![]() He told me 28 other boats had sunk along that stretch of the River Ouse, nearly all of them due to owners faults such as not turning off seacocks or not greasing the seals. The insurance assessor was brilliant as it had been such a freak incident. ![]() My brand new, unused bath, sofa, 3 Eberspacher heaters and much more, were victims, as can be seen.Ī mammoth task lay ahead, so I booked a trip to Gambia three months ahead, to give me something to look forward to. It’s difficult to even tell which way up the photos should be. ![]() The photographs show my lounge, bedroom and bathroom and kitchen/wheelhouse. Water was pumped out as the balloons raised it and then the devastation could be seen. Lifting took two days due to difficulties with feeding straps under the boat due to substantial depths of silt. Thankfully the boat didn’t roll off the ‘shelf’ into much deeper water alongside the boat. We could not get a crane close enough so we had to use inflatable balloons, costing £4,500. It was New Year and we had made new plans to lift her but the floods came the day before the work was set to take place. In the marina, depths of ice that were 750mm thick prevented us being able to lift the boat before Christmas. Unfortunately, we missed the two funnels for the anchor and did not succeed. The temperature was minus 4 degrees, with the river frozen the full width across! We hired five 3 and 4″ pumps, made holes through my new twenty-five year guaranteed rubber roof covering and tried to pump out more water than could get in – see photo. The first picture is of my boat underwater when I returned, with my roof garden and a few remaining plants, bike-wheel and lifebelt, which wasn’t much help!Ī few days later, we had a diver plug all holes, door and window reveals. Read the first part of Pete’s story here > Read the first part of Pete’s story here >.
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