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ALWAYS make sure your bilge pump is connected properly before leaving your boat over night with rain forecast.

Bummer.

whats a bilge pump ?

bilge pump

n : a pump to remove bilgewater

barch97 wrote:ALWAYS make sure your bilge pump is connected properly before leaving your boat over night with rain forecast.

Is that your boat?

uh huh...

and much to my surprise and delight, very little damage was done. the dock lines were tight enough to keep the motor from getting too deep under the water and wasn't under any significant pressure. so, everything that was sealed/water tight stayed that way. and the dock is far enough up stream that the water isn't too salty to begin with. that combined with all the rain that 'caused it to sink in the first place, made clean up pretty easy. it did take some muscle to turn it back up right and balance while I pumped the water out and I was able to find one of the seat cushions that floated away. one of the fine folks in another slip towed me around to the ramp and I pulled it up on the trailer and towed it home. opened up the motor and rinsed it all out with clean fresh water and then soaked it with crc. drained the carburetors and replaced the fuel filter. now it's running even smoother than before the sinking.

Damn, you got lucky! How did you get it to flip back upright? Do you have anymore pics?

Steve

I got in the water and lifted from one side while my wife stood on the dock and pulled from the other. we were able to turn it up right and then I stood up on the bow and used the flotation in the hull to lever the stern up until transom was above water. then turned on a BIG pump I borrowed from the marina. once the water got down to deck level, I rigged up the bilge pump through a battery charger plugged into ac power at the dock. whole thing took less than an hour.

I've got a few more pics that I took for insurance claim before I pumped it out but no pics of the actual recovery. I'll put 'em up after lunch.

Ok, so you were able to stand in the water. That makes more sense! I was thinking to myself, HTF can you pull it upright from the dock!

yeah, the slip is only about waist deep at the front but drops off pretty steeply.

Turns out I haven't got the other pics here. so, you'll have to wait until I get home to upload them.

No biggie. I'm always fascinated by sunken boats, trucks etc. A guy that's works for us in our Fargo office lost his Silverado on the boat ramp over the weekend. I guess he had the boat off and was trying to go up the ramp but the ramp was covered in algea or something and he couldn't go, even in 4wd and the truck slid back down the ramp and in the water. I guess the tow truck guy had to dive down to hook onto it and said the truck was in park with the brake set. I'm not sure how it could slid that bad but who knows!

some more sad photos...









That's teh boy barch in the last pic. Reading me the sign "No boats allowed under water".

barch97 wrote:...That's teh boy barch in the last pic. Reading me the sign "No boats allowed under water".

Good looking kid, and reads to you too... must take after his mother

Damn! Good pictures, glad to hear you were able to save it. Good thing it's that style of fishing boat and not a cuddy or something!

Steve