Oulton Broad Yacht Station This Morning

[Helian]

3 hours ago, Mouldy said:

Yeah . . . . . . . . . . . . . I remember them.  The Van de Graaff generator was one (and I don’t mean the 60’s prog rock band!).  Put your hands on the dome as the teacher turned the crank and your hair stood up.  All was well until you were told to take one hand off the dome and touch a classmate!  Electrifying!!

This was one of many methods of punishment at my school for getting a low (ish) mark in a physics test! Chemistry lab next door had a patch in the ceiling where, rumour had it, an experiment went wrong...

[JanetAnne]

2 hours ago, Roy said:

Did they have any luck raising the southern belle yesterday? 

 

They didn't try. Seems the current thinking is to raise her mid march when the tides are lower.

She should have got a decent hold of the mud by then.

[Smoggy]

Easy solution, hire a bouncy castle for the weekend, shove it in through a door and inflate it, once off the bottom pull a big tarp under the boat up to roof level and pump the water out.

Return bouncy castle.

I guess the thinking is that unless the engine is going to be sorted straight away it will be better off under water away from air and it will corrode less, but leaving it under for longer makes for a much bigger repair job, unless of course it's being written off.

[Roy]

47 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

Easy solution, hire a bouncy castle for the weekend, shove it in through a door and inflate it, once off the bottom pull a big tarp under the boat up to roof level and pump the water out.

Return bouncy castle.

I guess the thinking is that unless the engine is going to be sorted straight away it will be better off under water away from air and it will corrode less, but leaving it under for longer makes for a much bigger repair job, unless of course it's being written off.

I hope she’s not going to written off I can remember reading a interesting article about her history can’t think where that article was but she’s had an interesting life. 

 

 

[grendel]

there is that big rubber balloon thing not a few hundred feet in front of her they could use.

[JanetAnne]

21 hours ago, grendel said:

there is that big rubber balloon thing not a few hundred feet in front of her they could use.

Leave me out of this 

[Vaughan]

16 minutes ago, JanetAnne said:

Leave me out of this 

Me too!   

[NorfolkNog]

This photo was taken on the 10th before the storm and clearly shows the very low freeboard which Vaughan refers to. 

[BroadAmbition]

Has she been raised?

Griff

[Tobster]

3 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:

Has she been raised?

Griff

Not yet !

[JanetAnne]

The longer she is down the heavier she'll get.

[Tobster]

47 minutes ago, JanetAnne said:

The longer she is down the heavier she'll get.

Another Yellowtail at this rate!!!

[JanetAnne]

2 hours ago, Tobster said:

Another Yellowtail at this rate!!!

Was it you Toby who told me the remnants of Yellow Tail is laid the other side of the railway bridge?

[Tobster]

1 hour ago, JanetAnne said:

Was it you Toby who told me the remnants of Yellow Tail is laid the other side of the railway bridge?

Yes I did, she is between the railway bridge and what was Kevincraft, Cleavland Joinery now I think. 

[Tobster]

Still underwater this afternoon.

 

[CeePee1952]

Surely that's not going to be salvageable after sitting like that for so long?  Then again I'm no expert 

Chris

[JanetAnne]

The problems are that all the normally dry interior parts become increasingly saturated so the boat gets heavier and then, as it settles into the mud it gets a better hold of the river bed. Breaking that suction will be the hardest part.

It's a bit like lifting your mud weight after a couple of hours or after a couple of weeks. The longer it's down there the more it's stuck! 

[Tobster]

I wonder if there has been any fuel, oils or other contaminants leak into the water since she sunk.

[JanetAnne]

Well the sheets are in place, the divers are in and the pumps started about 17.00

 

[Islander]

Looks like she’s up. Looking from The Wherry Hotel webcam.

Colin 

[FairTmiddlin]

From the camera 10:30 am

 

[JanetAnne]

Yes, sorry. I thought someone else was going to post the news but they haven't!

She was up by about 20.00 last night. She is sitting with a list to starboard which is the way she was laid when on the bottom so I reckon there must be quite a collection of silt in the hull.

She is not out of the woods yet but they did get her up which was an achievement

[Tobster]

Sorry Dave, I was waiting to see if she stayed up.

I don’t think much of there attempt at the vinyl rap on the hull, have seen better!

[Tobster]

Poor old Southern Bell has sunk again, not sure we can blame the weather this time…..

very sad sight.

 

[JanetAnne]

She went down overnight Wednesday.