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starcrafttom

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27 Cruiser
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wn something
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Starcraft,

I watched a boat be demolished this way at a local boatyard. It was much older and in sad shape. I think it fit in a dumpster afterwords.
 
oh man, that's sad, I hate to think of the damge that salt water is going to do to the udercarriage of those fine looking cats
 
Here's a shot of a Hurricane Dolly victim on South Padre Island. Pix taken on our recent visit with Jim and Joan (Wild Blue)
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Brent
 
Once they had the equipment on the beach, I wonder why they didn't dig out enough sand to float the boat. Unless it was too damaged (probably the case).

But that seems a non environmentally friendly way of removing a boat.
 
I was looking at the first couple of photos and was thinking they were going to dig a trench and free her. then they start tearing in to her. very said for the owner unless a new boat is involed after the insurance.
 
Once the boat is in this condition it is full of sand and water--and most likely a total loss, even if the hull is not breached. I arrived in Cabo San Lucas only a few days after the infamous "Cabo Storm of 1982"--many well found cruising boats which were going on to the South Pacific went on the beach. A few were salvaged, but many looked OK, until you dug the sand out, and found a cracked hull, on the other side. Just not worth fixing--and this type of destruction is the cheapest way of disposing of the boat....

We still have boats sunk in 2004 littering our waterways along the Gulf Coast.
 
Thats one way to get-er done. Beats blowing er up like they tried with that Oregan whale a couple of years ago.eek.thumb.gif
A few more tides and they’d be puller it out with a dragline.
 
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