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Hi all it's with deepest sympathy i advise you all my lovely boat sank this morning in rough weather any ideas on the simplest and best way to re float her would be appreciated.
or any help appreciated im a 1st year newbie and it's been hard (any tears yet) only mine yes i know. i feel like ive had a death in the family i didnt realise i could feel this way i feel so stup[id for lovingher
HELP !!!
 
My sincerest sympathies on your boat - hopefully you are OK.

1st step: get in touch with your insurance company, as they will be able to advise how to proceed, and should take over running the show.

Andy
 
sorry the insurance has told me as i hadnt made the first payment im on my own?
great egh??stupid more like i should have had that sorted first instead of all the nicks and nacks.
 
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sorry the insurance has told me as i hadnt made the first payment im on my own?
great egh??stupid more like i should have had that sorted first instead of all the nicks and nacks.

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Ooh Err! In which case, I can't add anything to the advice you're getting over on MoBo....

Andy
 
I suppose the first question is - how deep is it at your mooring, and at low tide..
Second is - how long has she been down.

Divers attaching lifting airbags are the easiest way, but getting her to the surface could be easy - from there you need to empty her of water - lifting her full of water could damage the hull - and then get her to shore where you can recover and then start the real work ....
 
at the mooring she's in just over 10 feet of water
and at low water about 7 or 8 i think she's only been down from this mornign whats the longest it should be down for before it's lost basically.?
cheers john
 
Happened to a boat on a mooring near me last winter.

Divers with airbags got her awash. Then she was towed to drying piles and secured and as the tide fell she was pumped out. When she refloated she was towed to a travel hoist and lifted ashore.

Recently heard an old buffer talking about recovering his Solent Sunbeam which sank during a windy race. I think she'd been underwater for about a week before they found her and refloated her. They managed to pump her out from awash before towing her off for restoration.

Sympathy, BTW!
 
Find your nearest diving club, get in gtouch with their diving officer and ask if they will treat it as an exercise, at worst a small sum to cover their costs should suffice or would have done in my day when my old club did similar things.
 
Deepest sympathy about this.

If it was me I'd...

Contact the local divers. Find out more, get help online (done already).

How big is the boat? Size and deadweight?

My DIY solution? At LW springs, you could perhaps snorkel down and recover the engine first and maybe the electrical stuff, like the GPS. You can then take time with the hull. Repeat this with the rope strops and oil drums. Get the boat awash, and tow towards hard shore at HW. Next LW, shorten strops and repeat till boat sits dry at LW. Maybe a couple of tides. Pump out, clean and float it on the trailer for home. If you can borrow a mate's boat, a lot of rope and some drums, you would be in business.
 
Talk to local mooring company.
I have succesfully sorted engines that have been underwater for a week or so.
Advise about divers or dive club is good, if they can put strops around hull, then a mooring barge will lift to surface.
The trouble is this is usually an insurance job, so not cheap.
A bigger mobo or fishing boat may be able to do the lifting with anchor windlass or by tidal lift. Its a case of who to ask locally. You need to accept its a days work for two blokes with a good boat, so won't be a few pints I'm afraid!
Hope it gets sorted!
 
My understanding is that a few days or so under water won't make a great deal of difference from 10 minutes.....but that as soon as you get her drained out yer need to work on the Engine and mechanicals - cos' once in the fresh air and covered with / full of salt water things will really start to corrode......exactly what you need to be flsuhing out / dismantling I will leave to others......who actually know /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
thanks for all the advise i am attempting to restore it back on sat i will keep you posted
are you allowed to post pictures on here if how ?
cheers again john
 
To post a pic, park a jpeg of the pic somewhere on the internet. Photobucket.com is very good for this.

Then copy the image address and paste it into your message between two tags. The first is
 
Thanks again to all who put folward input of one kind or another , i have decided to use the fellow who done my mooring he is a good decent guy and he is using his divers that does his moorings so im paying here goes £100 for the divers for the day and £200 for the guys mooring work boat "he usually charges £350 so i am really happy with this price so far no doubt getting the engine looked at tested will be another couple of hundred i think and whatever else needs done luckily im a spark so i can re wire myself and save a bit of cash the lesson here is INSURANCE does pay. i was 4 days too late. but i lived and ive learned no one was hurt only my pride .
thanks again everyone for the words of support i didnt realise i would have felt so bad but i did and now ive got to get on with it.
i ask myself should i keep it or not?
i believe it was the gator on the stern drive that initally let the water in and then bad weather finished it off. if i find out how to post a picture on here i will .
regards to everyone
cheers john.
 
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