Hurricane Ian Boat Recovery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- After sitting on land for one month after Hurricane Ian ripped her from the dock and blew her ashore, TowBoatUS arrives in an attempt to lift Happy Ours off her perch in the neighbors yard and put her back in the water.
The 60 ton crane was pushed to the limit. A 2006 Meridian 341 sport bridge weighs 18500 pounds dry. With fuel, water and gear it’s weight can be well over 20000 pounds. There was also an undetermined amount of water still trapped in the bilge due to the precarious angle the boat was sitting at. No one knew how much more that would weigh, and the distance from shore was an issue. Will it survive? Will it sink?
Many thanks to the crew from TowBoat US who worked this feat!
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Thank you so much for capturing this harrowing recovery of _Happy Ours_ ! We may be a little biased, but we think our TowBoatUS teams are the best in the business. Your video really highlights the professional work they do. Thank you for putting your trust in us for so many years, and here's to getting _Happy Ours_ back on the water soon.
Thank you!
Had BoatUS when I had a boat back the early 90 and they helped me out when my outdrive cooked on a weeked. The inside seal on the gimbal let go and all the bearings got toasted.
They covered everything minus my deductible, of course, through the marina where I had my boat. They worked with the marina and I found out it was up and running the next weekend. They were bothgreat I never lost any time boating. Oh those were the days!
Good luck with your boat maybe one day I'll have another but I just go on private charters now it's less worries.
Both of my sons boats are with boat us in Ohio, they are wonderful.
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BoatUs, how was the crane attached to the barge such that it didn't slide off?
As a fellow boat owner I feel the stress. But it actually looked like the boat did well. Impressed with the professional skill of those guys. Keep us updated on the rehab.
For what that boat went through, I’m stunned how well the hull faired
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I doubt it went through much. The wind won't really hurt it, the water came up and broke it loose from its dock and set it on the land of the neighbors house. Not really much to damage the boat. If it didn't hit anything during this process it should be fine. I've seen boats discovered a half mile inland and they were ok. Sitting in a parking lot. They were lifted onto a flatbed and put back in the water.
This one took out an entire boat lift, steel, pilings and all. The next video you get to see the hull damage as we have it on the hard now.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with fellow boaters. From far and wide, we other owners can feel some of your amazement and heartbreak in dealing with tragic events and damage to your vessel. While anyone, including boaters can by sympathetic, I think only other owners can truly appreciate the gravity of it all and how it can affect you. Wishing you great success and much future boating happiness.
Steve
Carver Mariner 360
Ontario, Canada.
Hi Steve thanks. I had a 2000 Carver Mariner that hurricane Sandy swept away also. We were considering getting a 360 if this was a total loss but things are looking good to keep her.
It’s always satisfying to watch a well oiled machine at work. TowBoatUS has their game down to a T 😀👍🏼
Happy to see your baby back in her home.
Glad to see her back in the water and back at the dock! Kudos to the professionals at Sea Tow.
Not Sea Tow; it was Tow Boat USA.
Now those men are top professionals! Glad to see she's back home where she belongs. And kudos to Meridian. They build a damn good boat! Congratulations Captain. 🎊
Thank GOD for all BLESSINGS AND MIRACLES 🙏 My friend this is a MIRACLE 🙏🙏🙏 Especially considering all the damage everywhere due to this massive storm!!! Thanks for sharing 🤗💞🤗
That couldn't have gone any better. Kudos to TowBoat US. It must be a tremendous relief to have Happy Ours back home safe and mostly sound.
So now will BoatUS still insure your boat? Mine was up river with no salvage or claim. After 23 years of no claims and $34000 in premiums they want $7000 a year for $60000 coverage. Tell me how great they are.
That was not my experience with them. I’ve had a number of large claims over the years. No drastic increases in premiums but I keep my boat replacement values low as possible.
I was holding my breath for that beautiful boat and I don’t even know these guys !! Thanks for the vid !!! 👍
That crane operator is one BRAVE man!
I'll never forget the scene during the Japan tsunami with all those boats getting stuffed under that bridge like leaves down a storm drain; I NEVER want to stand on land and watch my vessel getting destroyed and wishing I'd headed out off shore to face the tempest head-on.
That's one tough hull you've got there, congratulations.
Agree, hard to believe the crane didn't slide off with the angle and load. I'd like to see what kept that from happening. Bolted to the bardge?
@@artsmith103 And nowhere to RUN!
