Yes, everyone has problems
 

I finally got the California Blood Tax paid on my car yesterday and got the plates, I took it down to Doheney to take a picture, look over the top right,
this boat washed ashore Friday, someone sure screwed up. The tide hasn't been high enough to float it.
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Pictures today, opposite view, I wonder if the state has a parking fee for this.

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Looks like a yak in the earlier pix on the bow...don't see it on the later ones. I could use either of the zodiacs;)

Always loved those Z3 'wagons'. Very unique.

i thought that the melting polar ice caps would have fixed that problem.

Love that Z3!

Just gonna take a few thousand more years. 5000 years ago Iowa was covered with Ice so it just may happen.

How's that Z3.0?

all the ice in my glass of ice water melted....how come the counter is still dry?

sorry but you boat is still beached guess you didnt need to make that prius purchase too

What a great opportunity to replace all of the through-hulls and a bottom cleaning. Kind of like careening as the pirates way back yon arrrrrrrrrr.
I like the car, nice color red.

Yeah, I went by it a few times today and the hull is still dirty, maybe they won't let them clean it on the beach. Or, they could put tarps around it and clean it. I will check it again tomorrow.

less boat, more car, WTF dude

The ice was floating in the water in the glass.
Not all of the Polar ice is floating. Most of it is on land (Greenland, Antarctica)

I suspect the boat won't be worth much if the owner has to wait for the ice caps to melt.

Les

Yes, still waiting for the big Ice Melt, high tide came and went, the boat didn't float. Boat guys, I think I would have paid a Tug to sit out there with a long line and when the tide came in, tried to pull it off. Yes/No?
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LOL

Imagine the owner coming back the next day and finding a parking ticket attached to the bow.

I'd expect that from CA.

Probably a citation for littering the beach too.

looked like a beautiful day for a boat ride..

I talked to the ranger today, he said it got loose from it's mooring off shore Friday, nobody on board, the state doesn't want to touch it and has been giving the owner a lot of leeway to get it off. They may bring out a big backhoe and try to dig a channel for the next high tide. I don't have enough money to even think of getting into a problem like this. I owned a 14 foot Valco when I lived in Costa Rica, biggest boat I have had.

My BIL fell asleep and grounded his 30' sailboat near La Jolla. They gave him 24hrs to get rid of it. Had to bring in an excavator that smashed it and loaded the remains on to several trucks. It cost him $35K. Last I heard I think he's gotten his insurance company to pay.

That's what I was just thinking as I was reading this thread, dig a trench and float it out!

Holy Ouch!!! That hurts.

In college a buddy had a 14' or 18' Kris craft. We gong caught trying to camp on a small island in Tampa bay. A huge storm came in. The boat almost floated away, but a bunch of us pulled it as high as we could get it. The next morning, there were a bunch of feet of dry beach between the back of the boat and the water. Between lots of digging (by hand, IIRC) and lots of pushing and pulling, we managed to get it floating again. This boat looks a tad bigger.

I remember leaving Nantucket on the ferry at the end of my honeymoon. Perched on top of the breakwater (like God had reached down and put it there) was a motorboat about 35' long. Must have been some sort of party up until that moment for them.

Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
The Skipper brave and sure,
Five passengers set sail that day,
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost.
The Minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore
Of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too.
The millionaire
And his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.

So this is the tale of our castaways,
They're here for a long long time.
They'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.

The first mate and his Skipper too
Will do their very best,
To make the others comf'terble
In their tropic island nest.

No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It's primitive as can be.

So join us here each week my friends,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castaways
Here on Gilligan's Isle!

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Here's a dead one on the beach in Lahaina

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I don't have any problems I am a WINNER...

Update, it still won't float, the ranger said today we won't have a good high tide for another week, this guy doesn't have Vessel Assist and no insurance, the Coast Guard came in the morning it beached and drained all the fluids, no way to run it now, the guy had to pay the Coast Guard on the spot for the draining. Going downhill from here. I point this out to my wife and tell her how much better cars are, I don't lose nearly as much with a car.
I asked the ranger about salvage on the boat, he said it's not abandoned, the guy visits it every day.
This morning.

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Don't be so hard on the poor thing.
Although it is a wagon, I wouldn't really call it a boat.