Hutchinson Wooden Boat Salvage
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2020
- Quick video of a recovery of a classic Hutchinson Brothers Wooden boat built in Alexandria Bay, NY. We did not know why the boat sank but quickly figured it out...
FYI.. it was only down there 2 or 3 days.. watch the first dive without airbags on it and you can see the deck is super clean. Then look at the second dive (with airbags) and it starting to get cover in slime!!!! - Zábava
When that boat is restored it will be like that axe that has been in my family for three generations. It has only had two new heads and three new handles.
The hammer of Theseus😂
Sad to see a classic like this but good to see it salvaged to hopefully be restored
Waterline rot is the scourge of all wooden boats,wood that's always underwater no real problem,wood that's always dry the same,it's the constant soaking and drying that's the problem,this boat deserves to be repaired but only by an experienced professional builder of wooden boats,it will be expensive.
I use to live in Lake Placid NY and loved seeing these old wooden beauties blast up and down the lake. There was a business there that restored these boats. Hope this one was salvaged!
A great safe operation that’s for sure guys. Love to see that the boat lives to see more adventures, it’s a beautiful boat 👍🏻👍🏻Well done to all involved.
Great job Ed! Thanks for the good conversation this afternoon. Have a great day Sir!
thanks Tom
Awesome sound quality. I actually heard a few spoken words.
Commented like someone who has never contributed content...
Make some CZcams videos and you will inevitably have this happen to you.
Go find a doctor
@@saidantonioli2303 Gotta love a good sense of humor.
@@AmesiesCorner Not everyone on CZcams is a "content creator". Some people are content consumers. As the consumer, we expect a level of quality put forth by the creator. If that level of quality is not met, it is our right to complain. After all without the consumer, creators will not have an audience.
@@jimmac1185 Spoken like someone who has never made any content. We don't always make our videos for you.
A little flex tape and she's good as new !!
Ha! I thought that too!
flex tape won't work this time because the boat wasn't sawed in half.
I spit my coffee out reading this comment, well done 👍
Me too. I would have commented had I not read 3 comments down to your comment. Hs hs
Oh that poor old girl. Topsides look good, so someone has been neglecting below the waterline. A skilled boatwright could have her back up and running in no time, but it’ll cost big 💵
in no time? you clearly aren't familiar with wooden boats.
@@herbertgarrison6548 I’m very familiar with wooden boats, thanks. That was simply a figure of speech; it would take a team of skilled boatwrights quite a long while to repair, but I wasn’t kidding about costing big 💵.
At least it wasn’t salt water!
@UncaDave actually if it was salt water it would have been fine. Most wooden boats on salt water rot from the top down, I.e. rainwater.
Very cool to watch, shame about the hull being so rotten below the waterline, this is why I'm glad I don't have a wood boat!
Really beautiful classic woody! Looks like she just rotted right out from within without anyone really seeing it. Probably didn't take much before she split up like that. I bet she went down FAST too.😳 Really cool recovery!👍
Thanks 😊
Fresh water is the killer of many a handsome wooden vessel
@@killyourtelllievision Salt water doesn't rot wood.
@@killyourtelllievision not for wood..your sorley mistaken..
@@leejohnson6173
Thank you Sir.
I stand corrected.
Nice job Ed... saving this beauty!
Always something eerie about a sunk boat!
Started watching the video, then said to myself I'll be dipped, know that place, that's the St. Lawrence, then that's the Canadian channel near the Navy Fleet Islands. Great recovery!
Thanks.. definitely easier then the uncle sams boat two weeks ago!! Sadly she was very rotten but believe it still worth rebuilding.
A new money pit brought ashore!
maybe to you
That my marina Bonnie Castle. Rock on!!! Heard about that wasn’t around to see it. Glad you filmed it
Do u know what happened to cause sinking?
T1000 is coming! Not sure really. Rumor it was done intentionally. No proof of that as of yet. From what I saw it wasn’t maintained very well
That’s Ben Gardners boat….That’s Ben Gardeners boat!
GREAT VID!!!! AND AWESOME JOB!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Looks like a well loved boat
I can see the ad now - "mint condition, captain maintained since new, owner will consider offers!"
Freshly washed.
jmj002vp just needs a coat of wax
I was thinking flex tape!! 😳
Slightly damp.
Skis optional
Very nice recovery guys very professional maybe some day we can install these babes on aircraft flotation
Nice to see it restored.
Nice recovery 👍👍 With the right skills & tools she can be repaired $$$ Oh yea & 💰 money.
I can see the Craigslist ad now. "Ran when parked".
parked underwater
The THREE happiest moments for a boat owner - when he buys it, when he sells it, when he gets the insurance check!
