[Jasonfishing]

Are there a lot of hurricane damaged sailboats stacking up on the market there?
I've checked craigslist and Facebook and it's astonishing how few damaged boats I'm seeing.
Compared to like when other places outside the us such as when the Bahamas got hit and they had thousands of boats for sale.
And I doubt anywhere in the world had more boats per square mile than where hurricane Ian hit.

 

[terrybuda]

Are there a lot of hurricane damaged sailboats stacking up on the market there?
I've checked craigslist and Facebook and it's astonishing how few damaged boats I'm seeing.
Compared to like when other 0laces outside the us such as when the Bahamas got hit and they had thousands of boats for sale.
And I doubt anywhere in the world had more boats per square mile than where hurricane Ian hit.

I just spoke with a friend who had a 50+ foot boat in Ft. Meyers. His boat was sunk next to the dock. The salvage crew pulled it up, put it on a barge, and ran it through a giant crushing machine before he could even go look at it. The machine rapidly eats anything and everything, so there is no opportunity to pull parts off. The insurance company paid the fair market value of the boat, but he's fighting to get something for his lost personal property and valuable upgrades - Battle Borne battery solar system, electronics, custom sails, etc.

The relief can't possibly balance out with the tragedy. Florida is in a contest to both clean up a mess and do the right thing with assets. Some boats are making it through to the resale/auction yards if you know where to look. For example https://www.cooperss.com/assets?name=marine&id=1

 

[Jasonfishing]

I think the whole ordeal was mishandled.and so far down the rabbit hole no one wants to look.🧐🏴‍☠️⚔

 

[eherlihy]

I am in Ft Myers. Most of the boats that are salvageable have been brought to Pine Island. I believe that many will be auctioned. Others, too damaged, sunk, or too far into the mangroves, have been cut up and hauled away (some by helicopter).

 

[terrybuda]

I am in Ft Myers. Most of the boats that are salvageable have been brought to Pine Island. I believe that many will be auctioned. Others, too damaged, sunk, or too far into the mangroves, have been cut up and hauled away (some by helicopter).

@eherlihy Thank you very much for this update! Praying for you all to have better times soon.

 

[OntarioTheLake]

I think the whole ordeal was mishandled.and so far down the rabbit hole no one wants to look.🧐🏴‍☠️⚔

What's to mismanage? No serious hurricanes for a long time, people built homes on the waterfront, seemed OK for what we knew of construction techniques and effects of hurricanes in the 1970s. Newer homes had new standards, as did roads and other infrastructure. A dead hit did what it will, and what it did. Cleanup started immediately, as did putting in temporary bridges. The "crisis" part is over, and now it will be a decade of cleanup.

I just read a report from a broker that visited Ft. Myers, he said still some boats washed up in yards and elsewhere, blue tarps on roofs, whole condos and hotels standing empty, windowless.

 

[Jasonfishing]

Naa all you have to do is follow YouTube videos...or the lack of.youll smell conspiracy..or pretend not to.🧐⚔🏴‍☠️

 

[OntarioTheLake]

Naa all you have to do is follow YouTube videos...or the lack of.youll smell conspiracy..or pretend not to.🧐⚔🏴‍☠️

You think the hurricane did it on purpose? Fire and brimstone, end of the world, will of God type stuff? I'd not considered that. Or was it the salvage brokers, who needed something to do after the Carib got cleaned up?

 

[Jasonfishing]

I'm not worried about it either way...why should i. same ol same far back as I remember.🧐⚔🏴‍☠️

 

[capta]

Buying any boat that has been damaged by a hurricane can be a very risky proposition. I've seen those boats go through a good survey, yet in a year or two they end up with huge repair bills for something that didn't show up at the time of sale. Furthermore, all electrics aboard must be replaced, which means removing much of the interior to run wiring.
In St.T my partner and I would buy one or two low to mid value boats (like an Irwin 37) a season and renew them. But as a marina employee I was on the docks and could find the least damaged boats and purchase them from the insurance companies very quickly. Most of these boats had not hit anything, often only sunk by rainwater. We would raise them in a day or two after the storm and keep them in the slips all summer, so we had no overhead to speak of. We'd have them ready for fall, price them to sell, and they would get snapped up pretty quickly.