Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

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On July 11, 2011, Tom Richardson got to witness the demolition of the Miss China, a 67-foot former commercial fishing boat with an interesting history. In 2010 the disabled wood-hulled former shrimper was being used as the floating home of Nantucket scalloper Joe Dooley and his 4 dogs, until it broke free of its mooring in Nantucket Harbor in a December gale and grounded in front of Brant Point Light.

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Re: Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

Kind of sad. Old fishing boats litter the inlets and coves here and make some excellent photgraphy subjects plus eventually the make great additions to the reefs. Thanks for posting.
 
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Thanks for posting this.
 
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Re: Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

Nothing a little seacast wont fix!
 
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Re: Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

Sad to see, but that's what happens to old wooden boats, sooner or later, one way or another. We've been cruising the St. Johns River in Florida for many years and there's old boats laying here and there along the way in various degrees of decay, every year they sink a bit lower in the water, birds, turtles and gators live there now, and one year we ride by and the old wooden lady is just gone, sunk beneath the surface, maybe all that's showing is a mast!....sorta sad to see!
 
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I was wondering :confused: do they that to old sailors as well :facepalm:
 
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Re: Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

robert graham said:
Sad to see, but that's what happens to old wooden boats, sooner or later, one way or another. We've been cruising the St. Johns River in Florida for many years and there's old boats laying here and there along the way in various degrees of decay, every year they sink a bit lower in the water, birds, turtles and gators live there now, and one year we ride by and the old wooden lady is just gone, sunk beneath the surface, maybe all that's showing is a mast!....sorta sad to see!
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I've never seen that in person, but someone posted a bunch of photos of the boats on the St Johns River a few years ago
 
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Several along shore, back in creeks. Guess folks just dragged them back there and left them. A few were big river boats with iron boilers for steam, and now all that's there is the rusty old boiler barely sticking above the surface. St Johns River used to be the main steam ship transportation artery into and out of Florida before the roads, railroads, Interstate highways, etc. It ran from Jacksonville to Palatka, Welaka, Silver Springs, Astor, Sanford. Even now there's a great wooden boat shop and museum in Welaka that's worth a visit. Lots of history there!
 
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Re: Old Commercial Fishing Boat Meets Wrecking Ball

there's an old trawler that half sank into the marsh at an angle across from the ashley marina here in charleston. for about two years some dude on a small junker house boat used it as a mooring lol. then DNR forced him to set up his own mooring.

the past two weeks I've noticed a salvage company with a white floating barrier around it slowly hacking away at it. glad to see it go honestly.

it started out with the entire cabin above the water line at high tide until right before the salvage company started on it, you could only see the top of the windows and the roof above the water. it was going to get dangerous for those who didnt know it was there.
 
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Yep, and there was an old shrimp trawler scuttled in that shallow area right behind the old coal loading terminal up off the Cooper River, probaly about rotted down by now, but I'll bet the engines are still there.
 
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