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Re: Beached sailboat
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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03/28/2024 10:56 AM
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That's a shame, for people in that area. The same is true, even more, for those in Beacon Hill, where that rusty bucket of nails boat has been, for what, two years or more?
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Re: Beached sailboat
[Re: Zanshin]
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03/28/2024 01:31 PM
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Zanshin--so what is the answer here, if you know, for this situation, and the one in Beacon Hill?
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Re: Beached sailboat
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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03/28/2024 04:45 PM
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The local nominally owns the boat, despite just having a verbal contract with the previous owner, so would be liable for the cost of removing the boat. But he's a local, and since he's not answering any queries, I'm sure he's lawyered up and will contest the verbal contract. The original owner is gone. So, the government will need to locate him, prove in court that he is the actual owner, and then extract the money or have to pay the salvage costs itself. The first is unlikely to happen. The Beacon Hill wreck is owned by a company which then went bankrupt so there's no money there. The owners are still quite affluent and evidently did not bother with the costs incurred by having insurance.
I think that the 10K$ cost is for marine salvage. The wreck is on the beach close to excellent road access for a truck and crane so I would think that it might be done for less (if a private person were paying, if the government is paying the estimates will of course be much higher)
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Re: Beached sailboat
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03/28/2024 05:32 PM
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With regard to the Beacon Hill wreck, is there any resolution to get that out of the way??
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Re: Beached sailboat
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03/29/2024 06:30 AM
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"Now, according to salvage companies, the cost to remove it will be around $10,000." Are they kidding with that number?? For that price, no one will want to "tow" it away!! At this point, there is nothing of any value to resell!! I can see, this is going to be another "D'Boat" cluttering up Simpson bay beach!!
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Re: Beached sailboat
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04/01/2024 07:27 AM
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Took this one in January....
We watched them "prepping"/loading that boat several years ago, before they draged it out into Simpson Bay. It was in the lagoon, directly opposite Dinghy Dock Sailors Bar (Airport Rd), and debris was blowing all over with no regard to what was going in the water or anywhere else. It was a $hit-show then and it is even worse now. Pretty sad that nobody seems responsible.
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