Luv your channel. Keep up the good work. It’s one of the best ways to see the local progress in what was paradise and will be again. I’ve lived through earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, massive snow/rain storms that create emergencies, death and destruction. It’s part of life but it’s how you take on the challenge that matters. This will result in bigger and better things including better construction laws. Especially along the coast.
It will take years for all of them to be surveyed, repaired and re-floated, assuming they can be. Financial pressures may cause many to be destroyed or abandoned.
I live in Cape Coral Florida, not far from ft Myers Beach. ( used to live there also). All of us on the coast here in South West Florida took a beating. But, you know what? After every hurricane, we co.e back, BIGGER, BETTER, STRONGER!! Hurricane Ian has nothing on us!!
They pulled the bouys because they had no way to service the boats that parked there. They were mostly boats that the homeless lived in. When we would boat in that area we would see toilet paper floating around with garbage from the homeless.
I keep wondering about that sailboat on the sandbar next to the mooring field. It doesn't look like it would be that hard to drag it off at high tide (assuming it doesn't have some big hole in the hull.) The rudder looks like it has a protective keg. I'm assuming they don't have insurance, or it would have already been picked up and moved by a crane. Great video! Thanks!
Some boats are not accessible due to shallow waters or too far in the mangroves. Many are just too big for available cranes. Many may need to be cut up and carted away in place. If you don’t have insurance,the price tag for this have many boaters just walking away.
Most of the boats belonged to homeless people that just took them over when the owners abandoned them. There was one sail boat that had capsized and it cost us $29,000 to have it removed. When I say " us" I mean the island so it was our tax dollars that had to pay for it.
To all of those asking the first sailboat was mine. And I say was because the state made us sign it over to them. There are no wreckers to remove it off the shoal. We had full coverage insurance on it. There is nothing we can do and we are so so heartbroken for everyone’s loss. We were full time living on that sailboat. It was the best time of my life me my husband and our two year old son.
So here is the thing that most people do not know. Most of those boats that were parked in that area before the hurricane were abandoned boats that homeless took over. They lived in the boats and then would go to the Chapel by the Sea for 2 meals a day, showers, hair cuts, medical,etc. There was an abandoned sail boat a few years back that hap capsized and it cost our town $29,000 to have it removed. Iy was a cheap way for them to live and had all the services they need. Now their "homes" are gone so they will have to go around finding abandoned boats to live in again. In a few months, there will be a new "fleet" of dilapidated boats moored out there again. I already saw one POS show up that looks like some old tour boat. Cape Coral kicked them all out of their area a couple years ago and we got all of them.
Learning a lesson, hmmmmmmm you mean like living in Florida, where we have FREEDOM, or are you concerned, that a few hundred boats remain, in fact these are LONG issue insurance claims, which if you're so inclined, to research instead of being a huffy liberal and probably oblivious to a conservative point of perspective, you'd open your eyes, close your ears and have some patience. Water is a bit more challenging, but land has it's faults too, because that's where the complainers live as they look out on to the sea!
Luv your channel. Keep up the good work. It’s one of the best ways to see the local progress in what was paradise and will be again. I’ve lived through earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, massive snow/rain storms that create emergencies, death and destruction. It’s part of life but it’s how you take on the challenge that matters. This will result in bigger and better things including better construction laws. Especially along the coast.
Thank you.
After looking at video, it will take years for all those boats to be cleared!
It will take years for all of them to be surveyed, repaired and re-floated, assuming they can be. Financial pressures may cause many to be destroyed or abandoned.
The big boats are shrimp boats. The small boats that were moored out where homeless people's boats.
I live in Cape Coral Florida, not far from ft Myers Beach. ( used to live there also). All of us on the coast here in South West Florida took a beating. But, you know what? After every hurricane, we co.e back, BIGGER, BETTER, STRONGER!! Hurricane Ian has nothing on us!!
Truth!!
Do you know if they pulled all the mooring field bouys or did they wash away? Safe to anchor there?