As a crane operator myself I can say he did a very dangerous thing that crane was why out of level.
@@EO.studios Survived more by luck than judgement!
So happy to see her back where she belongs. Gives me goosebumps from Arizona
As a boat owner, I breathed a sigh of relief at about the 12:37 mark on...and SUPER happy for you Captain! TowBoatUS has never left me down either [nor Sea\\Tow for that matter]. I'd also bet your 'neighbor' who has hosted 'Happy Ours' is relieved as well. All around...a great video! On to the 'spit and polish' phase. Cheers...
You need to change the name of your boat to "Lucky Lady". To end up sitting on shore like that with so little damage is amazing. Happy for you, hope you get to enjoy her again soon. Thanks for a bright spot, watching her float again. From Vermont!!
Cowboys in Action, nothing more, nothing less.
Deck Edge Immersion is a critical factor in the loss of Stability and a really basic violation of how to operate ANY vessel.
As for the land based crane rolled onto a barge, am all but certain zero consideration was applied to 'Derating' the crane for Dynamic Lifts. Standard lifting for such a crane is a 'Static Lift', which is what the Lifting Capacity of the crane is calculated for.
Slapping on two chains to each of the outriggers and calling it 'good', is not in any manner an engineered solution.
It is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously injured (or worse) with this style of management of such a hazardous operation.
Yet, so many people will take the attitude "Hey, nothing went wrong, so 'you' clearly don't know what you are talking about".
Enjoyed being with you on your journey on ICW from NY to FL then so sad with outcome the way things played out. Watching this video as it was playing out, and updated with following videos kind of bring “happy ending” new meaning. Keep up the good work, and interesting videos that truly make a difference.
So happy for you guys! I know it's been a month, but I can't believe they did it so soon! You'll be out on the Gulf in no time!
So happy to see her right where she belongs back home !
Great job everyone!!!
The damage doesn’t look bad at all….
That was a awesome job Towboat US did a awesome job i. Also a member, happy for you cap.👍now you can stay on your boat wile you remodeyour home👍👍 that will be awesome savings
That was intense and it wasn’t my boat!
Wow that was stressful! Towboat US, the best $300 I spend every year.
I need a heart pill just from watching. As An owner, wishing you the best. Glad I have Tow Boat USA...Bet the neighbors glad for their cnal view. Thanks for sharing.
New subscriber from Winter Garden, FL glad things went so well in this operation. Smart move, moving the barge instead of changing the settings on the crane. That's when things can go south real fast. Happy Trails
Happy Hours owner, I didn't realize that was your boat until the end, you stayed calm, I would feel sick and cringing if that was my boat. Glad all worked out.
Here hold my beer. WOW!!!! Kudos to the boat owner for his patience, and recovery team for professionalism. 1 boat done - many many more to go.
Not sure of why you think the owner should not have patience? I would be happy seeing them show up.
I certainly was losing patience. Every day on hard another day it could take more damage. But all worked out ok.
So happy for you guys to have her back where she belongs. Great operation to see. I look forward to more videos as you are able. Thank you for sharing.
Imagine almost letting your boat destroy someone else’s house
So I would never tell them how to do their job but I've been a crane repair guy for 40 years now and I can say with ABSOLUTE certainty that this (and others like it) are *extremely* dangerous. The crane isn't made to do that one single bit. Furthermore, they had no solid knowledge of the boat's weight before they picked it.
There are plenty of crane/boat fails online where the crane is properly set up and it goes bad anyway. That barge should at least have some basic spud poles to help keep it leveled better. They will eventually have a catastrophe. I have a customer that fell off of his pads 200 miles from home and woke up in the hospital with no memory of what happened. Yes he lost the crane it was destroyed. I have recovered more toppled cranes than any person ought to.
It's nothing to play with, provided getting home is your objective.
Had one roofing company working at the airport on a hangar with a biggerish boom truck. He had his jib attached, articulated, and extended. The crane wouldn't pick his tearoff box so he basically dragged it off the edge of the roof then lowered it to empty it. They did that all day the first day then on the second or third pick on the second day it came down. The jib landed across the console with his hands still on the levers, then the rope hit him in the hardhat. It was a life-changing career ender. And, they lost that crane too.
