uh oh, day after launch

wowzer52 · Post by **wowzer52** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:48 am

I have been in that position with a boat that belonged to a relative. Several of us relatives used the boat all the time. One morning we got the call, the boat was going down at the marina. Several phone calls later we all met at the boat, under water, still hanging by the dock lines. We dove to add more lines and snatch blocks. we used two 3" pumps and lots of arm power to get it to the surface enough for the pumps to start taking affect. We raised the boat, towed it to the boat ramp and put it on a trailer to work on it. After about a week, new gland nut packing and lots of cleaning, drying and pickling, we put it back in the water and went sturgeon fishing. We never figured out who was responsible for the lack of maintainance but we all worked together and the boat was fine because we caught it right away. However this boat came to a sad ending anyway. When Mt. St Helens blew in 1980 the ash filled the marina where it was moored. When I went to check on the boat a couple of days after the Mt blew all the boats in the marina were on dry land/ash half buried. A few of the newer boats were dug out and salvaged but most were lost, including our boat.

rooferdave · Post by **rooferdave** » Tue May 03, 2011 10:55 pm

prowlersfish wrote:Dave , Why do all the sailboats in the water have no masts ? the ones on land do .

the boats in the water are from our club and were all launched with a crane the day before, and as such have to dock and then as time permits go to the mast crane to get set up, this takes a few days.

The boats you see "on the hard" are from the club next door which have no docking facilities, only boats on trailers which must be under 28' I believe are allowed in this club, so the masts are never taken off these boats as they are trailered into the lake as needed and not craned.