Hutchinson Wooden Boat Salvage
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Quick video of a recovery of a classic Hutchinson Brothers Wooden boat built in Alexandria Bay, NY. We did not know why the boat sank but quickly figured it out...
FYI.. it was only down there 2 or 3 days.. watch the first dive without airbags on it and you can see the deck is super clean. Then look at the second dive (with airbags) and it starting to get cover in slime!!!!
When that boat is restored it will be like that axe that has been in my family for three generations. It has only had two new heads and three new handles.
The hammer of Theseus😂
@@TheRandompaintit's known as the Ship of Theseus
@@michaelruane8793 I'm aware, the original comment was talking about a hammer.
A new money pit brought ashore!
maybe to you
A little flex tape and she's good as new !!
Ha! I thought that too!
flex tape won't work this time because the boat wasn't sawed in half.
I spit my coffee out reading this comment, well done 👍
Me too. I would have commented had I not read 3 comments down to your comment. Hs hs
Oh that poor old girl. Topsides look good, so someone has been neglecting below the waterline. A skilled boatwright could have her back up and running in no time, but it’ll cost big 💵
in no time? you clearly aren't familiar with wooden boats.
@@herbertgarrison6548 I’m very familiar with wooden boats, thanks. That was simply a figure of speech; it would take a team of skilled boatwrights quite a long while to repair, but I wasn’t kidding about costing big 💵.
At least it wasn’t salt water!
@UncaDave actually if it was salt water it would have been fine. Most wooden boats on salt water rot from the top down, I.e. rainwater.
Always something eerie about a sunk boat!
Really beautiful classic woody! Looks like she just rotted right out from within without anyone really seeing it. Probably didn't take much before she split up like that. I bet she went down FAST too.😳 Really cool recovery!👍
Thanks 😊
Fresh water is the killer of many a handsome wooden vessel
@@killyourtelllievision Salt water doesn't rot wood.
@@killyourtelllievision not for wood..your sorley mistaken..
@@leejohnson6173
Thank you Sir.
I stand corrected.
That’s Ben Gardners boat….That’s Ben Gardeners boat!
Aye.
🤪
Very cool to watch, shame about the hull being so rotten below the waterline, this is why I'm glad I don't have a wood boat!
I can see the ad now - "mint condition, captain maintained since new, owner will consider offers!"
Freshly washed.
jmj002vp just needs a coat of wax
I was thinking flex tape!! 😳
Slightly damp.
Skis optional
I can see the Craigslist ad now. "Ran when parked".
parked underwater
Huge amount of work = huge $$$ to get that back into serviceable use.
It appears to be lifted out of the water too quickly. While water is still pouring out the stern vents the crane operator is still lifting. Should have used pumps as soon as the tension came on the slings I think
Looking at how it split i would say that was only the final nail in the coffin. I'm guessing it already had serious issues.
It was held together by her hull paint. Needs a complete tear down to ribs and re-skinned. Welcome to wooden boats
Ahhh but that 30 minutes when everything is perfect.........then the owner gets it. (sigh)
That is what I was thinking to much stress on the frame and hull and busted out the bottom
I was wondering if they had hit a floating log to punch a hole in the bottom to sink it. After seeing how the planking burst at the chine, I imagine the original hole was just from slapping the water while motoring around, then sinking it. It's been three years now, so maybe they have restored it.
easy repair and it will be as good as new , but they should do a total rebuild and it will become better than when it was built , so glad it was saved
She's ready for a proper triple plank epoxy-mahogany bottom. Better than new.
Nice job Ed... saving this beauty!
Looks like a well loved boat
Sad to see a classic like this but good to see it salvaged to hopefully be restored
Waterline rot is the scourge of all wooden boats,wood that's always underwater no real problem,wood that's always dry the same,it's the constant soaking and drying that's the problem,this boat deserves to be repaired but only by an experienced professional builder of wooden boats,it will be expensive.
Love all the comments of “easy repair”..
GREAT VID!!!! AND AWESOME JOB!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Very nice recovery guys very professional maybe some day we can install these babes on aircraft flotation
June 2024 we need updates on repais .. is it running and hoping under original power plant 😅😊👍
Nice little winter project for someone.
You know why pirates are so mean? They just ARRRRRR.
WOW epic boat salvage! Look us up if your ever in Fort Worth Texas!
Thank you... and definitely
That shit’ll buff out.
Did it hit a iceberg?
A easy job
Edit : very well raised and salvaged
That is where my wooden boat leak, yeah it sank, but the ropes saved it from the bottom.