The wire rope hit the hard steel side of the boom so hard that it made almost like a wax mold of the rope in the steel. When I got there, all that was left was a bloody broken machine and responder trash. Incidentally, the investigation revealed his rated capacity was 1300 pounds in that position, and most crane stuff has a 3 to 1 safety ratio meaning if you are good for 1000, then 3000 will break it outright. He was rated for 1300, and his empty tearoff box came in at like 1200. His total load that broke the jib was 3900 pounds, exactly three times his rated capacity.
As crane operator I would have got in corner.. lot closer
Wow. Considering the fact that your boat went through a hurricane and was thrown on land, it looks pretty great. There’s not as much damage as I thought there would be. If you haven’t already, hopefully you’ll be able to get her repaired and seaworthy again.
ok so heres a question as a born and raised floridian, with the fluent hurricanes we have why hasnt those coastal marinas came up with a way for people with boats to bring their boats in so their big lifts can take them out the water set them on up the clear rutters and props then strap then down to hurricane anchors to keep tbem from blowing over at the homeowners dock and sinking...i mean i live in ocala,fl and when that last big cat5 came thru about 4 yrs ago i bought 4 4ft mobile home anchors and screwed then in the ground 2 on each side fron and back of my 20ft pro line bay boat on the trailer and put a 4 inch 12k lb strap across it and tightend them both down..we only got 50-60 mph wind when it came thru but i wasnt worried about it blowing away...surely I'm not the only person to think of that???
Most marinas don’t have dry storage space around here and those that do could never accommodate the number of boats we have. Many people move their boats out of the area but you never know where it will until it’s too late. You are right about the anchors. That would save many a boat.
Well Tow Boat US looks really good in FL. They are a joke if you need a boat brought back up if it went down in Charleston SC. I won’t even get into what a joke it was and then the bill for all the hours that they just did not do the job and then finally did it correctly. I think they just wanted to charge for the extra 5 hours. It was a joke.
Tow companies charge from the time they are called and leave their station to to time they return to their station. So even if you were towed only an hour to your dock, it may have taken them 2 hours to get to you, then two hours to get back to their station. Adding up to 5 hours tow fees.
As with any major work done below the waterline when it’s out of the water, you hold your breath when it goes back in. I can’t even imagine your anxiety as AoHO went back in hoping nothing sprung a major leak
That was absolutely terrifying to watch‼️ Seeing the cranes front wheels off the ground could trigger a panic attack! I am so happy for you‼️ I’m in Ft. Myers and my entire family relies on Tow Boat USA. The did a phenomenal recovery for you!
Those wheels were off the deck of the boat before the boat was ever hooked up. Notice the outriggers of the crane were used to provide a wider pivot point.
@@feversol Even so - there's a VERY fine line ..... ... .
Did your neighbor charge you for dry storage for the month. It was on the hard? Lmfao.
Ps. Only made a joke cuz I saw the video of it fixed and running great 👍
Congratulations!!! 🎉
I'm so happy your baby is back in the water. Gave me goose bumps. So happy for you
Amazing! Thank you guys for a great recovery.
Wow, very skilled crew. Happy to see Happy Ours afloat. Astonished that the boat and the place it landed did not seem to sustain major damage. Did your house make it through IAN OK? Hope repairing the damage to Happy Ours is not full of bad surprises.
We had major damage to house. Mostly flood waters that rose 6 inches in the house. Some roof damage but it’s the water that killed us. Near total tear out of floors, walls, doors, appliances.
What about the props, struts, rudders, shafts, thru hulls and possible hull damage?? is it going to a yard for repairs?
Eventually yes. Not yet sure the extent of damages. Still evaluating
those guys in the red did not know here to stand
That's the noise the Crane made in Milwaukee at county stadium before it went down
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Professional crew handling it with great care. They made it look easy which I am sure it was not. Glad they were able to recover it and best of luck with the repairs.
Really good job from the TowBoatUS crew. They clearly planned ahead and had plenty of resources on hand if something went wrong.
Towboat US. should get a. Drone. That would make for some good footage…. Great Recovery. !!! Nice work. !!!
Brilliant - have been following your adventures from here in UK - we vacation in Fort Lauderdale and love spending time on the ICW... hope everything is ok with Happy Ours and you get back out on the water as soon as possible
Surprisingly good condition! ...and you can say the boat is a hurricane survivor too!
That’s amazing. I am thrilled that it looks like happy hours will live to sail another day! She must be a tough old girl.
I guess your's wasn't their first rodeo. Looks like rudders and a blade or two. Nice soft soil helps. Good luck.
