07-31-2009
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Belliure 41'
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 136
Rep Power: 6
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Lets be honest here, chances are the boat is trash. She is laying in a salty, muddy and hot pool of water. She is semi submerged and sinking quickly. She may or may not have been struck by other boats and she has already been invaded by scavengers. The bottom paint is failing or has failed, the standing rigging is failing and has, in some places, failed. Winches are missing, hatches are missing, she has no engine or sails or any other salvageable systems. If I were to render a guess the hull is covered with marine growth and blisters, the interior has hundreds if not thousands of pounds of mud and other crap stuck to it, the keel bolts are rusting, the mast/rigging is compromised, the gelcoat is shot, the rudder is bent, the running rigging is gone and she looks like something Poseidon threw-up!
Honestly, she would be a great project for a father and son, or a grandfather and grandson but not for someone who does not have 3 years to put into a complete restoration. In the end the cost of the materials to rebuild her will far surpass the cost of the same boat in good condition from Yacht World but it will always be a salvage boat. Good luck and best wishes to anyone who would undertake a project like this. Personally I would advise anyone contemplating this undertaking to just invite all of his or her friend over, get naked in front of all of them in a cold shower, put on a blindfold and attempt to complete a rubix cube while one of his or her friends beats them over the head with a winch handle and another burns and flushes $100’s…it would be the same as rebuilding this boat.
The sad part is all of this could have been prevented with a little forward thinking, a bit more maturity and the ability to ask for help when the last owner was over his head. I’m not saying he is completely to blame, weather and wind had something to do with it but his lack of urgency and inability to focus on the catastrophic events at hand have left a gorgeous boat at the bottom of a swamp. Lets burry her with a little dignity and remember her as she was before this tragedy unfolded.
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“Greatness Is Not In Where We Stand, But In What Direction We Are Moving. We Must Sail Sometimes With The Wind And Sometimes Against It – But Sail We Must, And Not Drift, Nor Lie At Anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Last edited by JT1019; 07-31-2009 at 11:19 AM.
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