Ep. 29 - The Death of a Boat

[@tedthesailor172]

Interesting video. A boatyard owner I was speaking to a few months ago said that in his experience, about 60% of the boats occupying hard-standing in his yard were "hobby boat". By this he meant that they'd never likely go back in the water, but were each just an irregular weekend retreat for their owners to come and tinker and dream, and chat with others...

[@sailinglabrisa]

We have seen a few "hobby boats" and a few that will actually hit the water again. Boatyards are interesting places!

[@svhopalong]

That is a really an excellent video, Trudy. Good film, dramatic events, perspective on the sailing life and sometimes how it ends. Keep up the great work. Cheers. Dave

[@sailinglabrisa]

Thanks Dave! Hope everything is going well with you and Sally.

[@denymontoya6782]

Wow great job on your channel I watched all videos nonstop today can’t wait for the next one It looks like a good place to be working on your boat nice people and reasonable prices good luck

[@dickarbot9283]

Lee and Trudy awesome video, glad you're back. Looking forward

[@liongod1000]

Hi Lee, Trudy and Blondie, nice to have you back. Yep, it is Very sad to see sailing vessels on the hard and especially when they're left to 'Die'. I for one would love to even own a boat like so many of them there and do what the two of you are doing..... Fixing Up. Looking so forward to your launch day. Greetings from a very drought stricken Cape Town, South Africa.

[@sailinglabrisa]

Hi Robert, those boats do exert a pull and if we had a lot of time and money it would be fun to fix up boats. But it is high time for us to hit the water. We have been reading about Cape Town's dire situation. Let us know how you fare.

[@deafmusician2]

First time viewer, nice narration and video work! Sub! Old boats are as sad as old neglected airplanes....once proud...

[@neilarrowsmith3887]

Thank's you guys, I am enjoying your videos. Good on you both and smooth sailing!

[@RobFomenko]

Great vlog Trudy ! I too love wandering around looking at old boats. It is sad when they are no longer respected and loved, and put out to pasture to die, but its the inevitable wheel of life. All things must pass, even steel and fiberglass boats.... Some will live on with owners that can see the value in them, who, like you and Lee, put a increadable amount of time, money and love into the restoration, some just fade away. But, I would take a old classic over new plastic anyday !

[@thomasarussellsr]

Ripped at my gut a bit when that steel boat fell to the oxy-acetylene scalpel. Nice video, except for that horrifying part. However, thank you for sharing and honoring the end of life of a boat that few get to see.

[@patbrown2227]

Excellent job of managing the wind noise. Great technical recording!

[@williamgottlieb8723]

About twenty years ago,there was an old, crumbling boat launch in New Jersey that had three big wooden yachts on it for what seemed like decades. They were all 50+ feet, a Chris Craft and other makes I didn't recognize that were all dry rotted. The regular group of guys that would gather there for a few hours on evenings and weekends managed, to make them disappear. Between general conversation, throwing crab nets into the water and drinking a couple of beers, they pried each boat apart piece by piece and burned the wood in a single 55 gallon steel drum. The one guy who always collected the empty beer cans took any pieces of metal hardware that was left. They finished one boat before going to the next, and in less than two months there was no sign that they were ever there. It was much better than having them sit there going nowhere for the rest of time.

[@bobwarren3898]

An interesting new twist for old sailboat use in the US is to dig a hole and bury them for use as storm shelters. The hulls and deck seem to lend themselves well to this alternate life, as they're designed to withstand the pressures of the sea, and burying them insures they won't blow away in a storm.

[@richarddalmau5295]

Nice documentary..... Kept my attention and watched the video entirely....

[@captainlee1]

Good writing and reading loved it....thanks...Cap.

[@MyMIXmedia]

Looks like they live on their boat in the storage yard. I wonder what they pay in yearly fees to store their boat plus have permission to live in the yard.

