How I Acquired a Sunken Boat for FREE (AND Got it Running)!

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  • Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024

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  • @jimratliff2753
    @jimratliff2753 Год назад +55

    Genius rescue. If only McHale's Navy and Gilligan's Island knew you around you could have saved all these sailors!

    • @Manuel_Z_Kayaks
      @Manuel_Z_Kayaks 9 месяцев назад +1

      Ginger is the only one still alive... SHE'S 90

  • @Mike-tc8ob
    @Mike-tc8ob Год назад +34

    Gotta love free boats, they're the only way we can afford the fortune it costs owning them. Just finished turning an old, abandoned sailboat into a crabbing boat for the summer and not sure why everyone is not doing it! small sailboats can be found for free all over the place especially if they don't have a mast, but they make great motoring boats with nicer than average cabins. Dropping her in the Sasafrass Labor Day weekend for the first time she has seen water since 1991. See you out there Luke! Give me crabs or give me death!!

  • @jasonpierce8552
    @jasonpierce8552 Год назад +5

    I have watched a few of you videos before and enjoyed. But this one is my favorite. And I am officially a new subscriber. Keep doing what you are doing, very inspiring. I am glad to know there are people like you left. Gives me some hope.

  • @navykeef
    @navykeef Год назад +26

    Don’t know how this was recommended to me but watching young men troubleshooting and fixing broke stuff makes my day.

  • @scottbellisle5581
    @scottbellisle5581 Год назад +7

    Great job guys. It’s nice to see the younger generation actually do some work. You will do well and since you guys seem to get along when working there was no bickering, awesome. Keep up the good work.
    Uncle Scott

  • @scuttfarcus7278
    @scuttfarcus7278 Год назад +11

    The 2 happiest days of my boating life... when I bought it and when I sold it

    • @davecordes6121
      @davecordes6121 6 месяцев назад +3

      Agreed.. . But my wife was far more pleased than I. . .

    • @danadribnenki8774
      @danadribnenki8774 6 месяцев назад

      @@davecordes6121😢😮😊😅😂❤

  • @TheeColleenE
    @TheeColleenE Год назад +4

    You did a great job! Way to go, and hope you’re still enjoying your new boat!

  • @joshwelner1951
    @joshwelner1951 Год назад +139

    so many people underestimate the power of baling with a 5 gallon bucket

    • @dirtybootsfishing2923
      @dirtybootsfishing2923 Год назад +14

      I done bailed out a 34ft skiff with a 5gallon bucket real talk didn't take long either but had my back killing me that day I went help a friend his skiff sunk an I did that by my self told him to sit back an watch me work 😂😂😂 he was old man

    • @joshwelner1951
      @joshwelner1951 Год назад +4

      @@dirtybootsfishing2923 me to or 3 Maine lobster boats and I've lost count of lobsters skiffs under 20 foot. either way you put two three guys on a boat with buckets or plastic shrimp shovels you can move some water, yes you'll feel it next-day

    • @calebshort2169
      @calebshort2169 Год назад +4

      I know you can get a whole 5 gallons out at a time.

    • @streamin2605
      @streamin2605 Год назад +2

      A paddle can bail out alot of water too lol!!!

    • @joshwelner1951
      @joshwelner1951 Год назад

      @@streamin2605 I've never been in a situation where I needed a paddle to bail water. I'll keep that one in mind, use what you got when needed

  • @Rebar77_real
    @Rebar77_real Год назад +16

    Great work! Now you have a skiff for beer runs to keep the crab boat at sea longer. :D

  • @trueaussie3097
    @trueaussie3097 7 месяцев назад +54

    Whoever filmed this in portrait needs jail time

    • @ryanhernandez2414
      @ryanhernandez2414 5 месяцев назад

      No wonder it wouldn’t cast to my tv

    • @TehButterflyEffect
      @TehButterflyEffect 5 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed! Vertical video should be illegal.

    • @myc0p
      @myc0p 3 месяца назад

      To be viewed on the phone

    • @shauncollinson4393
      @shauncollinson4393 3 месяца назад

      ​@ryanhernandez2414 phone and or TV is shit mate. Works for me and my partner.

