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.

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!

Sad to see a classic like this but good to see it salvaged to hopefully be restored

Great job Ed! Thanks for the good conversation this afternoon. Have a great day Sir!

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.

A little flex tape and she's good as new !!

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 💵

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!

Nice job Ed... saving this beauty!

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!👍

Awesome sound quality. I actually heard a few spoken words.

Always something eerie about a sunk boat!

That’s Ben Gardners boat….That’s Ben Gardeners boat!

A new money pit brought ashore!

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!

Very nice recovery guys very professional maybe some day we can install these babes on aircraft flotation

Looks like a well loved boat

That my marina Bonnie Castle. Rock on!!! Heard about that wasn’t around to see it. Glad you filmed it

GREAT VID!!!! AND AWESOME JOB!!!!

Nice recovery 👍👍 With the right skills & tools she can be repaired $$$ Oh yea & 💰 money.

I can see the ad now - "mint condition, captain maintained since new, owner will consider offers!"

Nice little winter project for someone.

Wow. Might take a bit but she's a beauty. Keep us posted, please. (Subscribed)

nice job guys !!

Nice to see it restored.

I can see the Craigslist ad now. "Ran when parked".

The THREE happiest moments for a boat owner - when he buys it, when he sells it, when he gets the insurance check!

Looks like he skinned against a rock, or something. That's crazy! Certainly hope its fixable! Great video!!!

Great job! At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="400">6:40</a> remember "Jaws"!

Beautiful Boat

Great job

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!

This was down the street from me! Sweet!!

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

WOW epic boat salvage! Look us up if your ever in Fort Worth Texas!

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

I would never have thought you can get firewood from the bottom of an ocean or lake. You learn something every day 😂

A easy job Edit : very well raised and salvaged

Huge amount of work = huge $$$ to get that back into serviceable use.

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.

That's so awesome

That is a cool old boat

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..

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

Awesome how she sat perfectly flat on the bottom

all that work polishing those fixtures on top of a boat with rotten planks under the waterline.

She's ready for a proper triple plank epoxy-mahogany bottom. Better than new.

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)

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

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”?

June 2024 we need updates on repais .. is it running and hoping under original power plant 😅😊👍

Went to high school with friend last name Hutchinson. Nick name , Hutch..52 years ago hope still afloat.

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.

Well, it's been three years since this video was published. Was it salvaged or scrapped?

That shit’ll buff out.

Hope yall picked up the stuff that was beside the boat up too

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="608">10:08</a> Nothing like gaping holes in the hull to provide good drainage! Did you also pick up any of that garbage visible at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="89">1:29</a>?

Did it hit a iceberg?

What's the back story, how did it wind-up at the bottom of the bay?

You should give Carter bags a try. Just a suggestion.

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.

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.

Give us more details. Was the boat surveyed recently?

Was that green algae already there or did it come in with boat?

What caused it to sink? Was Captain Morgan at t helm?

Can we get an update? Seeing this four years later.

What a shame such a beautiful boat I do hope she's salvageable their some awesome boats if properly cared for.

Stevie wonder could have done a boat survey and seen that coming. Looks like somebody slathered an epoxy coating over compromised wood.

That boat is toast

So why did it sink then? That long hole sure was not there when they left. Did they hit something?

You know why pirates are so mean? They just ARRRRRR.

Has it been restored?

What depth is IT there?

OUCH! That poor boat, I hope it got fixed up and back into the water!

I’ve bodged bigger holes with a couple of tubes of Sikaflex!!!

That is where my wooden boat leak, yeah it sank, but the ropes saved it from the bottom.

How deep was it at the wreck site?

That’s so sad. That’s history right there sad to see it in that condition

Where are you guys located at this site if you can say where that is deep lake

When did it sink

Love all the comments of “easy repair”..

Any more video on her rebuild? Who is doing it?

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

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........

Dang... Where'd that iceberg come from? Titanic size gash.

Hallo from Germany behinde 3 Years has this Boat a 2 nd live ?

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.

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.

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.

she's a beauty how in the hell did it wind up abandoned

Why even post it without sound?

Such a beautifully built boat what happened to her

Please post more videos!!

Shes a beautiful boat

Turn up your volume so we can hear you better

Well looked after....:D

A bad case of dry rot?

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.

The bottom fell out of my world