tow it there.

 

[DanTribe]

It looks rather like a Waarship, made of ply, so although good boats in their way not as resistant to penetration as most other materials.

Possibly a Waarschip although I don't recall seeing a double chine version.
She reminds me of a Colin Fagetter Goosander, perhaps a stretched one.
Anyway, a tragedy for someone's dreams.

 

[johnalison]

Possibly a Waarschip although I don't recall seeing a double chine version.
She reminds me of a Colin Fagetter Goosander, perhaps a stretched one.
Anyway, a tragedy for someone's dreams.

We made friends with a Dutch Waarship in the ‘90s which I remember as double-chined, and this seems to be confirmed by some of the pictures of them I have just searched for.

 

[DanTribe]

We made friends with a Dutch Waarship in the ‘90s which I remember as double-chined, and this seems to be confirmed by some of the pictures of them I have just searched for.

You're right, of course. I was thinking of the overapping plank construction giving an almost clinker effect. Lovely looking boats.
But none of this helps the poor victims plight. I hope he is OK.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Waarschip was "four plank" which does look a bit like spaced out clinker. Got very familiar with a lot of them in a lock in Holland.... They just seemed to pile in and wedge themselves (and us) in. Just as well as we hadn't managed to tie up!

 

[PeterWright]

Depends on your definition of Dumped.

Not sure I would want to use the Oxford dictionary definition to describe the actions of the RNLI who had taken the effort to tow it there.

I used the word dumped as a quote from your previous post, that's why I put that word in quotes. I certainly had no intention of doubting the good service performed by the RNLI but rather was questioning your use of dumped for an action they had performed in good faith. In future I'll try to bre less subtle and more clear in my posts, if I remember....

Peter.

 

[ianc1200]

Essex: London couple homeless after houseboat wrecked in storm

River cruiser (ex hire boat?) at West Mersea wrecked. Fortunately their insurance covers the cost of removal of the wreck, but couple have lost their home.

 

[johnalison]

Essex: London couple homeless after houseboat wrecked in storm

River cruiser (ex hire boat?) at West Mersea wrecked. Fortunately their insurance covers the cost of removal of the wreck, but couple have lost their home.

That looks unfortunate, but nobody gets ‘caught out’ in a storm these days unless they have failed to take reasonable precautions. I would guess that they were simply unused to the ways of the sea.

 

[Pye_End]

I hope that this problem does not put off the RNLI towing boats to safety. If, say, a single hander has to be taken off, the RNLI are not to know if a craft is insured or not, or even if the casualty will be in a position to return, in the worst of circumstances. If a solution is not forthcoming, the RNLI will have no option but to leave the vessels where they find them.