Hinckley runs aground in Boston

[Sailing My Cubicle]

Seems like the latest round of winter storms fouled this Hinckley in downtown Boston. On the way to the boat show maybe?

http://www.wcvb.com/news/40foot-yacht-blocks-traffic-in-downtown-boston/31215944

 

[Heynoose]

Definitely for the boat show although there is no reason why the driver needed to go that route. As the owner I would not be happy having my 1M boat sandblasted on the roadways around Boston.

 

[Walkabout08]

The M/V Maggie Mae is now a million dollar snow ornament. I watched the driver of the rig try and make a tight turn around a 12'high snow pile in the middle of downtown Boston, and when it was certain he wouldn't come close to clearing it he kept on going trying the use a 40' Picnic Boat as a snowplow! Then he got stuck, couldn't go forward or backward so in a moment of brilliance opened the tractor hood to make it look like he had mechanical problems.

 

[Murphness]

Walkabout, that narrative makes the photos so much better! Isn't there direct highway access to the convention center to avoid something like this happening?

Wonder if he just got lost. Maybe he just wanted to stop at Chipotle really badly?

Either way, that's a bummer for all involved.

 

[Sailing My Cubicle]

What I'm kind of confused about is how did the boat and driver end up at that intersection. It's a weird one on Summer St even without the snow. Guessing he came from 93N and maybe Kneeland to Atlantic wouldn't work? The haul road through southie wasn't open/plowed?

Walkabout, that narrative makes the photos so much better! Isn't there direct highway access to the convention center to avoid something like this happening?

Wonder if he just got lost. Maybe he just wanted to stop at Chipotle really badly?

Either way, that's a bummer for all involved.

Maybe he wanted to stop at Long's Jeweler for valentines day or hawk some stolen iphones in Downtown Crossing?

 

[billy backstay]

Come on guys; how many times have you seen a truck driver lost, or driving somewhere he should not be? Happens all the time!

EDIT: It's not like they get paid a living wage or anything.....

 

[Sailing My Cubicle]

If I was the owner, I'd be livid that my boat was in Downtown Crossing and not Beacon Hill.

 

[ribber]

It seemed like he missed the turn at the right-turn traffic island and then tried to make the turn anyway after it. Bad idea. It looked like a zoo, at every moment there were a dozen people taking cellphone pics of it.

 

[DA-WOODY]

it's the kool nhew app that gives alt routing to avoid shit like crosswalks or traffic lights

sadly having no concern for anything bigger than a Prius

same app alerts Photog's when you hang around a corner in same spot for > 5min

 

[Diarmuid]

Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymooooree.

You made a first class fool out of me;

Now I'm as fired as a fool can be;

You're stuck in snow, but I love you anyway.

 

[~HHN92~]

Rod Stewart is going to be pissed...

 

[Diarmuid]

Somebody clear away enuf snow to see if the cab has 'Big Dog Trucking' written on it....

 

[WoobaGooba]

Thats a wicked nice powah boat

 

[MoMP]

What I'm kind of confused about is how did the boat and driver end up at that intersection. It's a weird one on Summer St even without the snow. Guessing he came from 93N and maybe Kneeland to Atlantic wouldn't work? The haul road through southie wasn't open/plowed?

Walkabout, that narrative makes the photos so much better! Isn't there direct highway access to the convention center to avoid something like this happening?

Wonder if he just got lost. Maybe he just wanted to stop at Chipotle really badly?

Either way, that's a bummer for all involved.

Maybe he wanted to stop at Long's Jeweler for valentines day or hawk some stolen iphones in Downtown Crossing?

 

[MoMP]

Yes, I saw him on 128 S headed for 93S at 12:15 this afternoon. I'm beside myself trying to understand what all of those involved were thinking trying to execute this shit show.

 

[peragrin]

it was the one nice day in three weeks? we had better get the boats moving?

 

[Trendsetter]

Not a good week for Hinckley, first they loose a freshly re-powered 34 to a fire and then this... Wonder how that paint job is holding up to the snow bank he is dragging it along?

 

[sparau]

Thats a wicked nice powah boat

I thought the third building on the left has nice lines.

 

[MacGregor_Lover]

And we laughed!!