8 of 26 boats have been raised. They are being preserved for the lawsuits! Quite a bit of charred wood has been stirred-up. Not much fuel or oil has been released and we are still boomed-in. We are back to routine, but we have allot of salvage noise. It beats watching paint dry, but not by much. This is this dock builders first attempt at salvage and it shows. The Internet would have revealed to him the concept of a shear leg barge crane. His method makes retrieval quite difficult and further damages the wreckage. It is very sad. Silverware knives had their blades burn off and liquor bottles formed puddles of glass. A man's tool bag survived intact and we are considering building boats out of whatever it is made of! An aluminum boat on the edge of the fire survived very well, although the pilothouse interior burned. The exterior aluminum and paint was unharmed! We assume that flying embers set the interior afire. They say she has still been totaled. At least her gas fuel tanks never caught. She was adjacent to the fire line.
Last Wednesday I got to address Red Cross fund raisers to tell our story and thank the Red Cross for the work they did that night and the ensuing days. Don't forget to give to your LOCAL Red Cross - the national Red Cross does not share any money with the local chapters. Ron Rogers On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Kris Coward <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:03:39PM -0500, Ron Rogers wrote: > > OK Ben, > > > > I'm taking my 11 aircraft carriers and going out to play in the sun. I'll > go > > look at the remains of the boats sunk by the fire > > Speaking of the fire, how's the environmental remediation been going, > and how's your home doing in terms of feeling like home? (Are those > sunken boats at least hauled out into a yard where any remaining > leakiness can only serve to contaminate, well, marine yard) > > Cheers, > Kris >
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