I guess I haven't paid attention but they should still be there. Not washed away.
They pulled the bouys because they had no way to service the boats that parked there. They were mostly boats that the homeless lived in. When we would boat in that area we would see toilet paper floating around with garbage from the homeless.
I keep wondering about that sailboat on the sandbar next to the mooring field. It doesn't look like it would be that hard to drag it off at high tide (assuming it doesn't have some big hole in the hull.) The rudder looks like it has a protective keg. I'm assuming they don't have insurance, or it would have already been picked up and moved by a crane. Great video! Thanks!
Thanks, would have to see it at high tide. I'm guessing it has a hole or else it would have floated off.
Maybe a helicopter would lift it to dry ground… 😮
I suspect there are way too few salvage rigs in the entire state to make a dent in this.
@@davidoetting1551 , yep, probably so.
Are these sandbars always been here? Or is this a result of the hurricane?
This one has always been there.
Why doesn’t the state force the owners to come get their boat?
How many salvage operations do you think there are? This job up and down the coast will last a long time and be delayed by litigation.
Some boats are not accessible due to shallow waters or too far in the mangroves. Many are just too big for available cranes. Many may need to be cut up and carted away in place. If you don’t have insurance,the price tag for this have many boaters just walking away.
It's a state clean up now.
And where do you think these funds come from ? Your tax dollars....! If you are inclined to pay more taxes I'm sure more can be done.
Most of the boats belonged to homeless people that just took them over when the owners abandoned them. There was one sail boat that had capsized and it cost us $29,000 to have it removed. When I say " us" I mean the island so it was our tax dollars that had to pay for it.
To all of those asking the first sailboat was mine. And I say was because the state made us sign it over to them. There are no wreckers to remove it off the shoal. We had full coverage insurance on it. There is nothing we can do and we are so so heartbroken for everyone’s loss. We were full time living on that sailboat. It was the best time of my life me my husband and our two year old son.
So sorry to hear that.
So here is the thing that most people do not know. Most of those boats that were parked in that area before the hurricane were abandoned boats that homeless took over. They lived in the boats and then would go to the Chapel by the Sea for 2 meals a day, showers, hair cuts, medical,etc. There was an abandoned sail boat a few years back that hap capsized and it cost our town $29,000 to have it removed. Iy was a cheap way for them to live and had all the services they need. Now their "homes" are gone so they will have to go around finding abandoned boats to live in again. In a few months, there will be a new "fleet" of dilapidated boats moored out there again. I already saw one POS show up that looks like some old tour boat. Cape Coral kicked them all out of their area a couple years ago and we got all of them.
There was a marina there. And boats blew every where.
Why do they always seem to shoot these videos at siesta time?
What?
I hope some of those boats in the mangroves live to sail another day!
Me too!
Unfathomable catastrophe.
Worst thing I ever went through
Those that owned them must pay for their removal. Soon. Should be adding fines by now.
It's up to FEMA and FWC to remove them now.
If one can't afford to have the boat recovered how is a fine going to be paid....?
Yes
Good luck with that
And help pay for the clean-up of all the debris scattered from those boats. All that stuff too is all yours.
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If you don't like Florida, why are you lurking around watching the videos?
No. DeSantis is putting the "duh" back in Florida.
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Paradise? This will happen again, and sooner than anyone wants to believe. Seems like no one has learned a lesson yet!
You can predict the future? You know nothing.
Yes, the beach life can become an obsessive fool's gold.
Learning a lesson, hmmmmmmm you mean like living in Florida, where we have FREEDOM, or are you concerned, that a few hundred boats remain, in fact these are LONG issue insurance claims, which if you're so inclined, to research instead of being a huffy liberal and probably oblivious to a conservative point of perspective, you'd open your eyes, close your ears and have some patience. Water is a bit more challenging, but land has it's faults too, because that's where the complainers live as they look out on to the sea!
Eeewwwww! What's that smell?