This was always crazy to me ... abandoned boats! (Page 1/2)
82-T/A [At Work] APR 04, 08:02 PM
I used to see abandoned boats all the time when I lived in South Florida... not so much in Broward, but you'd see them in South Dade and also throughout the keys. I used to think it was totally wild... because I know how expensive boats are. My parents had one when I was a kid... and these things are not cheap. So to see boats like this just abandoned is totally wild. A few months ago (maybe a year ago), I went over to Kennedy Space Center and as I was driving back onto the main land, I saw a very large person vessel. It had to have been at least a 100+ foot boat. Probably had several bedrooms, and multiple floors. Not like a bimini and a first floor... but had like a main deck, an upper deck, and then a deck on top of that deck. I've got the picture somewhere, but for the life of me cannot find it right now.

Anyway, this is an old video, but still apparently relevant:




I was on Amelia Island last month, and still saw several abandoned boats hiding in the mangroves. Most of them still floating, but detached and marooned. All inboard power boats, or really expensive sail boats.
cvxjet APR 04, 10:21 PM
I have seen a lot of old boats abandoned in the Sacramento Delta....cruisers, a few houseboats, etc....back in 2015 I spotted a Glastron/Carlson CV-23 jet that had been stripped...One of the most beautiful (Fiberglass) boats ever made.....and back a couple of decades ago this was someone's pride & joy....



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maryjane APR 04, 10:36 PM
Someone(s) figured out they were really holes in the water to throw money down into.
williegoat APR 05, 12:14 AM
Elvis needs boats...

edit: I just found out Mojo Nixon died two months ago.

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maryjane APR 05, 03:13 AM
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a boat.
css9450 APR 05, 08:23 AM
Makes me wonder how many other abandoned boats ere there that we can't see any more, because they've already sunk.
maryjane APR 05, 10:14 AM
There are way more boats under the waves than on top of the waves, and that doesn't mean submarines.
82-T/A [At Work] APR 05, 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a boat.




Hah... oh man.

One thing I never got used to seeing... in the early days of living in South Florida, they didn't usually have "bulk pickup." Now, I can quite literally (and have) cut a car in half, and leave it out for bulk pickup, which they will happily take. They do this 12 times a year. It became something the county implemented as a result of the hurricanes, and it cut down on people dumping stuff (literally eliminated it), and they realized they saved money.

ANYWAY... I'm rambling, but what I was trying to get at is before they did this, I used to dump big items at the local landfill, and every time I did... I would see people literally having dropped off a boat. Like, they'd take their trailer, and then shove the boat off the trash cliff into the pile of trash. The big backhoes would then drove over it, crushing it into pieces. Just wild...

I mean, it's not like boats are immutable to getting junked. Even Rolls Royces end up in the junkyard at some point...

(a picture I took at the local junkyard several years ago)

Rolls Royce something or other...


Maserati Quattroporte...
williegoat APR 05, 12:19 PM
The drought over the last few years has exposed a lot of sunken boats at Lake Mead and solved a few murders.
RWDPLZ APR 05, 05:15 PM
Insurance scams? Set the boats afloat and report them stolen or sunk?