You refer to the Straddle Carrier as a Crawler and a Travel Lift. The latter is the company trade name. I was one of certified operators at Marine Projects in the U.K. We were certified up to 40 Tons as that was the biggest boat we built then (65 Ft). If you look from the top it is u shaped and the open end always goes out to the water first. The boat then had to reverse in so that the lowest part is under cross beam and the cabin and superstructure can lift high enough to get the boat out. This is why they changed to the shorter strops and saved time by just tying up the cranes longer ones

This hole story was something else. grate filming.

So, what do you think this cost the Captain of the HMS Stinky Firewood?

See the name on the transom "PILE OF SHIP"

Gonna take a guess that the owner of the sunk boat owns the pile driving company.... And the state threatened him with huge fines if he did not recover the boat. Using his own guys during slack times was probably the cheapest route.

that is a fairly healthy current there. tide going out???

center of mass is roughly under the stack?

The object of this excersize was to employ as many people as possible.

those are called "Spuds" IIRC.

looks like a little maintainance may have helped a little

I'm guessing these men are on hourly rate

Why the hell didnt the just run a cable from the back of the fishing boat to the boat lift?

Looks like she's still leaning to her right. Her hull swelled & expanded.

Now go watch the raising of the Costa Concordia Cruise ship vid, to see what professional looks like. Bet the 2 operations cost about the same =:-)

man I am tired after watching this.

Is this Dave Turners Crew?

That boat looks like a good pile of fire wood to me it wrotten.

That's quite a current

The lack of proper equipment amazes me

Talk about a Mickey Mouse operation, they must be union. LOL🤠

Is the slowest working crew I have ever seen they are just trying to make money

Is it something wrong with my eyes or this ship looks like a pile?

boat looks older than me

Talk about incompetence. And yes, I have done better. Many many times. That tugboat operator has no idea what he's doing. Pull the boat upstream, swing around and put it on a hip tow, point it perpendicular to the stream and let the current help you float it into the slip.

I just wish someone would have pulled in all that lose flotsam off the stern!! WTF? lines and straps all in the water ready to fowl up any prop within 30 yrds.....

need bigger push boats.

How long was that thing sunk? You don’t fill up 1/8 of the boat with mud in 2 weeks. That thing had to have been sitting there for a while. Prob how ever long it took him to get paid by his insurance co for the insurance job he surely pulled on that pos. It floated much better when it was called the Jenny and Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan had it.

Should have put it with the fish's ay !

So that's what a 40 ton piece of shit looks like.

That was painful to watch. Hey

Captain obvious on the narration.

SS Minow

Who's the annoying know it all behind the camera and what is his expertise in wooden fishing boats and salvage to claim the water tight bulkheads aren't watertight and it sunk because of rotten wood?

It looks a rotten old wreck. It must of cost £5000 it man power and lifting cranes. It sunk because of rotten wood. And now the inside and engine are watwer logged. scrap or a massive project.

No wonder it sank it doesn’t look the best of boats

Ya shes sea worthy let's take her out mate.

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saw no sinking and no raising

If you lubbers had any idea of what was going on, you would tip your hat to these guys.