    • @MichaelMontgomery-o8r
      @MichaelMontgomery-o8r 2 месяца назад

      For what?

  • @markthompson9914
    @markthompson9914 Год назад +11

    Most of the boats I’ve worked on have been on the bottom at one time in their lives.
    In fact the Carol Ann was nicknamed the sub 😂✌️🇬🇧

  • @Luke_Groundwalker
    @Luke_Groundwalker Год назад +10

    Knowing you, you'll figure out a way to turn the boat into something that can make you money in the off season when you're not crabbin. Awesome pickup.

  • @Mike616Lotito
    @Mike616Lotito Год назад +4

    Heard it from boat designer Jeff Spira RIP… best bilge pump is a scared man with a 5 gallon bucket

  • @joelphow6314
    @joelphow6314 Год назад +9

    A stylish man! And all your crews make it transpire! Best wishes

  • @methods-SE
    @methods-SE Год назад +3

    That captures my feelings exactly. 😊. Most excellent find

  • @bubbamoran2964
    @bubbamoran2964 10 месяцев назад +2

    Nice find of a free boat... Good luck with it. I would fix it up too. I would love the same opportunity some day... Congrats 👏

  • @PigzHeadNz
    @PigzHeadNz Год назад +6

    Job well done.👍
    And you scored yourself a boat 🛥
    Nice!👋

  • @jennythompson1128
    @jennythompson1128 Год назад +7

    You just continue to amaze me. Thank you for the awesome videos and teaching me how to engineer things with what you have around. I have a small farm and engineering is what we do. ❤❤❤

  • @chriswebb3676
    @chriswebb3676 7 месяцев назад

    I love your sarcasm and sense of humor. You make me laugh.

  • @BadLaryRy
    @BadLaryRy Год назад +3

    I appreciate you, Capt. Thanks for the content and believe it or not the education. 🤟😎

  • @briankowalski8247
    @briankowalski8247 Год назад

    One of the best videos i have yet to see ever on you tube. Nice boat bro!

  • @DIGOLOGIST
    @DIGOLOGIST 6 месяцев назад

    I need a deal like that! What a great boat...FREE, theres no such thing! Hope you guys have a blast on it!

  • @richardburton-777
    @richardburton-777 11 месяцев назад

    It's a Most wonderful thing is to see a bunch of young millennials benefit from good old Hard WORK! And the risk reward of where there's a will there's a way! 👍😁

  • @waynep343
    @waynep343 Год назад +2

    Need to create a twin or quad pontoon boat that uses those fully retractable ladders to adjust the width between the pontoons for recovering sunken small boats.

  • @JohnSmith-fs1cg
    @JohnSmith-fs1cg 10 месяцев назад

    Awesome! Well done! I was smiling all through this video!

  • @zardoz5553
    @zardoz5553 Год назад +1

    THAT'S PERSEVERANCE LIKE THE INDIAN SAID!!!!!!!!!

  • @jhorrocks8108
    @jhorrocks8108 Год назад +1

    Captain Luke, you made the Washington Post this morning! Photos and a few paragraphs done by Carolyn Van Houten. The article is called A capital summer. One photo has this caption “Crabs are a creature about as stubborn as the people catching them,” McFadden said as he sorted them.

  • @eter4085
    @eter4085 5 месяцев назад

    Saw this on a youtube short, got interested, came to this video, this guy mentioned electrolysis and cavitation and I was like wow he's really smart I'm gonna look those things up. Just got back from a 2 hour deep dive on quantum mechanics and entanglement after steadily traversing further and further into complicated physics topics. Thanks Luke

  • @n40tom
    @n40tom Год назад +1

    I miss the Chesapeake Bay so much and all the Waterman that I befriended over the years. They are hard-working unusually hard partying group of guys. And I have found any problems that they bump into they can solve one way or the other. I was across the bay and a little bit below you guys on the Eastern Shore for almost 30 years . Take care and thanks for the video I really enjoyed it

