You remember navigation error steal yacht PINGVIN
around Island Head Creek.Fatally stuck on the beach.




A few attempts to refloat by creew was unsuccessful.
Sometimes later, perhaps more than a month, a local consortium took
a twin screw ketch CORAL ADVENTURE to help to refloat Pingvin

A few days attempt fail and Coral Adventure deposit himself nicely next to Pingvin





Most of the crew returned home and the owner refloat Coral Adventure two weeks late.
Pingvin was offered for sale on Gumtree for $ 10,000.



Pingvin was eventually sold for five dollars.

I could get Pingvin afloat again for $ 20,000 if anyone's intrested!

I was gunna pack my sleeping bag, some bait, mozzy net, eighteen cartons of beer and a loaf of bread and go live on it where she lays.

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brizzydave said..
I was gunna pack my sleeping bag, some bait, mozzy net, eighteen cartons of beer and a loaf of bread and go live on it where she lays.

18 cartons will only last 18 days !
2 days and 20k I will have her floating no worries!

How southace....how!!!! ?

Sad to see someone's dream end up like this.

We stopped to have a look on our way north a few months ago, and it's actually a bit difficult to imagine the scenario that caused the grounding. She has ended up a long way from the creek entrance.

Came past again a week or so ago on our return - we didn't have a close look this time, but she seems to be in much the same place.

1x 16 meter landing barge.
2x Yanmar 6LP-STE @ 235 KW each.
1x 25 tonn excavator.
2x cartons of crownies.

We can be there in 48 hours weather permitting.

If they can tow the Pasha Bulker off a little yacht shouldn't cause too many problems.

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southace said..
1x 16 meter landing barge.
2x Yanmar 6LP-STE @ 235 KW each.
1x 25 tonn excavator.
2x cartons of crownies.

We can be there in 48 hours weather permitting.

come on owners / or insurance co , take this price , or any one, sell it for 22 k and you've made 10 percent , south ace you should do it !!

it's not a ocean-liner, just a litle yacht and soft sand

a barge from Rosslyn Bay, a couple of thousands,
and a bobcat , a few hundreds
guess job done

I'm only kidding here, but my operator dudes always say "get the biggest machine you can for the job?"

With all the defense force up playing games in the area , you think they could of made an exercise out of floating her!

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Charriot said..

You remember navigation error steal yacht PINGVIN
around Island Head Creek.Fatally stuck on the beach.




A few attempts to refloat by creew was unsuccessful.
Sometimes later, perhaps more than a month, a local consortium took
a twin screw ketch CORAL ADVENTURE to help to refloat Pingvin

A few days attempt fail and Coral Adventure deposit himself nicely next to Pingvin





Most of the crew returned home and the owner refloat Coral Adventure two weeks late.
Pingvin was offered for sale on Gumtree for $ 10,000.



Pingvin was eventually sold for five dollars.

It is quite a shame that it has gotten to this stage. It went up there on a tide so one can assume it could come off on a tide.

The tide on this full moon today/tonight has one of the biggest ranges for the year. If they do not get her off in the next 36 hours, the next window of opportunity is 22/11/2014 and not as good as this time now.

Given that the yacht has been there for some time now ( 2 or 3 months ), the state of the yacht market (multi chine steel yachts are a dina a dozen), Southace's offer of getting her off for $20,000 is not worth considering.

No doubt his contract would read "all efforts applied but no guarantee given".