Hard to believe owner wasnt aware the waterline was in that condition.
Nice recovery 👍👍 With the right skills & tools she can be repaired $$$ Oh yea & 💰 money.
My great grandpa built boats near the River edge well before it was made back when it was a pancake hose if i remember wright. I use to get rides in the Riot delivering news papers in the 60's. If i remember wright Hutchinson worked for the Duclon's in the early to mid 1900's.
That travelift operator did more damage than the initial sinking. Wooden boats aren’t built to hold water, they are built to keep the water out. Lifting it with the hull filled with water like that will just rip the planking apart like it did. So much for “professionals”.
So the lift operator was responsible for the rotten hull was he ?
That hull has been in that condition for a long while & only a fool would take that on water.
From an insurance standpoint, that boat was an expensive damaged mess the moment it sank, so any damage done during salvage is irrelevant.
I was there when it was pulled out there was a lot of discussion on how to get it out. You can’t keep the water out of boat that size with the huge holes in the hull. So they did the best they could with the given situation.
Tough situation, can’t keep it in the water and pump it to alleviate pressure , you’d have to drain the river lol ! I don’t know what else they could have done, looks like they kept it as low in the water as possible while it drained.
@@Chris-jm4zk raising it slower allowing the water to drain out of the existing hole would have likely caused less damage but as mentioned it was rotted already so a moot point.
There was no saving that hull.
What a shame such a beautiful boat I do hope she's salvageable their some awesome boats if properly cared for.
Well, it's been three years since this video was published. Was it salvaged or scrapped?
Hope yall picked up the stuff that was beside the boat up too
That's why most people only own a wooden boat once. Water had to be sitting in that hull for a very long time.
Wooden boats have to be taken care of, like a woman. She needs love. In this fiberglass age, people just leave them sitting. While on their cell phones swiping at Tinder.
@@uppitywhiteman6797 Agreed. It's amazing she didn't sink at the dock. That will be one expensive fix, hull planking rotten, ribs rotten and just finding someone who has the skill to do that work.
@@greggacek1655 He didn't look at the ribs too much. They looked fairly solid. (they didn't crumble when he touched them. But, he didn't poke them with a knife. So it hard to tell.
It looked like he hit something and it tore at the rotten garboard side planking and holed the bottom.
But your right it's going to be expensive to fix. Boatwrights are getting to be very expensive.
It comes from letting the boat sit open and allowing fresh rainwater to sit in the boat.
Like I said. a wooden boat is like a woman.
If you don't show her love, she can cost you a fortune.
Fresh water is the enemy of a wooden boat. Salt water kills dry rot fungus. Why you see so many wooden boats in seawater that have ok hulls, but the decks go and let rainwater into the interior and it rots from the inside out. I've known some wooden boat owners that leave salt blocks in the bilge to make sure any rainwater that does get in instantly becomes saline.
@@uppitywhiteman6797 Yeah. But then you'd be surprised how much wood is in the structure of many fiberglass boats!
Turn up your volume so we can hear you better
I think that split was caused by lifting it too fast and not supporting the bottom. The weight of the water just pushed the bottom away from the sides. You can tell the water was high up in the hull because it was pouring out of the vents at the rear. The wood might have been rotten too, which would not have helped.
Wow. Might take a bit but she's a beauty. Keep us posted, please. (Subscribed)
That huge gash is from the crane operator lifting the boat out when it was still full of water. The enormous extra weight disintegrated the structure. Should have someone less trigger happy operate the lift next time.
Plainly, the bilges were rotten!
What caused it to sink? Was Captain Morgan at t helm?
With wood prices now fixing that will make it a million dollar boat
We’re you able to restore this boat
Yes.
That boat is toast
I’ve bodged bigger holes with a couple of tubes of Sikaflex!!!
Has it been restored?
That is a cool old boat
Reckon the anti fouling bottom paint was the only thing holding the bilge of that boat together.
Oh that just hurts to watch...
Looks like someone covered up the rot, probably sold it, and the new owner lost big.... unless there's a large insurance policy....🤔
Can we get an update? Seeing this four years later.
Would like to see this one fixed
That’s so sad. That’s history right there sad to see it in that condition
So why did it sink then? That long hole sure was not there when they left. Did they hit something?
Why even post it without sound?