Not too bad damage wise considering. Looks like needs just to get the shafts out to check straightness. Couple new props and maybe straighten the rudders.
That was stupid but they got lucky. The barge needs stilts to hold it level.Most cranes have safety devises that prevent them from operating on a unlevel surface.They must have defeated those.Yea that could have gone either way.All they needed was pipe stilts to do it safely and easily.
I know how nerve wracking it can be to watch that. Our Catalina 42 (22,000 lbs) blew ashore in Hurricane Issac. It had a fin keel and it was resting perfectly straight up on that and the rudder, like it was in the yard, and had no damage. But, watching the crane and barge, pick it up and swing it back into the water, I know exactly how you feel. The barge and crane that picked ours up was about four times the size of the one they used for yours, but ours was a lot farther from shore, and watching that barge and crane lean over, like it did with yours, I didn't think it was going to work. But, it ended well. Congratulations on getting your baby back in the water. I know how good that feeling is, too!
That’s promising to hear that! I’m hoping nothing is bent but expect there HAS to be something wrong right? Lol. Expect the worst and hope for the best.
Tow Boat US to the rescue! Great job! Did not know they had this additional equipment aand barge. Very Good! Next time a Hurricane is expected to hit the Florida coast, move the boat to another state. Lucky you still have a watercraft after all that. Good Luck!
There is another Happy Ours in Naples Bay. Not yours obviously.
Congratulations on getting Happy Ours back home! Hoping the repairs and dealing with insurance goes smoothly.
I was hoping for a bit more breeze whilst the young lady was standing there.🤣
You definetely don't want to slew the crane when it's not level. They handled it like pros.
Well now the neighbor can stop hollering get 🙄 off my grass to look at what your boat did to my yard 😒
Wow!!!!!!!! What a sight to see!!!! bless the yacht being blown there by the Hurricane Ian and not total in pieces to recover!!!!! The weight of the yacht is so there with you saying about look bark and that going down in the canal water!!!! I hope the owners of this yacht really want this back to do additional work to restore it. Plus, paying the towing company as well!!!!! Thank you for sharing this video.
What a great video!! I couldn't even imagine how much a recovery like this costs and who pays for what?? That crane operator is not cheap, plus all the men and fuel costs, etc. They probably had to have a huge insurance bond in case they damaged the house. Does the homeowner where your boat showed up sue your insurance company for damage to the dock and yard, or is it not covered because of "Act of God". How much did it also cost to get the boat back in nice condition again? Quite an ordeal!!
Thankfully I had good insurance coverage with BoatUS/Geico. They covered all recovery costs. Repairs are not covered fully due to age of mechanical parts and 10% hurricane deductible. Unfortunately, the act of god clause does shield the insurance company from the dock damage due to no negligence by me on the boats hurricane prep.
I’ve worked on a lot of marine lifts, and you never want to submerge your deck edge. That lift was at the very limits of safety.
I feel like it would have rolled had it not been chained to the barge
Well that was a nail-biter. I'm glad everything worked out well. It looks like you're going to need a haul out. Hopefully it runs well and you can get it to a marina.
Hell of a job guys well done Marty Australia
Wow!!! Welcome to Florida i guess.. love the videos.
Wow! That was awesome. Thanks for having the patience to share the lift with all of us. Good luck with the with the following repairs.
Love the American flag standing tall
Let’s go fishing I Have Gas and Beer!!
Just curious, How much did this operation cost? I do a lot of boating in Valdez, Alaska, out into Prince William Sound and then out to the Gulf of Alaska. I almost lost a boat during a wicked storm once but I was able to save it Plus I thought I was going to die. 😂😂 Even my dog was throwing up and he grew up on the water.
Not sure what BoatUS would have charged for that as I had insurance that covered it but another crane company quoted me $20k
TBUS Ft.Lauderdale, Best in the Business
She's home! And her little flag on the bridge never stopped flying.
What's the process now? Shockingly doesn't look major for what happened. New drive shafts and props? Does insurance pay that?
Partially
hi there fun show john
They need a chain fall on the high sides so they can roll it upright.. Rookies
Wow. Nice recovery. Hull was not damaged. A miracle!!!!!.
Amazing Crew. So much could have gone wrong, seems like true Professionals! I hope all goes well for the Boast owner!
Wow...glad you are back in the water. Great job and kudos to BoatUS. I have BoatUS. All the best.