Only for people who have to pay someone else to maintain them.
Boating isn't for everyone but real lovers never say that.
@@shornandkenny These classic wooden boats are beautiful. But this is why I prefer aluminum. Even many fiberglass boats have a lot of wood in the structure. As a homeowner, and someone that has maintained rental property, I've battled water damaged wood for decades. For exterior trim and repairs, I now use synthetic materials as much as possible.
@@sunbeam8866 I have a gorgeous 1955 feathercraft vagabond
Edit: it's all polished aluminum and will run all day on 25 bux worth of fuel. 😁
Nice little winter project for someone.
nice job guys !!
Wow. Might take a bit but she's a beauty. Keep us posted, please. (Subscribed)
Looks like she hit a deadhead or log that holed the hull. The rest of the damage was nodoubt old age. Needs a chine and frames plus planks and a refasten at a minimum. 40 years ago I might have taken this on but not at my age now. Love to see her when you're done!
Looks like he skinned against a rock, or something. That's crazy! Certainly hope its fixable! Great video!!!
Rotten.
Huge amount of work = huge $$$ to get that back into serviceable use.
easy repair and it will be as good as new , but they should do a total rebuild and it will become better than when it was built , so glad it was saved
if you do a lot of small boat recovery. you may want to invest in some 4 or 6" flex hose... and probably 10 feet of similar sized PCV or ABS pipe.. and a 90 ell and a 45 ell.. place a 2 foot piece of pipe between the 45 and 90.. the long piece of straight into the 90.. and the flex hose into the 45.. if you throw this siphon set up over the side of the cockpit or engine bay.. as long as you have installed it and purged it of air before you lift the boat slightly above water.. it will self start a siphon and really empty the hull fast.. you can put a clean out fitting in the 2 foot long piece between the elbows.. to allow you to purge the air.. you could do this with just a single 90 ell.. with the straight pipe dangling and the flex pipe into the bilge.. what to use for flex tubing.. 20 bucks at homedepot.. www.homedepot.com/p/FLEX-Drain-4-in-x-25-ft-Solid-Polypropylene-Pipe-52110D/202745403 how fast will a 4" hose siphon the water out of a bilge..
Of course, this boat already had drainage!
First comment from someone who is thinking straight!
Beautiful Boat
This was down the street from me! Sweet!!
nice!!
I would never have thought you can get firewood from the bottom of an ocean or lake.
You learn something every day 😂
Well, it's been three years since this video was published. Was it salvaged or scrapped?
Great job
Great job! At 6:40 remember "Jaws"!
Is that ben gardeners boat ?
@@ktmbikes9227 YES!!
WOW epic boat salvage! Look us up if your ever in Fort Worth Texas!
Thank you... and definitely
So what happened to the boat? I have watched quite a few of these boat salvage videos and information always gets real sketchy about who owns what, who pays what and what becomes of these boats after the cameras are turned off.
There's also a wooden speed boat that has a wooden frame around the windshield in lake Mead still have the outboard attached to it from the 30s
A easy job
Edit : very well raised and salvaged
It appears to be lifted out of the water too quickly. While water is still pouring out the stern vents the crane operator is still lifting. Should have used pumps as soon as the tension came on the slings I think
Looking at how it split i would say that was only the final nail in the coffin. I'm guessing it already had serious issues.
It was held together by her hull paint. Needs a complete tear down to ribs and re-skinned. Welcome to wooden boats
Ahhh but that 30 minutes when everything is perfect.........then the owner gets it. (sigh)
That is what I was thinking to much stress on the frame and hull and busted out the bottom
I was wondering if they had hit a floating log to punch a hole in the bottom to sink it. After seeing how the planking burst at the chine, I imagine the original hole was just from slapping the water while motoring around, then sinking it. It's been three years now, so maybe they have restored it.
My great grandpa built boats near the River edge well before it was made back when it was a pancake hose if i remember wright. I use to get rides in the Riot delivering news papers in the 60's. If i remember wright Hutchinson worked for the Duclon's in the early to mid 1900's.
June 2024 we need updates on repais .. is it running and hoping under original power plant 😅😊👍
That's so awesome
She's ready for a proper triple plank epoxy-mahogany bottom. Better than new.
Greetings from southern Ontario Canada how much would this recovery cost from start to finish and what paper work is required thanks for the presentation
What depth is IT there?
Was that green algae already there or did it come in with boat?
all that work polishing those fixtures on top of a boat with rotten planks under the waterline.
What's the back story, how did it wind-up at the bottom of the bay?
That is a cool old boat
When did it sink
What caused it to sink? Was Captain Morgan at t helm?
