You have to be a user there to see the pic....

 

Does the enclosed link in that forum post work?

 

Nope.

 

Wow!
Pics are below........

 

Forget the pic. Click on the link in the post. It works, and it ain't pretty...


Frank :smt009

 

Thanks!

 

I just threw up.

 

 

That's not the ugly part...


Frank

 

UGH!!!!! Won't let me copy and paste the others for some reason.....

 

Yes click on the boatersed link for the real tear jerkers.
Wasn't there any other way to save her!????
Why couldn't they have used the excavators to dig a channel and refloat it back out to sea. Looked like a clean boat too.

 

ugh

 

Ouch. The ******** link worked.

 

That may be worse than the Sundancer fire...

 

True... But at least it died in a BEAUTIFUL place!

 

Let's try this...

 

more...

 

Hard to believe that was the best solution...


Frank

 

Looked like a couple of vultures picking at a carcass.

 

Looks like a government job, to me.

Best regards,
Frank C

 

I saw those pictures a few days ago. Looks like a 2003 or 2004 based on how the Sea Ray emblems are mounted.

I also noticed they left the Glomex antenna... HA!

I don't think I could watch that if it was my boat. I could hardly look at it and it's NOT my boat.

 

Once again Caterpillar power gets the job done !:grin:

 

:smt043:smt043:smt043Frank always finding the good in the bad.

 

umm... yeah... let's see... What version of Cat engines where in the earlier 480 and what issues did they have? Something about the aftercoolers self destructing... I think there is some sort of class action law suit even going on.

I guess the excavators will be ok as the Cat engines don't need sea water cooling.

 

This has been floating around the internet for a few days. I am not buying it...I think it's a hoax, good photo editing.

First off why would you send 2 cranes to do the job 1 can do? Second, come on, this is unbelievable...you think the insurance company would allow this?. Tide comes up, boat goes out, on it's own or with a good tow....why crush it.

Photo 1, 2 dark lines close to the stern hanging down...photo 2, no lines....plus the canvas in gone in subsequent photos...come on, are you really going to take the canvas if they are going to crush your boat...probably not. Take a closer look at the series of photos..in some there are 'thing's' on the boat and in some there are not. From photo 1 to 2 all this stuff appears on the boat.....

 

I don't think it's a hoax. The story is documented on the forum we are not allowed to mention here with pictures from other people that were there. The guy apparently hit some coral trying to go into Devil's Backbone down in the bahamas (top of the Eleuthera Island chain). When I was researching going to that area, the protocol was to call in for a local pilot to come drive your boat in (or follow them) because it was so tricky and it costs like $75. The story was it was this guy's first time in and he didn't want to pay the $75.

Do a google on "devils backbone pilot bahamas" and you can see a few writings/videos on it.

 

I don't think it's a hoax. The story is documented on the forum we are not allowed to mention here with pictures from other people that were there. The guy apparently hit some coral trying to go into Devil's Backbone down in the bahamas (top of the Eleuthera Island chain). When I was researching going to that area, the protocol was to call in for a local pilot to come drive your boat in (or follow them) because it was so tricky and it costs like $75. The story was it was this guy's first time in and he didn't want to pay the $75.

Do a google on "devils backbone pilot bahamas" and you can see a few writings/videos on it.

I wanna say some of the folks that did a recent trip to the bahamas saw this boat or a boat similar, I remember reading on here that they figured the guy hit the coral was taking on water and to save the boat he beached it, but by the looks of these pictures they decided to scrap it.

Search the Bimini threads I'm sure there is a picture of a boat beached there.


EDIT:

HAHA I found it http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10329
Look at the picture look familar? 7/7/2008 the post was.

 

The idiot tried to run the devils backbone without a pilot and no local knowledge, The outcome was predictable.

 

Hmm... No precautions being taken in regards to fuel or oil spillage? No mess on the beach? No oil slick? What did they do with all of that fuel?