51' Boat on Stuck on Seawall - Seriously?

Nothing a little glass work can't fix. What kind of boat is that? The emblem looks like the searay emblem but that doesn't look like a searay
 
My guess is that wall was not that far out of the water when they drifted over it. By the time news folks started photographing it the tide had gone out. Looks like a fair current going by the end of the wall. Wonder how much farther out the tide will go. Eventually you would think the boat would slide off the wall and back into the bay, unless the hull was damaged and holding the boat on the wall, in which case the owner might be lucky it stayed there.
 
For some reason the vid won't open, still the owner has got to be sick to his stomach. That's a gorgeous yacht. Hope he get her fixed and back to normal.
 
Seeing all of that pink fiberglass on the underside is heart-wrenching. Glad everybody is safe and unharmed.

The owner says the wall wasn't visible because it was high tide. Guess he wasn't familiar with the area.
 
Article says he was having engine problems, you can see the anchor rode is out. Sounds like he drifted over the seawall and with the tide going out, got stuck on it. End of the video shows the boat in the water and under power, but still, the damage makes you sick. It doesn't sound like the guy was just blowing along clueless to his whereabouts and hit the seawall.
 
I would think he should have been able to get his anchor out, and stopped the drifting before he hit the sea wall even with an engine failure, or even both engines down. I have never had to anchor without an engine, so it is just conjecture on my part. I often run that scenario in my mind...loss of power in the harbor, anchor out immediately. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation before?
 
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This came across my Facebook feed this morning. It's a shame. And loss of power or not you gotta think they cold have done something to keep from getting hung up on the wall. It's a shame.


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So, this is at the Oakland Estuary. The sea wall is under water at high tide but is marked. They must be new boaters or new to the area. It happens every year just about.
 
"The boat was experiencing engine problems when it started drifting in the middle of the harbor in Oakland, said Coast Guard officials."
Exactly as some have mentioned, why didn't he set his anchor if he was adrift....?
 
and if he has engine problem or engine failure why was he able to drive the boat to be hauled out. He even said is was embarrassing, I'm going with operator error.
 
This looks like it's not very far from where USS Enterprise went aground in the early 1980's while returning from a long deployment - talk about embarrassing! In her case she went out of the channel while dealing with an engineering casualty. But, even so the investigation found fault with her failure mitigate the problem, for example by dropping anchor.
 
We weren't there so it hard to judge what happened. Errors can be made. Don't judge to hard as it is all too easy make a mistake and end up in a bad spot even when you are carefull.
 
To follow up on my earlier post, has anyone ever had to drop an emergency anchor in an shore area after a major mechanical to prevent from running aground? I realize there are a lot of variables involved (type of anchor, rode composition, etc). I would think even with a very slow drift of 1 knot or less, the anchor would still grab, and save the day. Comments from anyone who has been there?

 
Billfletcher said:
To follow up on my earlier post, has anyone ever had to drop an emergency anchor in an shore area after a major mechanical to prevent from running aground? I realize there are a lot of variables involved (type of anchor, rode composition, etc). I would think even with a very slow drift of 1 knot or less, the anchor would still grab, and save the day. Comments from anyone who has been there?
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Yes it will still grab but take longer.

Also its usually a last resort, as in let me try one more time, which usually continues a few times.

Had this happen in my fathers new boat when we ran out of fuel - the gauge was only off by a bit (gauge showed 7/8 tank!) and dealer said it was full at delivery! We spent a few minutes diagnosing before we started drifting closer to shallows so we dropped anchor.
 
I've had to anchor in a hurry due to both engines dying on a newly purchased 32' Wellcraft (knew it needed a tune up and fresh fuel badly but figured it would make it home ok). Being in the shipping channel of the St Clair river in early April the water was very cold and freighters are unable to move out of your way or stop, so I headed toward shore and out of the shipping channel. No windlass on that boat and the anchor was a very complicated affair to release. My boys were unable to deploy it, so I made my way to the bow and finally released it, only to hear a "splat"! The water depth had become only about 2' deep by that time. There was enough of a current that it didn't take much to push the boat off the muddy bottom and float into deeper water once I nursed the engines back to life. Glad there wasn't a partially submerged steel seawall in the area!
 
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