[@sailinglabrisa]

For our boat (a 35 footer) it is $136 to store. When we were there working on the boat it was an additional $5 per day (for two people) and a further $10 per day if an air conditioner was being used.

[@stewtube1240]

Do you know the make and model of the sailboat at the 4:40 mark of this video ? Thank you

[@KLSatHome]

stew tube it looks a bit like a Rawson 30 shown at the 2:24 mark of the video. I am only guessing though!

[@wyattfamily8997]

An interesting, and different, view of sailing life. It's sad to see some of these beautiful boats being destroyed, thought the fact they gave pleasure during their life and are being recycled is, I guess, some value. From Australia

[@donalexander2480]

Great video Lee and Trudy. Thank You. Any Idea what a person can buy a boat in your area for? Does the person you dealt with have a website of available vessels? Thanks for the nice boatyard tour, its fun seeing things through your eyes. Great edit... loved the funeral dirge music, nice touch...LOL. Best to you and hope you splash soon!

[@sailinglabrisa]

The prices of boats run the whole gamut. We found our boat through a listing on yacht world. If you are interested in any of the abandoned boats here in the yard the best contact would be the yard owner, Gabriel Larios, through the Facebook page for Marina Guaymas. I have heard of some great buys, but it seems the buyer has to be in the right place at the right time and willing to do a lot of work!

[@bondiola09]

those boats are for sale? or its structures no longer allow safe navigation?

[@davidsanders1991]

I am sad and depressed without this video.

[@mrbradgeary]

Where in Mexico is this yard?

[@mrbradgeary]

Never mind. Found Guaymas Sanora in the comments

[@sailinglabrisa]

It is Marina Guaymas - www.marinaguaymas.com/

[@gordbaker896]

A very interesting video. "The idea of Owning a boat and Owning a boat are two very different paths."

[@inyobill]

You alluded to this, but it appears to me that the keel/rudder design protects the rudder better than on some other designs.

[@stinkintoad]

Love your videos.

[@NPCSN]

That's so sad to watch. So many people throwing these boats away while I'm over here tightening the belt to save up for a boat...

[@tomjeffersonwasright2288]

I recently helped part out a sail boat. The owner told me top take what I want for free. I got good stuff, but felt sorrow with every line cut, with every screw unfastened.

[@sailinglabrisa]

I know what you mean.

[@amarieshearer7613]

Watch them to 29 in one day! Can’t wait to see it sale!

[@michaeltillman1147]

Heart-wrenching. But a fact of life. As a boat yard owner I'd stay in the poor house trying to fix up those old beauty's.

[@sailinglabrisa]

I totally agree with you. Some boats are totally beyond reasonable repair. All the same it's sad to see them cut up.

[@RichardEricCollins]

If a boat has had a good life with a lot of miles under it's belt then it's not that sad to see it go. What I find sad is boats that don't get used. Spend most of their time waiting for the two weeks of the year that they are used. Being taken to the next marina along the coast and then back again to be put on the hard for another year. These are the boats that have not lived a life. I understand that I, and we all do, anthropomorphise these boats but I like to think a boat that has sailed around the world has had a good life and is happy when it's time comes. From an environmental view, it's a terrible waste of resources, just as is owning a car. And so I feel we have a duty to minimise this by making sure the boat, car or any other luxury item, last as long as possible and to being well used. :) Nice video thanks for sharing.

[@tuckerin36]

Richard Collins in

[@tuckerin36]

Richard Collins nii

[@Jimmy_in_Mexico]

I just found your channel. I subbed. I live in the mountains of Sonora and have been many times to Guaymas. I am a diesel mechanic and welder. I have carpentry tools and speak Spanish fluently. In your observations, do you think there is work for someone like me there? I was a helicopter mechanic in the US Navy. I am familiar with fiberglass and painting. Just seems like this would be a great place to work.

[@Rooneycgs]

Is it just me or is that yard really clean?

[@bondiola09]

What a pain to see that steel helmet as it was destroyed in an istante ...

