For a start you got to feel for the poor battler that owns it.....the idea of sinking is interesting, what about teh fuel onboard???...turned a little repair job into a big one......likely to turn up on e-bay...
For a start you got to feel for the poor battler that owns it.....the idea of sinking is interesting, what about teh fuel onboard???...turned a little repair job into a big one......likely to turn up on e-bay...
Looks like just a flesh wound to me......
No mechanic at all, but I sunk a 12foot tinnie with 6hp on the back not long ago. Took the motor for a service, and first thing the mechanic did was throw it back in a tank of water. His answer when I asked why, 'Rust wont form under water'
Maybe that would have something to do with the mechanicals, but I presume the downside is you could right off all the electricals if they hadnt already done so.
you think you would've worked out that the throttle/steering, etc wasn't working say when you were within 100m of the rocks...
I don't know about anyone else, but something suss perhaps here...
I suspect someone is putting a positive spin on a bit of a stuff up! I doubt that they deliberately sunk her, probably just couldn't keep ahead of the water pouring in and down she went. That said I think it was still a good call to get her off the wall, a couple of days of good size seas and she would be toast anyway, grinding on the rocks.
I wonder whether it was someone from the yard at the helm? Imagine having to make that call.....
Don't think there'd be too much to cry about if you could afford a 1.8mill boat in the first placeOriginally Posted by Spaniard_King
Boys! She's a 50 footer! Half a dozen prime movers and a kilometre of chain wouldn't move that sucker up the beach.
Get out a bull dozer would do it easy.
2 dozers, and a 1/2 kilometre of chain, drive those side by side and you can do some serious tree clearing.
Don't they have a heavy travel lift up there?
Kinda reminds me of the big boat that ended up at Kirabilli, on the rocks in Sydney harbour a whille ago.
They floated that off, and had a big barge at the ready.
No engine or electrical failure with that one though.
that'll buff right out !!
what a balls up. driving too fast for the unexpected ?
A couple of other things they were going FAST lost power no control at all!!!
they tried airbags to seal the holes but they moved and started to go down.
they had pumps trying to pump out water as they were moving it.
Just a point
The boat is pointing out from the harbour
He was doing that speed in a 6 knot zone, in an area frequented by lots of small boats
As I live in Mackay , just to clear up a few issues
1.) The vessel is outside the harbour and entering not leaving. Where she lies there is no speed restriction
2.) The is a heavy lift approx 300 metres further on and there is a beach approx 200 metres from where the boat is where it could be dragged up.
3.) The breakwater gets really nasty in anything over 10 knots of wind. This weekend it's nasty up here (I've been down in NSW and got back today) and blowing over 20 knots. Any boat left there in 20 knots would be gone in under 30 mins as the waves really stack up. I've been in recreational boats for over 25 years and this entrance scares the cr*p out of me.
However Mackay is a small town even more so on the boating side. I'll try find the "real deal" and let the group know.
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