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Posted: Mon Apr 13th, 2020 17:49

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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I will take some pix in the morning (daylight) I think seven planks is optimistic in the extreme. He is planning to drag the boat at least it's length further up the shore, reducing it's depth by perhaps a Metre, The stress of that will probably finish her off. He wasn't clear if he was expecting to move her before or after the repair.

It really is an amazing structure, the craftsmanship and the way the planks have been bent, twisted and shaped to create the contours of the boat are really something to admire, it really is worth preserving but I honestly feel it's gone too far, I'm not the only one, most of the boat savvy chaps I know here say the same. The sea is so powerful that a boat of it's size endures a real beating in a heavy sea. It was caught by a heavy wave, broadside which rocked it hard and burst the side open near the stern, Dave had to shut the diesel bilge pumps down to prevent them from being wrecked when they sucked in water as the boat sank. When the tide went out, it burst the forward compartments, which were by then, full of water.

The batteries are charged, I'm off out at 23:05

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Robert.