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I thought it might be neat to start a thread on projects you have seen that by simple neglect have become embarrasing messes for their anonymous owners.
Just post a pic and a short message:
This guy loves the land so much.. grass cockpit mats, anyone??
Living inland and sailing on lakes, some folks just have not adapted well. The old practice of careening to allow time for hull repairs is practiced here, but the tide is on an annual basis thanks to TVA.
It's nice to see people putting their heart and soul into totally screwing up a perfectly good boat. The caulk bead is a perfect example of this man's fine crapsmanship.
Not nearly as dramatic as some of the others, but this was our boat when we bought it:
Notice the name VooDoo, which looked a lot like DooDoo from a distance. Now we live in a very small town where everyone knows everyone, so if we had launched the boat like that, our boat would have been known as DooDoo for good. Needless to say we made a change before our first launch.
Have to drag the camera out. Off the top of my head I can think of 4 boats to photograph. Not abandoned but clearly unloved. Some been in a marina pen over 4 yrs and never been touched yet their owners still pay the pen fee's right on time.
This thread is so sad it hurts ... and I would love to get a boat.
There is a nearby lake - heck, several, within 90 miles of me - with similar stories. One dock comes to mind, I think well over half the boats were left when the owners couldn't pay for the slips.
Yep, every single one in a pen, paying between $2k and over $3k a yr.. some have never been out for yrs.. I've been at that Marina over 12 months now and with the exception of the steel motor launch never I've seen anyone go near the boats. The motor launch went out once (thought he was taking it somewhere to die lol) but came back a few hrs later.
The yacht with the grass in the cockpit is in the pen next to me,it's always had the hatchway open so anybodies guess what it's like inside.
The high mountain lakes we sail on require all boats to be removed from their marinas every season. I've always thought it would be nice to be in a year around marina......I'm kinda rethinking, there are some definite advantages.
Yeah we got it easy here, I doubt I could cope with having to anti-freeze the engine every winter, worry about frozen sea cocks and the like.
We can sail all year round if we want.
Sad to see, looks like the owner put some effort into keeping them off the boat.
One of the things I found so frustrating when I lived out there is that you were pretty much expected to sit back and take it.
In situations like that though, I think the best option is to get rid of the lifelines and anything else that could be damaged so they have easy on/off access.
Of course, the -best- option would be to make the preservation groups responsible for damages, but that is extremely unlikely.
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