[rallens]

Me and a friend went out and took a look at Distant Star yesterday. I found out about her when my boss told me about the craigslist ad.

I took pics but can’t post them because I'm new to the site. 10 posts before you can posts links? So bare with me if I make several non-posts so I can get the pics out to all who are interested. In the mean time she looks pretty damn bad. But I'm still tempted. Probably because I'm a complete novice and have no idea what a mess I would be getting myself in to. Not so much the recovery, but the rebuild.

Supposedly someone else is going out next weekend to take a shot at getting her out of the mud. The good news, for that person, is she actually isn't full of mud like many have suggested on here, she's just laying in it. I swam all around her and felt around both under and inside her (wear skiing gloves) and the mud inside is negligible. I wish the perspective salvor luck. But if he fails to get her out I may take a shot at her myself. I'm almost more interested in the challenge of floating her again than what to do with her afterward. If anything I only live about 20 minutes away from where she lies and would be willing to lend a hand to any potential salvors. Just shoot me a message.

I'll post the pics as soon as I hit the 10 post mark.