C-Brat makes the news

I'm shocked. I've travelled the metro Detroit area for years and have never seen an abandoned / derelict boat. I've seen the remnants of 100 year old shipwrecks and unused boats in docks and drydock. I thought you had The Beachcombers over there. Where's Nick and Relic when you need them. Maybe, around here we steal them too fast or scrap them for cash along with the stolen copper pipes and AC units from the local churches.
 
Come on down to the Gulf Coast--we have many abandoned vessels, some of which are in navigable waters--mostly left from hurricanes 4 to 6 years ago.
 
I understand there are more and more in the California Delta, due to them being abandoned by their owners, who no longer want to make payments, or pay marina rent, taxes, and upkeep on older vessels that have lost so much of their value that they can't be sold to new owners. They just take 'em out and scuttle them, after removing identification plaques and numbers, to get out of the cash drain cycle. :cry:

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Nice article, and great photos. I just had the privilege or riding through some of that area with Dave on SeaShift, and we saw some pretty interesting boats, some that obviously had been abandoned and some that were being worked on, improved, restored and beautified. There were some really sad looking vessels there too, and Dave has been keeping his eye on them for a while.

On another note :note , looks like Dave finally put enough water on SeaShift that it grew :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: congrats on the new 27 Dave :mrgreen: Enjoy.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
hardee":jx3f9l50 said:
Nice article, and great photos. On another note :note , looks like Dave finally put enough water on SeaShift that it grew :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: congrats on the new 27 Dave :mrgreen: Enjoy.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
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Ha, I didn't realize until I clicked on the pictures in the "on-line" article that there were more pictures posted there. I hadn't seen the picture of me at the helm of my now noble 27 Foot C-Dory "Sea Shift".
That picture with the text is a bit of advertisement for C-Dory. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Interestingly, in the "on-line" article I'm from Marysville, but in the actual newspaper article, I'm correctly from Arlington.

I feel the writer, Noah Haglund did a great job researching for addiitional information about the derelict vessels to include with the article he wrote. Additionally, Mark Mulligan, the photographer captured the essence of the vessels we saw and that Noah wrote about.
 
DaveS said:

"Ha, I didn't realize until I clicked on the pictures in the "on-line" article that there were more pictures posted there. I hadn't seen the picture of me at the helm of my now noble 27 Foot C-Dory "Sea Shift". "
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Hey Dave, You are always cool my friend. You did a fine one there.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Dave Safford, in his 27-foot C-Dory, the Sea Shift, cruises south down the mouth of the Snohomish River earlier this month.
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Dave if your going to borrow the boat at least put gas in it!!
 
starcrafttom":2n173ntx said:
Dave if your going to borrow the boat at least put gas in it!!
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Tom, I did!.....didn't you see the empty can of chili and beans on the stove?...... :rose2 ......... :mrgreen:
 
Tom you might want to open the windows in the 27. :lol:
 
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