  • @adammcgeorge3538
    @adammcgeorge3538 Год назад +2

    Stick welding aluminum is such a pain, JB weld is your friend :)

  • @Ocean_breezes
    @Ocean_breezes 8 месяцев назад

    A motor sitting in the bottom underwater. It fills with saltwater. Its amazing it started. I pulled a motor off a newly sunken boat to try to save the motor. It was totally effed. Corrosion begins immediately. The wire connections fail. Be careful with that motor or you'll find yourself stranded

  • @garyh4458
    @garyh4458 6 месяцев назад

    Cavitation is when the prop creates a vacuum behind it and it reduces the boiling point of water behind it enough to form vapor, which is very loud.
    Being air bound is something different.

  • @mikeburke8656
    @mikeburke8656 Год назад +2

    "self clearance" going in the book!

  • @mq9167
    @mq9167 Год назад

    I raised a sunken sailboat. I waited for high tide, tied a cable to a piling on one side of the boat abd ran the cable under tge boat up to a piling on the other side using a cumalong to take up the slack. When the tide went out the boat came up. I then used a rental trash water pump to get the water out. Free boat.

  • @ibbylancaster8981
    @ibbylancaster8981 Год назад +5

    Luke, having been a welder for 25 years, I can attest how much of a pain in the a$$ aluminum rods are. You done pretty good kid! Much love from NC🤙🤙

    • @Roosters_Restos
      @Roosters_Restos Год назад

      I have a spool gun for that welding or a tig. Never in 50yrs have I used a stick lol I have used a torch back in the day.

  • @davidkeeton6716
    @davidkeeton6716 Год назад

    Now that you are in the marine salvage business, you could convert that boat into a tow boat, and pull people back in that run out of fuel or have a mechanical issue and need a tow back to the marina or their dock. Then you could branch out with a larger boat with a derrick to swing a pump onto the deck of a boat that is sitting on the bottom but the deck is still above water.

  • @tonyv9712
    @tonyv9712 8 месяцев назад

    Those Yamaha's motor are beast, built to last. That's all I use for my boat are Yamaha and Suzuki's

  • @johnniemayfield9510
    @johnniemayfield9510 Год назад

    JB weld it works on everything metal , you just mix it up and then just spread it out on the repair you need and let it set up for 24 hrs and just grind it off and paint it ;;

  • @bensatterwhite5694
    @bensatterwhite5694 Год назад

    There are bound to be some Yamaha lower units available at local shops or boat salvage lots to replace the broken repaired one. Once the fuel system is cleared of water you should be good to go. Cool video.

  • @endo9351
    @endo9351 2 месяца назад

    5 gallons at a time boy, that's the way ya get things down. Way ta go.

  • @suehinze1566
    @suehinze1566 Год назад +8

    You sure your last name isn't Mcgyver (Macgyver)? You're always Macgyvering stuff. And it usually works. Lol😂

  • @brenturquhart7090
    @brenturquhart7090 Год назад +3

    Isn’t this repeat. I swear I seen this video before on this channel. Hey, I’m not complaining, I liked it the first time and I like it this this too.

    • @egomaniac247
      @egomaniac247 Год назад +2

      Was gonna say the same, for sure I’ve seen this before. If for no other reason I remember “I got a plan….not a good one” 😂

    • @brenturquhart7090
      @brenturquhart7090 Год назад

      @@egomaniac247 I suspect he’s got a bunch of scripts and video that he puts aside for when in need. He just forgot he used that on3 before. It was a repeat. I found the o5her one.
      The guy is burning a both ends. We’ll let it slid this once, once! Lol

  • @ElijahWheat-p2t
    @ElijahWheat-p2t Год назад

    I wanna move to the south so bad after watching this, helped a neighbor and got a free boat out of it

