bvi captains log blog

Does anyone remember about a year or so ago there was a 39 foot monohull out of Moorings, on barboat that sank in the channel when a squall hit in like 5 minutes flat? The guests were rescued...It sunk with all it's hatches open and full sails up in 170 feet of water? Well, Chris from Commercial Dive Services lifted that boat in the last week and we went down to look at it this afternoon.

It was like a tourist attracting with people wandering back and forth!

The smell was about enough to knock you over...



Apparently he rose it in stages, letting it sit at different depths as it came up....once they had it up they took it into Little Harbour on Peter Island for a couple days and turned it over and over cleaning the long growth off the hull.

We are told the engine started, the heads still flushed, the tanks are intact, and the major damage is the mast, all corroded (and the smell!)

Apparently this boat was only about 4 weeks old when it went down....and both of the commercial companies around offered to bring it up for the insurance company for about ten thousand, which they declined, so I guess it comes under abandoned salvage laws now....

Even a flag still flying!

There appears to be no implosions or hull damage really...

This poor guy is pressure washing out the inside as it sits on the end of C dock now at Village Cay...

Did I mention it REALLY smells?

It should have been brought up after it was first located...

I told Bazza that I DON'T WANT IT!! It smells! Pretty exciting to see it though!


That was our excitement other then immigration and labour this morning. All 30 people showing up at 845 to cram in the little Labour office. It was a good thing doing mine the same time as my husbands as I made him stay in that cramped hot little room and I waiting outside. We were done in about 3 hours this year. Not bad.