What to do with a boat that won't sell

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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kids with sledge hammers....what could go wrong?
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    There's so much more room for activities

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  • aero3113aero3113 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    LoL!
    2008 330EC
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  • Michael TMichael T Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    We used to have old car brought to high school near the end of the school year. For $5 the kids could take 5 swings with a sledge, proceeds to charity- could you imagine trying that now?
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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,068 mod
    Kids With Sledge Hammers.  Now I've found the name of my next band.
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  • aero3113aero3113 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    There are company’s all across the country that allow you to smash things, I just googled and this is one in NYC. Maybe we’ll have our daughters first birthday there! LoL

    https://www.ragecagenyc.com/
    2008 330EC
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They bash cars with sledge hammers before Nashville predators games.  Hockey in the south doesnt need to make sense.  Know your customer base.
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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well on the Columbia you could sign it over to some homeless person and they'll love on the river. Occasionally you see a boat with some signs on it saying this is their right and blah blah blah. Meanwhile they are dumping trash and sewage in the river. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some peeps in inda put their poop, pee, trash and their dead in a river that they believe has magical healing/spiritual powers.  They also drink from, get food from, do laundry in and bathe in this river yet you never hear about dysentery or other of the diseases you'd think you'd hear from with millions eating, drinking and pooping all in the same spot. 


    Sometimes i wish my toilets were glacier fed.  

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  • rasburyrasbury Posts: 8,952 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like where covid came from...
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those were bats in China although there are reports it was a virus or several viruses tied to labs from the U.S. and Australia which have been altered. 


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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,068 mod
    edited June 2020
    Great example of a boat that is ready for the shredder.  Best guess, she's a 1989 Formula 29 PC.  The engines haven't been started in 25 years.  Her last time afloat was in 2003, when the flood tide from Hurricane Isabelle temporarily floated her a few inches off the bunks of her lift. 

    In 1989, she was a beautiful, fast boat.  Now she's home to birds, raccoons and other unspeakable horrors.  She serves no purpose other than blocking the water view of the $2M home next to her.  It's sad to think that she had a useful life of only 6-7 years.  

    Shred!


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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not my photo but I have floated by this a few times. Not sure how something like this gets abandoned. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny you bring him up. I just saw this listing and I almost sent to him for his next project. 

    https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1991/sunseeker-renegade-60-3242069/
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They would have to pay me to take that boat
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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,068 mod
    But the engines are in such perfect condition!

    Shred.
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  • rasburyrasbury Posts: 8,952 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And diesel!
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Im glad we all agree diesel is better😂
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  • TonyG13TonyG13 Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020


    This ghost ship has been sitting in the Port of Chicago since 1982. At the beginning of the year they announced it would finally be moved and cut up for scrap. Haven't been past it since Covid started, so it'll be interesting to see if it actually "disappears" next time I drive by.

    Here's the backstory if anyone is interested...https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/ghost-ship-to-finally-be-removed-from-port-of-chicago/article_0bf07cfd-5834-595b-b603-eae5e039b476.html
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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,068 mod
    Want to fritter away a few moments of time?  Go on youtube and look up ship breaking.  Man that is some dirty and dangerous work.  
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The story doesn't say why they call it a ghost ship, has a well documented past which kind of takes the ghost out of the story.  

     It was a very interesting history, just wasn't ghostly.

    Ghostly imho is like that sailboat they found floating in the ocean, the single handed captain died while sailing and the salt air mummified his body in the cabin.  


    Any insight to the ghost part of it?    

    There are some really good youtube videos of abandon boats but this isn't one I've seen before so please more details.

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  • TonyG13TonyG13 Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭✭
    @PickleRick - You are absolutely correct that it isn't a ghost ship in the true sense of the word. That thing has been there for almost 40 years and the current owner is now going to remove and scrap it and get a cool $1M for the scrap metal.

    My big question: Has anybody been paying dock fees for the last 40 years - and/or if they haven't why wasn't a maritime lien put on it and then sold off for scrap by the Port which could use the $1M for past fees?
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
    Still a very interesting story, ghostly or not.

    He's ghosting on his slip payment


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  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭
    I guess in MD you just leave them on the side of the road. This was on Rt 97 just outside of Annapolis this week.
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If i had trailers id get both.  Outdrives look good for parts if nothing else.  
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  • J3ffJ3ff Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are those bravo 3's?? I need one please!
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Posts: 7,936 mod
    yeah, rode past that this morning.  The larger one was there last week, now the little showed up over the weekend.  Not sure what is with that.  I'll see if another one gets added as the week goes! :)  I'm actually surprised they'd leave them there so long.  I thought about stopping to look for parts.

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,068 mod
    What, just because somebody parks their boat in public, you guys are ready to start looting? :D 
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  • Lake_BumLake_Bum Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
    I had a 21" Stingray boat that was a BLAST to drive.  Even though that thing only had a 4.3 V6 in it, it would hit the mid 50's.  I can't imagine that hull with a big block in it B)


    2000 Captiva 232 
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