So why did it sink then? That long hole sure was not there when they left. Did they hit something?
How long was it on the bottom for? Did you find it by chance or did it belong to a friend of yours? Do you have to jump through any hoops to keep it or is it straight up finders keepers.
Only a few days and it was salvage for the owners insurance company. No finders keepers on this. Thanks for the reply.
So where does my boat sank fit into the old saying of “the best days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it”?
I remember seeing this boat some 20 years ago in Alexandria Bay, New York. Thousand Islands region. It was built by the Hutchinson boat yard. Hence the name. (also it looked like furniture)
Wow, I bet she was a jewel! Sadly the bottom was completely rotten. Hopefully she is being rebuilt.
Love all the comments of “easy repair”..
Went to high school with friend last name Hutchinson. Nick name , Hutch..52 years ago hope still afloat.
Did it hit a iceberg?
Excellent video - Covid-19 Plandemic locked down here in Massachusetts this was fun to watch. What I see is an amazing looking boat that will take $100,000 worth of highly skilled labor to restore.
pffft no way
Take a zero off. THEN and only after would it ever dream of getting 100k at any auction. Certainly devalued having viewed the lake from the bottom
10:08 Nothing like gaping holes in the hull to provide good drainage! Did you also pick up any of that garbage visible at 1:29?
Dose any one know the circumstances of how it ended up on the bottom? I am pretty sure that was Louis Wisinski's boat. His was called the "Hutch" with the siren on the bow and the round LW plaque on the bow.
How deep was it at the wreck site?
Hey Ed, I think I dived with you on Lake George a few years ago, I hired you as a dive master for the day. Since all I had was warm salt water dive experience, we guessed on my weights and when I hit the thermocline I started sinking fast into the abyss, in The Narrows somewhere. Hope you’ve been well.
I have not been in Lake George but I have heard it does have a pretty good thermocline. The narrows?? now that sounds like the St. Lawrence... which I swim regularly. Hope your still getting wet!!
Hope yall picked up the stuff that was beside the boat up too
That shit’ll buff out.
That is where my wooden boat leak, yeah it sank, but the ropes saved it from the bottom.
Stevie wonder could have done a boat survey and seen that coming. Looks like somebody slathered an epoxy coating over compromised wood.
What a shame such a beautiful boat I do hope she's salvageable their some awesome boats if properly cared for.
OUCH! That poor boat, I hope it got fixed up and back into the water!
Where are you guys located at this site if you can say where that is deep lake
Give us more details. Was the boat surveyed recently?
Awesome how she sat perfectly flat on the bottom
You should give Carter bags a try. Just a suggestion.
You know why pirates are so mean? They just ARRRRRR.
That boat is toast
Has it been restored?
there was a lot of stuff on lake bottom, speakers shirt, bottles. did that stuff just stay there.
Absolutely Not… it was all picked up!! Thanks for the comment.
I wonder if some plywood screwed over the hole would have allowed you to pump out the boat while it was still on the water? Seems like you wouldn't wanna lift a boat when it's filled with water, the bottom may come out of any boat, much less one with rot. Select sizes of plywood with screws partially driven in, and a cordless drill that works under water........
Can we get an update? Seeing this four years later.
To make it simple, tie a heavy rope around the base of the boat. Attach the 4 air bags directly to that rope so they stay as low as possible. The boat will rise up above the water line. Tow it to a boat ramp, pump the water out of the boat and pull it onto a trailer. That boat is in bad shape and has been down there awhile.
I’ve bodged bigger holes with a couple of tubes of Sikaflex!!!
couldn't here a thing, not sure why, thought I should let you know. nice job, gettin the boat though.
Would like to see this one fixed
Boarders are closed... how did you manage that?
Connections 😉
That’s so sad. That’s history right there sad to see it in that condition
Hallo from Germany behinde 3 Years has this Boat a 2 nd live ?
Any more video on her rebuild? Who is doing it?
if it's just the bottom boards it's probably worth saving but if the ribs and the keel are gone then build another and use bits off this.
what was the final outcome ?
A bad case of dry rot?
Shes a beautiful boat
Turn up your volume so we can hear you better
The bottom was all ready rotting between layers of the bottom wood owners got an Estimate to fix it found out cost more than the boat , then takes it out wide open bounces it a few times and instant hole and insurance check.
That's a perfectly logical explanation and the only realistic one I've heard yet cause somebody has to take the skipper home
Hard to believe owner wasnt aware the waterline was in that condition.
Anything can be fixed but at what cost? Most of the boat is probably intact.
Id pull the engine and turn her up side down and start stripping her bottom
No one checked to see if any rot had set in before taking her out... Looks like teak which is one of the best woods but you still need to check them every year.