  • @davessparetime83
    @davessparetime83 Год назад +2

    J B Weld the rest

  • @keithridd4336
    @keithridd4336 Год назад

    Have to appreciate this young man. Great attitude

  • @youknowme8578
    @youknowme8578 Год назад +1

    If you were my son, i would be very proud of you. Smart you are, young man.👍

  • @juancalincho66
    @juancalincho66 Год назад

    congratulations, what a great job recovering the boat

  • @charlespendley6360
    @charlespendley6360 Год назад +1

    I never owned a boat. But I always heard. The best days of owning a boat is the day you buy it and then the day you sell it

  • @Ocean_breezes
    @Ocean_breezes Год назад

    Thats amazing the motor still runs
    Good job

  • @rayrieder2380
    @rayrieder2380 Год назад +1

    Nice welding job you guys! Yep time to go to the bar🍺🍻🍹😜bottoms up! Cheers🦀

  • @danshroder9389
    @danshroder9389 Год назад +2

    You guys need to make large floats , how we lift rock when searching for gold, lift the boat right up.

    • @davidkeeton6716
      @davidkeeton6716 Год назад +2

      A couple of big inner tubes tied to it, with air hoses attached, then turn on the compressor and bring it up to the point that you can pump it out. He didn't need to try and lift it with a winch.

  • @FSEVENMAN
    @FSEVENMAN Год назад

    Seems like you had the perfect crew for the perfect project good job guys it looks like a lot of fun😊

  • @TehButterflyEffect
    @TehButterflyEffect 5 месяцев назад

    Hahaha this is the same kid who made videos about making sketchy boat accessories and now he makes sketchy boats. Perfect!

  • @stevej00
    @stevej00 Год назад

    It’s nice seeing the assembly of shorts videos

  • @barryinn1778
    @barryinn1778 Год назад

    Determination, hardwork, persistence is the key!

  • @russellfredrick6519
    @russellfredrick6519 Год назад +3

    Always remember, "safety third."

  • @mesutpeynirci9568
    @mesutpeynirci9568 Год назад +1

    water must have gone into the cylinders through the exhaust pipe..

  • @gradywells4678
    @gradywells4678 Год назад +2

    Love your energy.

  • @joechristensen1177
    @joechristensen1177 Год назад +1

    Love the videos man !!!

  • @WSolar-679VT
    @WSolar-679VT Год назад

    With all the young guys there, they had to make an old man jump in the cold water..👏👏👏 bravo

  • @socalsaltwateranglers
    @socalsaltwateranglers Год назад

    Loved the content. Can't believe you got it for free! New Sub. Yeww 🤙🏻

  • @mikeanders73
    @mikeanders73 Год назад

    Good job, nice recovery.

  • @williamjavier1653
    @williamjavier1653 Год назад

    Key West pirates salute you . A damn fine adventure men . Well done ....

  • @johnatyoutube
    @johnatyoutube Год назад

    I'm Impressed! Let me know if Lindsey is coming up Stoney Creek and I'll wave.

  • @madeleinejohnston4790
    @madeleinejohnston4790 7 месяцев назад

    WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GIFT YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH FROM ALMIGHTY GOD,
    WELL DONE

  • @gzus1482
    @gzus1482 2 месяца назад +1

    @1:25 you need the untangler🔪 ?
    @1:32 cant tie a knot, tie a lot.
    😂😂😂
    It writes itself

  • @allardfeberwee8913
    @allardfeberwee8913 Год назад

    Nice to see teamwork pays off 😊

  • @hogroamer260
    @hogroamer260 Год назад

    7:28 - Always heard you should "check" your trailer tires. You're all set now!

  • @Jamie.W
    @Jamie.W Год назад

    I got a free boat and jet ski, restoring the boat and cleaning the ski. Little hard work and determination go a long way.

  • @jvatkinson40
    @jvatkinson40 Год назад

    If something like that ever happens again, just take out the plugs spray no, soak the cylenders with WD-40 and turn the motor over three times and go get a pop. every day for the next week at the same time each day turn it over three times. If it dries out before the fifth day squirt some more in there. Not as much as the first time but, some. Continue for 2 more days then, new plugs and wires. Almost forgot, Need to change All Oils and Filters! Get Going, nobody else is gonna do it.