[@SV-DEDICATED]

Sailing La Brisa is one of my favorite sailing channels. ⚓⚓⚓⚓

[@sailinglabrisa]

Thanks! We appreciate your encouragement!

[@aldoacitelli]

Very nice

[@Pasovineyard]

You know I am subscribed to this channel, but have not seen any videos for months.

[@sailinglabrisa]

I don't know why KZbin doesn't let you know when there is a new video. We are up to Episode 48 and I try to publish at least one or more a month.

[@fontaineking5158]

Make a ok cabin, set on blocks back in the woods.

[@philh3178]

Ironic that the boat being broken up was a Spray replica, the boat that carried boating legend Joshua Slocum around the world, the first solo circumnavigator.

[@rivernet62]

Phil H and known as “the father of cruising!” He ostensibly did it for leisure. And to make ‘natives’ holler with tacks in their feet ;)

[@lindamiles8163]

Hello Trudy nd Lee. Love your viedos. You asked where we live. Fountain Hills, AZ. 20 min from Phoenix. Near Scottsdale. My email is: [e-mail]. Let's keep in touch. You have a lot of projects on the boat and we don't want to interrupt you, so feel free to contact us when you are in our area and we will come to you. Best wishes to you both.🤗🐠🦀

[@geoffbendall9519]

No no Phil H, that boat is nothing like a "Spray" of even close replica. Totally different shape in every respect.

[@theislandpackrat]

I never understand why the owners don't advertise the boat's before they get so bad. So many always going down there.

[@sailinglabrisa]

I have heard a multitude of reasons, but I would imagine they are the same the world over - owners expecting to come back or an unrealistic estimation of the boat's worth.

[@inyobill]

... illness, no heirs, or heirs not aware of the existence, with a little effort we could probably come up with more.

[@jimmygrant3212]

theislandpackrat no one wants old sailboats. It’s impossible to get rid of an old sale boat even for cheap.

[@MrHradecky]

Heart breaking seeing boats destroyed.

[@sailinglabrisa]

Yes it is.

[@irgski]

Interesting

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

So sad watching the boat being rudely destroyed. Looks as if it could have saved and used relatively easy!?

[@sailinglabrisa]

I know steel boats require constant maintenance, but at least when they are cut up the steel is reused. What is particularly sad is seeing a fiberglass boat being destroyed especially a boat that could have had a future life...

[@fontaineking5158]

Sailing La Brisa took to the woods and made into cabins. Lady around were i Iive made a beauty saloon in her backyard out of a old sailboat. Pretty cool.

[@fontaineking5158]

Sailing La Brisa all the nautical things that are on a boat sell well.

[@1yachtcarpenter]

Good job Lady>> Subbed and Thumbed..

[@chokedup53]

sad tale, the steel boat deconstructed because the elderly owner abandoned it. i guess the boat must have had other unstated issues, otherwise the owner would have sold it for another cruiser to enjoy. i would have thought that a true sailor would have "gifted" the boat so that it could continue to sail the seas for another adventurous person.

[@sailinglabrisa]

Your observations are probably correct, there are usually underlying problems or because the owner originally had an unrealistic expectation of the asking price, the boat developed issues staying on the hard for a long period.

[@dnomyarnostaw]

So many boats are "dead" as soon as an owner without enough health or money buys it. Then, that owner can't bring themselves to sell it again for a realistic price, so it sits for years weathering in the sun.

[@gregster4994]

Having owned a couple of sailboats, I can attest to the fact that there's NEVER enough money!

[@knot4real]

Ray Watson I bet no ones quite as good as you

[@chrisparlow6282]

Ray Watson --- their morons lv seen far to many of them. Stupid people.

