Oregon and Washington *ping*
Here’s a link to a closely related thread...
Derelict vessel to be enclosed by cofferdam, scrapped
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2696291/posts
I’m amazed that you can moor a floating liability like this anywhere without posting a substantial bond to cover the costs of cleanup after it sinks.
The costs involved with renovating a hull like this for any purpose are astronomical, and there was never any realistic hope of anyone doing anything with this other than scrapping it years ago. The State sold it off because it was no longer usable, and they should have made sure it was sold for scrap, period.
If the owner doesn’t have the means to fix this POS then it’s a fair guess he doesn’t have the means to salvage it after it sinks. And of course the State can’t step in now until it actually does, and starts leaking oil into the water.
This is a very beg and very expensive problem...
That is not a 25 degree list to port!
Maybe she lists more at low tide because she is on the mud.
The best solution is to drag that good looking thing on shore and turn it into 100 Section 8 apartments for low income crab pickers. Obama would like that!
Talk to him.....
It would be so cool if it could be restored, but wow... that’s going to take an enormous amount of money. It seems awfully unlikely at this point.
Maybe they could just drag it onto land, gut it, scrap the guts, but keep the unique upper section. Turn it into a restaurant or a nightclub or artsy studio spaces or something.