  • @mad1s
    @mad1s Год назад +1

    " If you can't tie a knot...tie alot"...LOL...my boss used to say that

  • @user-vr2tx4tt6b
    @user-vr2tx4tt6b Год назад

    Way to go guys !

  • @JackSalmon21
    @JackSalmon21 Год назад +1

    I like your style kid .

  • @sammvoyager
    @sammvoyager Год назад

    Great work! Congrats on boat ownership. --from Coeur d Alene--

  • @ScottyBeach
    @ScottyBeach Год назад

    Hell yeah bumpin some Berner!

  • @jamespeacock7202
    @jamespeacock7202 Год назад

    Hats off to you and crew

  • @dsciarrino3663
    @dsciarrino3663 Год назад +1

    Sweet Eng

  • @jaywood7672
    @jaywood7672 Год назад

    Seems you arc welded the lower, isnt aluminum supposed to be heli-arced?, when i was a kid i took a welding class and tried stick welding aluminum it acted more like a cutting torch lol, may have been the amperage to hot, I did successfully weld some aluminum with a tig welder, but thats for tiny welds

  • @LBS4
    @LBS4 Год назад +6

    Nothing more expensive than a free boat…..

    • @stacymcmahon453
      @stacymcmahon453 Год назад

      The very definition of "free is too much" 😂

  • @Duck-xc1sy
    @Duck-xc1sy 3 месяца назад

    Great job buddy!!!

  • @Strangernightg
    @Strangernightg Год назад +2

    Congratulations on getting your new free sunken boat that you're working your ass off to get it running . Hey whatever is clever you still got yourself à running boat .

  • @andreireal9158
    @andreireal9158 9 месяцев назад

    Oh, a buddy-fuel pump, full on beer, squeezing the bulb so that everyone can get home, something I can relate)))

  • @901cbo8
    @901cbo8 Год назад

    Great job man nice work💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @jessejmoralesjr9990
    @jessejmoralesjr9990 Год назад +1

    😊 that's so grate good 😊 for You's an amazing for all You's

  • @AbderahimHaddani
    @AbderahimHaddani 8 месяцев назад

    THANKIOU❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @mickbalton7028
    @mickbalton7028 Год назад

    Great recovery an repair

  • @r.c.8064
    @r.c.8064 Год назад

    Good job Captain Luke!!

  • @Jokesjohnnyheard
    @Jokesjohnnyheard 10 месяцев назад

    Wake up in the morning and the lights hurt your head.
    The first thing you do when you get up outta bed.
    Hit the streets runnin as you try to beat the masses and go get yourself some...

  • @pinduckyfarms4748
    @pinduckyfarms4748 Год назад

    Cavitation is way more complicated than that bud, love the content and keep up the good work.

  • @Captain_Brian
    @Captain_Brian Год назад +2

    Everything and more that you could expect from a free sunken boat

  • @LewisMowersandBoats
    @LewisMowersandBoats Год назад

    Great job everyone 👏 👍

  • @paulocunha2172
    @paulocunha2172 Год назад

    Não adianta remendar o alumínio oxicidou, tem que trocar a quilha!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @tommitchell8425
    @tommitchell8425 Год назад

    Those are real friends 😊

  • @monkeypolice3048
    @monkeypolice3048 7 месяцев назад

    What makes the boat sunk?

  • @edwicks66
    @edwicks66 Год назад

    Your a lucky some itch ! Great find .

  • @ryanjohnson1814
    @ryanjohnson1814 Год назад

    So, you got it free or did it for free, to help ,? My boat sunk in a heavy storm, a good pump, and it was floating, minus working on getting the engine water free and running, that took another day

  • @dddavis3442
    @dddavis3442 8 месяцев назад

    Depends on if it was fresh water and how long it was under.

  • @kristian18694
    @kristian18694 Год назад

    Did he stick weld aluminum??

  • @markypshoots
    @markypshoots Год назад +3

    why can't I ever have shit like this fall into my lap hahahaha

  • @lidsman2221
    @lidsman2221 Год назад

    Nicely done!