[@gabrielbarrios2740]

good day I'm from Uruguay I'm looking for a 40-foot sailboat their videos are very nice and I would like to know if you can send me some mail from the marina where they are, to know if there are any for sale. Thank you very much and continue with this lifestyle. Gabriel

[@sailinglabrisa]

Hi Gabriel, all of the footage was taken at Marina Guaymas. Most of the boats are actively owned, only the boats that I showed up against the fence are considered derelict. You can contact Marina Guaymas through their Facebook page.

[@gabrielbarrios2740]

what joy your answer. I hope you are having a great time and specifying all your projects. I tell you, I'm not looking for an abandoned sailboat. I want a sailboat that with a little affection I can bring it to South America. if you saven of some owner who wants to sell you would like to pass my mail. [e-mail] I will also communicate with the Guaymas marina again thank you very much and go ahead with your projects. Gabriel

[@funsweed]

We have a problem with derelict boats here on the west coast of BC , tax payers end up paying to have these garbage vessels removed, cost tax payers $$$$$$ every year

[@tellmesomething2go]

seems so stupid to cut up those boats. probably plenty of people would pay something for them

[@tellmesomething2go]

what`s critter-dog up to. lookin for a snack, as usual.

[@ReefOU812]

VERY SAD!!! If anyone wants to get rid of their boat ( preferably a wide beam around 38 to 44 feet) (2 cats and a dog if you are wondering), I would gladly take it! Even if it needed a six months of my blood sweat and more blood... and more sweat... Cheers !

[@sailingsvteakkeyrandyfryli8206]

Very interesting nice video thank you....S/V Teak Key

[@sailinglabrisa]

Thanks!

[@juliapetties3626]

05:05 04:10 06:25

[@fredbalster3100]

That is sad.

[@martinsachs3837]

sorry guys, just one of those not so nice to look at steel boats in totally horrible condition. absolutely no regrets on my side, one less boat that traps people looking for a bargain ending up in a hopeless refit.

[@davidpethick83]

,dogs on boats, have done it, cruel punishment so out of their comfort zone

[@davidsanders1991]

Comparing rudder shapes sounds a little kinky.

[@ДжоБлэк-ш5у]

Какое варварство . Не ужели нельзя её продать . Может кто нибудь её бы восстановил.

[@rustybrowneye]

Im pooping right now

[@timpani1950]

Apparently, they forgot to stock toothpaste on board. Yikes, fix the yellow fangs.

[@sailingceltic1911]

kind of sad

[@sailinglabrisa]

I agree.

[@vovatreschun6874]

Плачу.

[@shipskepr1]

how sad

[@davidsanders1991]

Whay is the point of this video???

[@jamesallan5278]

M,8

[@cristianomonteiro6432]

Hai mai name cristiano ok

[@knot4real]

The story of a boats demise, seems to result in various ways just like a human life, unfortunately however more often than not ,the human need for another mans property results in the object of desire being destroyed.the amount of retired people that have spent there entire life in a secure government position nestled in a life with regular income a pension scheme and a guaranteed release date far outnumber able bodied capable seamen trying to live a life that is there’s to live, not there to buy. I know there are useless people living on great boats but that applies to the retired more than not , the ability to pay for something has no real relevance on seaman ship in my opinion the biggest obstacle is greedy opportunistic retired people who think ,they are thirty years younger than they are,trying to chase a dream that long ago left when they where half way through paying for a land locked house in a suburb.

[@knot4real]

The story of a boats demise, seems to result in various ways just like a human life, unfortunately however more often than not ,the human need for another mans property results in the object of desire being destroyed.the amount of retired people that have spent there entire life in a secure government position nestled in a life with regular income a pension scheme and a guaranteed release date far outnumber able bodied capable seamen trying to live a life that is there’s to live, not there to buy. I know there are useless people living on great boats but that applies to the retired more than not , the ability to pay for something has no real relevance on seaman ship in my opinion the biggest obstacle is greedy opportunistic retired people who think ,they are thirty years younger than they are,trying to chase a dream that long ago left when they where half way through paying for a land locked house in a suburb.