[loligo]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-lisink0213,0,4584048.story

quote:
A salvage company was trying to raise a 75-foot fishing boat that sank at the Point Lookout Fish Dock at 4:30 a.m. Monday, the Coast Guard reported.

The wooden-hulled Pearl W. O'Neal based in New Bedford, Mass., contacted the Coast Guard when it began taking on water at the dock where it was tied up alongside another fishing boat. Pumps were unable to keep up with the flooding, and the Pearl W. O'Neal sank to the sandy bottom.

The three-man crew was not injured, and the 500 gallons of diesel fuel has not leaked.

 

[619627]

Boy that is terrible.... I read in the story that even with 3 pumps she went down at the Pt. Lookout dock. That must of been some bad flooding into the vessel. Hope those guys can get that patched up.

With the weather the way it has been the last day, no surprise. Like to hear a good outcome from this.

EC NEWELL MAN<>

 

[loligo]

I imagine they'll refloat her, but what the boat will be any good or no?

The wires and the electronics are probably totally wasted?

Just 1 day and the wires are probably toast.

Shame- not many wooden boats left and this was a working boat from the sounds of things.

 

[CaptPaul]

11 degrees this morning. Something froze explosively. Tough break.

Paul

 

[STRIKERTHREE]

sounds like some planks may have blew below the water line

 

[claw1]

The Capt is either smart or lucky , no oil leak yet. Plank is possible , but why at the dock?

 

[619627]

Claw you made a very good point...no oil or fuel spills, which is a VERY BIG $$$$$$$$$ DEAL.

Capt. Paul might be right with a through hole fitting letting go due to the sub zero temps on this old wooden vessel. Plank letting go at the dock? Hmmmm....I don't know, but you would have to see the C.G. report on the cause of the sinking.

Jr, you know it...electronics, wiring and other things that have to be replaced...

Really hope it works out for the captain and crew of this f/v.

EC NEWELL MAN><

 

[seahag2]

NOT THAT BAD

The clock dosen't start ticking till the boat is raised out of the water.The engine and transmission are fine under water becouse there is no oxagen-oxegen-oxegan-o2 but as soon as it hits air you only have a few hours to strip it all down.completly apart.Only when its an inspected vessal like a party boat is it a big deal-rewiring, all new safty equipment, hull inspections.oxygen?

 

[MakoMike]

H'mm New Bedford boat in Pt. Lookout? Maybe she had a problem and came into NY for emergency repairs?

 

[loligo]

That's what I was thinkin too

MakoMike wrote:
H'mm New Bedford boat in Pt. Lookout? Maybe she had a problem and came into NY for emergency repairs?

I mean why would they be way down there?

 

[claw1]

Lots of dayboat scalloping going on in Pt. Lookout right now.

 

[Vector]

saw a commercial boat fishing off Jones beach on Sunday afternoon

I saw a dark colored commercial boat dragging about 1 mile off Jones Beach and the boat was going up and down in the heavy seas. It was blowing 45 miles an hour and there out there fishing !

 

[bayconstable]

Vector wrote:
I saw a dark colored commercial boat dragging about 1 mile off Jones Beach and the boat was going up and down in the heavy seas. It was blowing 45 miles an hour and there out there fishing !


I saw that boat too. I'm pretty sure she was not fishing, the blue hulled boat had it's birds out to stablize it in the seas. It was pretty impressive to watch it steam through those conditions.

 

[STRIKERTHREE]

What i can see happening is the through hull fitting freezing and expanding blowing out and cracking the plank it was in could be a combination of both but i guess we will never know

 

[Aquarius]

I am sure that LobsterD will get the 411. He has his lobster business based out of Pt. Lookout. Hopefully, he will supply some pics as well.

 

[bayconstable]

I just rechecked and it has not been raised yet. She is down at the stern and is not leaking any fuel at this time.

 

[Scott1280]

AS lucky as the Capt was to not lose any fuel, I think the luckiest part of the whole story was that he was at the DOCK when it happened!

MM - I've seen several out of state registered boats at this Point Lookout Piers over the season. Not sure why but they've been there.

 

[gebby]

i dont remember the date, champoinship sunday i was listening to the pats/sd game at field six taking pictures of a pair of boats close in off the needle. prob 30-35' maybe 1.5-2.0 miles off. i dont believe ive ever seen pair trawlers but these might very well have been. they looked to me to be the same shape and dimensions of the herring boats ive seen pictures of from up north on tht. they appeared to be about .5-.75 miles apart and just drifting, maybe pulling back. honestly i wasnt sure at all what they were doing. i forgot i took those pictures and never looked at them, ill post em up tonight.

and aquarius, i could be wrong but i think lobsterd's boat is on hudson canal in freeport, next to mako marine, where i used to keep my boat.

 

[638475]

Have they thrown any boom around her yet?

The fuel oil isn't the problem, as it will flash off with the sun. The BIG problem is the Lubes and Hydro oil that will stick to EVERYTHING, then become a viscose mess, tar balls.....eeewwww, people may want to get the skipper of this F/V to hire Tradewinds environmental or Millers, on his "own accord" to come and do some preventive booming before the coasties step in, when the USCG calls a contractor to come in to standby or clean a situation it gets VERY expensive, VERY fast (environmental contractors have what is known as a B.O.A {basic order agreement} with the USCG that makes the response companies Time, material and personnel rate go up 3.5 times over normal. It is a standard that is described in the actual literatue of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.) because all people need is a picture of a black back gull with an oiled wing and you'll have all the envio nuts wanting a public hanging......

 

[648457]

I kid no one about this. the captain of the pearl oneil had his wife pass away about a week ago. he was day scalloping out of point lookout only becouse he had worn his welcome everywhere else.all this on top of his boat sinking.