wrote in message
ps.com...

Good Gravy. It's supply and demand. Here developers plop down 20
million for property thats on the Tax roll at 3.5 million. Then they
build 40 story condos. Don't like it... move. What do you want, Govt
cheese paid to your marina owner to keep it from becoming a resort for
rich snowbirds? Tearing up peoples property because you can not afford
to stay is pretty ****ty IMO.

If I were in Skip's position I would tell the insurance company to
take the boat now, and give me a check. I would argue that the boat
became a total loss on the reef, once the USCG lifted them off the
deck it belonged to the insurance company AS IS. Get a job, and a
lawyer... find another boat and start over a bit wiser.

Second option is to work your ass off screwing plywood over holes,
get the engine running and limp back up north on the ICW until he
finds a yard not in such demand that will allow him to live aboard as
he repairs the boat. Trucking the boats going be very expensive, i'd
guess 8-10K. We had scores of boats in worse condition limp here
(Houston) after Katrina & Rita for repairs.

Joe


I bet the Marina in the Key's deal with the issue of insurance boats
all the time. Work yards make money working, not storing boats.


Rather drastic, Joe. From what I've seen and read from Skip's reports,
Flying Pig is bruised, but hardly broken. "Totalled" is only an insurance
company's description of a boat they think will cost more to repair -- at
yard and contractor's rates, to put back into the same condition as she
was -- than she is worth. A cheap yard and plenty of sweat equity on Skip
and Lydia's part can heal the "ouches" and put FB back to rights again for
substantially less.