Floating Freely

[OG-TERROR]

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Boat owners are abandoning ship.

Brett Flashnick for The New York Times
Gary Santos, a Mount Pleasant, S.C., councilman, checks a state notice on a forsaken sailboat.
They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they casually ditch the vessels in the middle of busy harbors, beach them at low tide on the banks of creeks or occasionally scuttle them outright.

Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01boats.html

 

[Bigredmariner]

From my 20+ year career on the water I have learned one thing; Boats of any size are just holes in the water to pour money into.

 

[Alljackedup408]

I know these people can sell there boats.. idiots. If you cant get your asking price... go low... its better than nothing at all. and insurance fraud.. thats risky biz.

 

[Draenor]

I know these people can sell there boats.. idiots. If you cant get your asking price... go low... its better than nothing at all. and insurance fraud.. thats risky biz.

...Cut 'yer losses ans get rid of it.

 

[Moeman]

I know these people can sell there boats.. idiots. If you cant get your asking price... go low... its better than nothing at all. and insurance fraud.. thats risky biz.

...Cut 'yer losses ans get rid of it.

's.

Sad really.

 

[Mixedbreed]

I know these people can sell there boats.. idiots. If you cant get your asking price... go low... its better than nothing at all. and insurance fraud.. thats risky biz.

...Cut 'yer losses ans get rid of it.

's.

Sad really.

you lose too much with the fraud biz.

 

[Carolinaboy]

GOSH S.C.

I guarantee you all those water heads don't even know how to run, manage, or work on their boats. We have a lot of people around here (we are 1.5hours from MT. Pleasant) that just buy boats and they set in their yards! They think since they live near the water it's easy to have a boat and go out on the water.........WRONG

 

[daddy]

GOSH S.C.

I guarantee you all those water heads don't even know how to run, manage, or work on their boats. We have a lot of people around here (we are 1.5hours from MT. Pleasant) that just buy boats and they set in their yards! They think since they live near the water it's easy to have a boat and go out on the water.........WRONG

I work with a guy from Mt. Pleasant and just today he "jokingly" offered to give me his boat. He's one of those guys who owns it and knows nothing about it, so he's over it.

 

[Carolinaboy]

take it

 

[daddy]

take it

I told him if he was ever serious, I'd have my dad roll down from Charlotte and grab it for me. There's a chance, albeit not a large one.