Wreck raised.
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Poignard
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Something that I have often wondered:
Who pays for this sort of work? Is any effort made to recover the cost from the owners or is it assumed they are straw men and don't have the means to pay?
Who pays for this sort of work? Is any effort made to recover the cost from the owners or is it assumed they are straw men and don't have the means to pay?
oldgit
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the salvors have requested that if anyone knows the owners or their location would they please get in touch.
Peel ports did ask us to check our pontoon security cameras but all out of shot.
It is not unknown for a local boat yard fed up with non payment of rent or getting fed up with a beyond its sinkdate eyesore, to sneakly tow out an offending heap in the middle of the night and dump boat on bouy or pier.
ROBMH
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Shame they only did half a job and just dumped it against the wall Strood side where it has broken up and caused an even more of a hazard
oldgit
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It started to collapse when they lifted it, somebody was towing bits back to the wreckage a few days ago, a fair chunk, looked like the roof.
Rumour was it came from local yard after being evicted.
pavlosimou
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There are still some sizable chunks of what I presume to be parts of this boat going up and down with the tide, Allington was barely navigable yesterday Have never seen it so bad, bank to bank and so many potential prop mashers to try and avoid, anyone know where the lesser spotted peel ports crap collector is in hiding?
thamesS23
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is the sunken boat still in the river just upstream of Abingdon lock still?
Nauti Fox
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Just had a largish bit of what looks like part of a boat go bobbing past us on it's way up river, going quicker than Ballerina does...
LittleSister
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In theory, in statutory harbours and navigations the cost can be recovered from the vessel's owner (hence the usual requirement in marinas and harbours for insurance cover), but in practice, especially for abandoned vessels like this, it is a long process with little likelihood of success. Therefore the cost typically ends up falling on the harbour/navigation authority, and ultimately its users and/or the public.
In the meantime, the authority is in a no-win situation: it will be criticised if it expends administrative and legal costs pursuing a claim that adds to the recovery/disposal costs but doesn't ultimately succeed in recovering them, or it will be criticised if it doesn't seek to recover the costs because it doubts it will succeed.
Also galling is that often the harbour or navigation authority in question is prevented from taking immediate action to remove sunken vessels causing an obstruction, as they are typically obliged to serve notice on the vessel's owner and give them the opportunity to rectify the situation themselves, even if the harbour authority have no expectation that they would do so.