Tom,
After Katrina, several insurance companies got together to run salvage joint
ops and gather all the salvaged boats in centralized locations. Many of the
boats were simply crushed. Others were sold to people who merely wanted a
cheap place to live. Many are still in the area, abandoned or being lived in
by the derelicts that bought them with no intention or resources to repair them.
Those of us in the marine repair business wouldn't touch them because by the
time you repaired them for sale or tried to parts them out, you'd find yourself
working for $2/hour.
Salvage operations happen on a continuous basis in marinas. Owners abandon
boats or allow them to sink, the marina operators take possession and either
crush them or sell them cheap. If they sell them, it's usually on the
condition they remove them quickly. Marina operators have found that selling a
boat cheap to someone and allowing it to stay means that they will have to deal
with that same boat again in a few months. There's always some pie-eyed
dreamer with no money that wants to fix up a boat and sail it around the world.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
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> From: TOM VINCENT <tvince...@msn.com>
>To: C&C Forum <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 9:27 PM
>Subject: Stus-List Where's the salvage?
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>Superstorm Sandy devastated a lot of boats in its path. I wonder if anyone
>knows where the salvage is? I hear many sad stories of boats being destroyed
>and never hear of salvage. If anyone knows where we find out, it would be
>great to share it with the group. Katrina is another storm that produced a lot
>of salvage and it disappeared.
>
>Tom Vincent
>Frolic II 36' cb
>Chesapeake City, MD
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