Another boat down at Beauchamp Arms

[NorfolkNog]

Bit better view of the starboard side Gary! Seriously though, you are doing a fantastic job bringing this lovely old girl back. Best of luck and please keep us posted with your progress!

[teadaemon]

That is the one I was thinking of where the owner lived aboard. I hope he's ok.

[jillR]

thats terrible

i cant imagine comming home to find my home under water

it was bad enough to come home and have to wait an hour for the tide to come in so that my home stood up straight

enough for bilgefairy and i to get aboard.

jill

[senator]

that must have been the one, guess it was blue and a tarpaulin rather than a red canopy, good job I am not a police witness.

I hope the chap that lived aboard got off as there was only the stern still above water.

[jillR]

hi ian

i guess he must have been away for a while as ressy boats sinking is a very rare thing as the owner is on hand to stop it hapening

jill

[gary01]

thanks for the pic of caravelle nog , will def be turning her around and washing starbord side tomorrow . as for the other boat i dont think the guy has been living on it for a while as i've not seen anyone and ian has stuck a river tax not paid sign on it . i'll get some pics and post em tomorrow.

[gary01]

pics of the ill fated cruiser at beauchamp arms now on my flikr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_morris67

[Guest]

Poor lass I wonder how she went down... Maybe she got hung up on something

Jonny

[NorfolkNog]

She doesn't look to have gone down too far, so maybe a pump out would be possible?

[gary01]

was low (ish) tide when pics were taken , water level at low tide is normally about 6 inches or so lower at extreme high tide then water levels are 6 inches from top of moorings. but i do belive a pump out is possible, only problem being its the other side of a gate so pumps will need to be on a pontoon next to the boat. apparently the guy was working on the boat the day before she sank, no one knows who he is , not even BA .

[pks1702]

Sad sight

[senator]

You can see the waterline above the front windows and over the roof where it was up to when we went past.

All you could see was the wheelhouse and the stern.

[jillR]

shes still down

[loribear]

OH DEAR that's so sad, it makes you want to weep, it looked liked like it was a nice boat once, lori

[BuffaloBill]

If you look at my photo in the banner when it shows the Beauchamp, you will see

her as she was 3yrs ago. I'm surprised someone does'nt get the pumps going as

it does'nt appear to need the work we put in with 'Caravelle'. A couple of good

pumps would do the job fairly quickly.

Edited to add that she used to be moored where 'Caravelle' is now.

[gary01]

we were talking about that in the pub last wednesday bill but we were unsure of salvage rights ect if owner cannot be trased in good time as she needs to come up asap.

[jillR]

her hull is seacrete

if she was built by wind boats (and i think she may be as she looks like a sister ship to cetus) then the hull is bullet proof.

cetus topsides were rebuilt in the 90s and are not original lines .....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40472712@N ... olk-broads

jill

[BuffaloBill]

Looking on Craigs site, she was/is called 'Moonraker' T711

I thought she was a lovely style of boat from her era.

There appears to be no shorepower connected in the photo's

so I wonder if the bilge pump just flattend the battery(ies)

and with a well leaking stern gland she went slowly down.

Once past the skin fittings, it would'nt have taken very long

to finish her off.

She does appear to be laying on the bottom there so should

be a 'relatively easy' job at low tide to re-float her, but needs

doing soon or she's going to need some major work.

Another project for you Gary...

[jillR]

whoops sorry i posted the wrong link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40472712@N02/3842635010/

[gary01]

the owner was on the boat the day before so she went down fairly quick. she looks like a nice boat i was thinking the same thing on the wednesday before as i sat on the front of caravelle drinking a coffee. there is no electric on those moorings and there only 24 hr moorings aparently. as for another project you really think i have the time ... lol ... but ya never know .

[senator]

It was extremely windy on the Thursday night and through Friday, I would guess that that had something to do with it going down.

[ranworthbreeze]

We saw that this boat was on the bottom when we passed on the 12th June on our way to Loddon.

Its a pity that another of these older boats has sunk in the same area, that boat has been moored there for long time if memory serves me correctly.

Regards

Alan Hood

Ranworth Breeze

[MBA Marine]

Then there is this one near the River Garden pub in Thorpe

[andyfish]

Sad to see Boats in this state,hope they can be raised and put right again

Andy

[NorfolkNog]

Bit off topic but we passed the Thorpe boat last month. According to Craig’s database it looks to be ‘Sureline’ Looks to be one of Clive’s??

Nice pair of air horns, if they had been around our way they would have been nicked by now……

Sad to see a boat like this though