That boat is completely stuffed
I bet it went down real quick 😳
Probably not worth saving, but you could use the measurements to reconstruct a new one, modern techniques and materials would make a better finished boat that won't rot
couldn't here a thing, not sure why, thought I should let you know. nice job, gettin the boat though.
snake mountain boat works their specialty restoring wood boats
there was a lot of stuff on lake bottom, speakers shirt, bottles. did that stuff just stay there.
Absolutely Not… it was all picked up!! Thanks for the comment.
looks like the varnish and bottom paint were the only thing holding that old tub together. Separate the metal and fire pit the rest.
Monk Denton the bottom is definitely rotten but it’s an a woody from Alexandria Bay.. so probably worth the $$$ to fix.
Snake Mt Boatworks in VT could rebuild her like new. Amazing craftsmen.
@@edduda3 What were the economics of lifting the Hutch? Do you own it now? What will you do with it?
@@edduda3 ... likely worth bigger bucks when all done!
Jeeze....A someone who just squeaked by passing a course on wooden boats 101, a quick poke here and there with a pick awl would have kept that piece of rotten wood from seeing a drop of water! Water tight as a screen door!
"Can this be fixed?" Of course! Anything made of wood can be fixed.
nice job guys !!
Hallo from Germany behinde 3 Years has this Boat a 2 nd live ?
Lifting wooden boat, full of water, is really destroing the planking. No fastenings handle that pressure
Destroying what planking..it's all rotten on the bottom quarter of the boat..😂
That boat wasn't standing there for longe time it was sunked yesterday maybe 🤔
It was down for a few days only.
Beyond hope. Rotten wood
How deep was the water?
You should give Carter bags a try. Just a suggestion.
Did anyone pick up the junk laying on the ground around the boat?
Yes sir... even a flip-flop came back.
Live to sail another day..
Hopefully
What depth is IT there?
I wonder if some plywood screwed over the hole would have allowed you to pump out the boat while it was still on the water? Seems like you wouldn't wanna lift a boat when it's filled with water, the bottom may come out of any boat, much less one with rot. Select sizes of plywood with screws partially driven in, and a cordless drill that works under water........
Great job
Greetings from southern Ontario Canada how much would this recovery cost from start to finish and what paper work is required thanks for the presentation
wow.. that is some damage
10:08 Nothing like gaping holes in the hull to provide good drainage! Did you also pick up any of that garbage visible at 1:29?
That's so awesome
Ya can’t leave us hangin 😳 what is going to be the future of this beautiful old girl? Will she be restored or scraped? I certainly hope that she finds a good home and will be restored to previous glory 🤞. Have to say that the audio was quite challenging. I subscribed anyway.
Lol the audio did suck.. mic was full of water or in a housing. Life of a diver. I will check on the outcome. I hope she is inside stripped to her ribs!! Thanks for the sub and comment.
So where does my boat sank fit into the old saying of “the best days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it”?
Sound sucks. Nice looking boat it will be great when a new bottom is put on it.
It was junk for sure, but they picked it up to quick and the side split from the weight of the water. Anyway, thing was obviously rotten,,,,, fresh water kills wooden boats.
My thoughts as well. If the only hole were the one we saw when it was in the water it would have been OK. But then I saw that sheet of water cascading out and I thought oh shit, the weight of the water split it.
❤❤❤❤ that's what you call a slipper bottom right flip it over and take the bottom off of put new one on that and 10,000 good as new
Should have taken a screw Driver down took off the Hardware and salvaged that and left the rest down there .
lol that’s littering!! 😳
Could not hear a thing. Beautiful old boat though!
Awesome video but I couldn’t hear you.
Sorry it was the GoPro housing!! Should have voiced over it. 🤔
When did it sink
*Can this be fixed? No.*
Yes but not cheap!!
Lots of firewood
she's a beauty how in the hell did it wind up abandoned
where have u been?
Health issues.. healing up and getting ready to dive back in!! Will get a new vid out from a drone recovery soon. Thanks for asking
@@edduda3 oh hope it goes well!
Will take a master boat maker to restore this boat. Unless it is of historical significance, it may not be worth it.
Edwaed Gibbons - It's not as bad as it seems, but it's a lot of work.
What's the back story, how did it wind-up at the bottom of the bay?
Shes a beautiful boat
Damn that boat was rotten! As an owner of an vintage mahogany boat I cant understand how any owner let their boat go to this condition...
Gonna take a total restoration. $$$$$
Such a beautifully built boat what happened to her
really sad to see such a beautiful boat sitting on the bottom like that, i think with some time and love and yes, a fair bit of money, she could be brought back to her formal glorey. hope so.
Any more video on her rebuild? Who is doing it?
Water termites?