Anyone know what happened?
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I saw that, eeek...curious what happened too. Nice looking boat above the water.

Dang! My only guess is launching w/o the drain plug. Pretty boat.

well at least it had a good bath  :P sorry I had to.  nice boat.

I heard it was for sale, tied to the dock awaiting an out of town prospect to test run it.

We recovered this last Thursday. Owner had a buyer, who just had it surveyed earlier in that week, and the reason it was in the water. Not quite sure how it sank yet, but possibly some screw holes in the rub rail on the transom leaked in.

So what happens to the boat now?

the price goes down  ;)

Dam shame. It looks like a nice boat.

Insurance company will figure out why it sunk. Wonder what recommendations the surveyor made.

I know of a 28 Cigarette that was purchased while sunk at its dock. It ended up being a great boat.

I've heard the rub rail can be a troublesome area on those 32's since they sit so low. I was planning on removing my rub rail and sealing up any voids. This just motivated me a bit more.

There is more to it then that. With two batteries two auto bilge pumps it should have never gone down. It would take a big leak some rain and a week to kill two good batteries. Plus if it was leaking that bad it should have been noticed. Who leaves their boat in the water without inspecting the bilge for water?

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Who leaves their boat in the water without inspecting the bilge for water?

I think that's a leading question.

A buddy of mine had a cooling hose pop loose. His bilge filled up pretty quick and the bilge pump never did turn on. Luckily, he had a lift in his slip and it was close by.

I wonder if he will trade for a pontoon now?  ;D

What typically happens to a boat after recovery? Does the ins co take possession and store it somewhere?
Seems like if someone took the whole boat (and engs) apart immediately after recovery, most of it could be saved assuming it was a brief submersion in fresh water.

Don't know what happened here but, they should have had the engines running that day. Followed by removing drives draining water from bellows and greasing everything. All the electric motors need the water drained from them. All the reservoirs need waters removed. The entire interior needs to be dis assembled and dried. If the batteries switches were off most electronics on engine will survive. If they were on many will be toast.

The key is to attend to it immediately. If it sat for even a day the damage multiplies. AFTER A WEEK JUST TAKE IT TO THE GRINDER.

In most recovery processes, we float them, and ask the customer if they have a preference on what repair facility the boat goes to. If they are not sure we offer up several options for them. We do not touch the motors due to liability, so we immediately take it to repair shop where they pickle the motors.

Insurance companies are all different, but in most cases an adjuster or surveyor will come to the repair shop and decide if it is totaled or repairable. If totaled they take possession of the boat and either auction it off or scrap it.

In this case it was sold pretty quick to a local contact I had here. So this boat will be back in action on Lake Travis!!

I have many sunk boat stories. One that comes to mind after the 28 Cig I previously mentioned is.

A had met a friend at a race site to drive his boat. We met at the drivers meeting. He had rushed to launch the boat and met me their. While we were sitting there a guy came in and asked . " Whose boat is Hauling Glass? It is sinking in the slip!" Needless to say we rushed out. The rescue crew from the event met us at the boat. It was hanging by the lines and the water was up to the base of the carbs. It had tunnel rams and the entire rest of the engines were under. We quickly pumped it out. Drained the water of the bottom of the oil pans, drained the water off the bottom of the trannies and started it up. We did not turn it off because it might not have cranked a second time with the starters full of water. We raced the race and won our class. He returned home and completed the necessary service and raced the remaining season without indecent.

He had left the strainer plugs out.

My first flipping a boat experience happened when I was 15. I had taking my brothers 7.5 of his jon boat and mounted it on a Cyrus Gardens trick jump boat. Cool little boat kind of a flat bottom tunnel built to go over ski jumps. It would also jump up on to a floating dock to do a "cool " finish. ". Well I tried and failed the cool part and flipped it over backwards on to myself. Man I immediately thought I was toast. I was going to get in so much trouble. AN old man coached me to drain the carbs, clear the water form the engine and make it run. It took about 15 minutes. seemed much longer cause I was s hitting bricks. In the end I cleaned it up . Put it back on the proper boat and ran it home. Never got caught. Good thing. It would have hurt. It was Ok to take a belt to your kids back then.

Most recent race boat submersion story happened in Key West 4 or 5 years ago. My buddy bounced his 100 plus mph canopied twin outboard cat on it lid ripped the cowlings and hatches off. It also ripped off some cables and fuel line from one of the engines. Both ingested a little water. He got towed in. I spectator retrieved his hatches and cowlings before the sunk. Again. we cleared the engines of water, fixed the damaged parts that got ripped off and made it run. The next day we repaired the hatches, mounted them, serviced the engines like normal between races and tested the boat mid after noon. He raced it the following day. He did not win but did complete the race.

Lunch break is over I am getting back to work.

awesome stories Jim!!!!!

What exactly does pickle'ing an eng entail?

None of you wise asses better say dill :)

dang it you there goes my next post.  Evan had to ruin it  ;D 8-)

JC wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 9:02pm:

What exactly does pickle'ing an eng entail?

Pickleing is what you do when you are waiting to decide what to do. Basically you drain the water of the bottom and fill with kerosene or diesel fuel to the top of the valve covers; down the intake and everything until it comes out the plug holes.. Topped off by dueshing the outside with crc.

Thx for the explanation. Hope I never have to do it, but that little tidbit would come in handy if I ever do.