How about contacting a towing company and using their air bags under the bridge deck and float her out.
JohnB On 5/3/2012 8:43 AM, Densler, Vernon R (AS) wrote: > The marina owner is looking for other options so that we can make sure we do > the right thing. Anyone have any ideas? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JohnB > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: EXT :Re: [Liveaboard] Hull breach and about 2 feet of water in my > boat. > > Wow!!!!! > > JohnB > > On 5/2/2012 9:22 PM, Vernon Densler wrote: >> So not a good day at all. Got the 3" pump and managed to pump the hull out >> enough to see not only the last thing I expected but the last thing I wanted >> to see. There is a 4" concrete piling skewering my hull. I was able to >> slow the water down enough that the sump pump is keeping it almost empty. >> While we were working on the boat we felt a crunch. I thought it was >> shifting on the piling and it turns out that there is another piling now >> piercing the hull just in front of my board case. I was told the slip was >> shallow when the water was down but was not told that there was all kinds of >> debris with pointy ends sticking out of the mud. The piling in the back is >> in the inside of the port hull and the one in the middle towards the front >> is on the outside of the port hull. >> >> The marina owner finally showed up at 4:00 and we put a section of PVC drain >> pipe under it to try to keep it from going down much more. >> >> He is saying now that he is going to jack the port hull out of the water and >> build cradle to hold the hull so we can repair the holes. Then when the >> water comes up high enough to float her out without ripping the hull on the >> spikes we will get her out of there. Hopefully he does this soon so that I >> don't get any more damage. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Liveaboard mailing list >> [email protected] >> To adjust your membership settings over the web >> http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard >> To subscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ >> >> To search the archives >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> The Mailman Users Guide can be found here >> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