Nice job. 👏👏👍
I know there’s a lot of boats that didn’t make it . I glad to see this girl did . I’m hunting a outboard boat in the 18 to 20 foot range to salvage . Looking for a four stroke motor 100-115 horse power . I would like to fine center console , that I could rebuild the hull I have now . Could anyone tell me who I could contact for something like that ?
Keep an eye on Facebook mart place in the southwest florida area. Or Craigslist. I have seen salvage sales there.
Our Trojan F-28 was also named Happy Our's. The apostrophe was a tipped martini glass.😎🍸
We have a tipped martini glass and a champagne glass at each end of the name. 🍸🥂
Man, that was smooth, glad she’s back in the water! Who paid for that recovery, Insurance?
Insurance. BoatUS is awesome
The question is: Is insurance paying ? Or is the boat owner paying cash outa pocket ?
Insurance co's are notorious for attempting to negotiate down prices, I refuse to deal with them at all when they have tried to "beat me up" on price.
Insurance took care of it. I have boat US so no issues using their towboat crew.
Great job! Crazy angle on that crane!
Was this considered a tow or part of the unlimited package for $135.00? I would think not ; )
I’m insured with them also. Not sure which covered handles that. Liability or tow.
That crane noise is just the “safety lock” locking and unlocking at each safety point ( gear tooth). It’s done so that even if that crane lost all hydraulic pressure your boat can’t come crashing to the ground, in fact, it would be stuck hanging in the air until they fix the crane.
Great info! I was thinking that but wasn’t sure. Thanks!
I am happy for you she is back in the water and floating... those guys are awesome they did a great job.
Glad you paid you annual dues to Tow Boat USA.
I actually laughed when you said “I don’t like the sound of that” and hoping it didn’t damage the boat further…. She got tossed on land… I don’t think it would make a huge difference at this point 🤣
Luckily the noise was just the strap settling. Lol
I don't know why a crane operator would let his rigor stand right there in a pinch point next to his outrigger like that when he's listing that far.. the guy had no business being there. Also I imagine your listing chart probably ate up your capacity chart pretty fast at that degree of list. Did you turn the key?
Boat ran fine.
In your narration you have not addressed the stability factor at all. The crane may have a rated lifting capacity, BUT, it is on a floating platform which can make it very unstable. Watch the wet water line on the barge change in your vid. Also the fact that you did not necessarily "move " the barge as you described, but you left one spud down and rotated the barge on that spud, helped sustain the stability of the crane on barge scenario. One has to assume Tow Boat US had a naval engineer overseeing this operation. It was not just pull up with your barge and pluck a boat off the beach. Good lift! well done!
Wifey and I are patiently saving for our boat. This nail bitter has me totally convinced to invest in a TowBoatUS plan. Wow. Thank you for sharing. Just Subscribed.
Did you pay your neighbor for the yard "storage"? OMG, LOL... nice to see it wet again. Nice Boat!! Good luck!
I like how the majority of the neighbor's boats were just fine and docked and yours floated away so easily.... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........... If I was your neighbor, I would be a little pissed.
I was docked at a neighbors property while waiting for my dock to be completed. Unfortunately, my dock wasn’t completed before the hurricane and the dock I was at had no piling cleats and the lines pulled off the top when the short 3’ piling was submerged in the flood.
Every boat on my canal was damaged somewhat. Some sunk at the dock, some floated thru their canopy and damaged radar, ttop and tubing and some bent shafts and damaged hulls when the boats settled off the lifts bunks. It was a war zone here.
🤣🤣Wouldn't it have been better to pull that drain plug to let the water out..
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Well done Tow Boat US..
No drain plug on a 341 meridian.
Im chillin at my brothers house in Daytona Beach…overlooking a cool waterway. Stumbled back onto this video, this day! Just Wow.
Back in the saddle , Livin Life🇺🇸⚓️
Absolutely uninsurable operation
Man i bet they are just insanely busy right now
Great to see her back in the water. 🌴
Next time you'll secure your boat better huh. Try doubling your dock lines 😉
I’ll be at my own dock so yes
Yay! So glad Happy Ours was recovered! TowBoat US did a great job, kudos to them and also your skillset. Be looking for to the repairs and I bet you can't wait to get it done so you can get out there. Hopefully you guys never have a hurricane like Ian again! On the positive side after the big trip to Cape Coral, it is probably good you will get the props, axels, keels, and underside cleaned up.
I’m so glad I held off on changing cutlass bearings and shaft seals! Now they will get done.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs Sometimes things work out for the best.