The Zombie Fleet
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robtoujours
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Does the owner have an eyepatch by any chance?
The owner of the Formosa 51 moored in one of our local harbours is of similar age. Seems a lot more fit though, he recently spent some weeks in the Middle East working on some stage gig to replenish the refit kitty.
Pretty boats but at least I don’t have to worry about termites eating my mast.
The owner of the Formosa 51 moored in one of our local harbours is of similar age. Seems a lot more fit though, he recently spent some weeks in the Middle East working on some stage gig to replenish the refit kitty.
Pretty boats but at least I don’t have to worry about termites eating my mast.
On the plus side, the varnish doesn't need stripping.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Otherwise known as "The Captain Ron Boat".
Boats13
S/V Inevitable Liberty 458
Actually, Wanderer is on the other side of us. The last surviving boat of the three used in the movie. I got to help put the masts in/on and drop the engine in her last month! First time she had masts or engine in over 12 years.
It was the "pretty" version used in the pirate scenes... nice family bought her last year and is steadily making progress...
Boats13
S/V Inevitable Liberty 458
All four Formosa 51's on our pier have aluminum masts, now. One set was bought used, but all of the others were new extrusions... just wow...
pironiero
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what is this boat?looks kinda neat
Raincoast
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Noodling around the harbour in my inflatable kayak and I noticed that an ex-naval amphibious landing barge is moored here.
Truly, Ganges is an experience.
Jim in Halifax
Super Anarchist
World's biggest duck blind perhaps?
Takes me back to the old days working on the Exxon Valdez Cleanup in Prince William Sound. All remote area cleanup…. By the end of summer, some bays in the Sound we’re completely filled up with floating cities - barges of all sorts, mounting trailers, two story modular structures, prefab weird shite, about every form of remote camp structure you could build, mount or stack on a floating hull. No idea where all this stuff went when it was all over. But a site to behold. Housing and small boat water transport for 10 thousand workers, scattered across dozens of inlets and islands in the middle of the sound, a hundred sea miles in every direction from the nearest port. Many of the barges, like the picture above. Every barge and ship a mini marina or mother boat for a dozen or more small fishing craft and power boats moored every night alongside. Huge mosquito fleet on the water every day…. Wish I had kept my photos…
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Santanasailor
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Speaking of clean-ups. They had a whole HAZMAT crew working on this craft last fall. Must have gotten everything they were concerned about because as of this past week she is still sitting there, collecting barnacles.
Jim in Halifax
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I remember being on a job in Anchorage for a month in late 1990. All the locals I met in the bar after work were talking about what a bonanza the spill had been for the local economy. Even the fishermen said catches were better because the fishery had recovered a lot in the year it was shut. Plus all their fishing boats were chartered to support the clean up. Nobody had a bad word to say about Exxon. I wonder if there is any significant environmental damage that remains 30+ years later? Mother Nature is pretty good at cleaning up crude oil, which is actually a 'natural' substance unlike man-made 'forever chemicals', if she is given enough time. The whole disaster may actually have been a net gain for Alaska... (with apologies to any of you Greenpeace types here)
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Santanasailor
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Hard to see from the picture but we are talking about a 35-40 footer. Gonna take a tow truck the sized of a consist of diesel-electric locomotives.
There is actually an abandoned marine railway virtually within yards of this wreck. But I don’t think the tracks into the water still exist.
Seems Boggy Bayou is the graveyard of boats. Since our son has lived there, (2016)seen multiple boats sunk or wrecked. Even have pictures of barges pulling derelicts off of the bottom.
Leeroy Jenkins
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"spillionaires"
Diarmuid
Super Anarchist
In Alaska? State flower is 'derelict school bus in the back yard.' (Got a bit of that here in WY too. My shitbag neighbor has a yellow bus, "gonna fix it up and make it into a camper." Then he drags home a junk RV to park next to the junk bus. Neither will ever move until he goes full McCandless and the rock squirrels eat his body. I look forward to the day.)
Raincoast
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Decade plus waiting list for a slip in Burrard civic, but heaven forbid they evict something like Yalami or their neighbour here before it becomes a salvage liability. 🙄
Jim in Halifax
Super Anarchist
But if they're paying their slip fees...
Seems unlikely but I am always amazed at the amount of good money spent on bad boats.
TheDragon
Super Anarchist
One seemingly balanced view.
Wounded Wilderness: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 30 Years Later | Hakai Magazine
On the surface, Prince William Sound appears to have recovered. But you don’t have to dig too deep—into the soil or into memories—to find the spill’s lingering effects.
hakaimagazine.com
