Just think of how nice this boat was the day she was launched, what history

1:34 Holy barnacles Batman! Looks like it's been a while since the last coat of anti-fouling paint was put on! :-)

In Australia vessels like these are usually towed out to sea and used by the navy for either target practice from afar or scuttled as a special ops drill. If too dangerous to be used as dive ships they're taken way out and make excellent artificial reefs that aren't susceptible to the crown of thorns starfish that thrive in our warmer pacific coastal waters. Like catching two fish with one hook so to speak.

As the destruction proceeds it reveals how beautifully this vessel has been constructed.

Theres always something sad about having to tear up an old vessel as such, the things and good memories tucked away on board gone in an instant. Boats are meant to be kept in a condition until they sink which is the river, ocean or lake taking back whats theirs, also in a way its beautiful thinking that the boat will be recycled, going to something else. So in a way the memories held by the vessel live on.

Guessing this was possibly all the guy had left considering he was unable to afford to have the boat moved himself so the council go the route of having his boat moved, stored then demolished rather then simply just having it moved and returned to its rightful owner.

Oh my heart, It's such a lovely old vessel, such a shame they had to scrap it.

I was riding a 45' yacht with a friend down the Mississippi River to Clearwater Florida. We got to Apalachicola and got behind a barge that churned up a log from the bottom, which we hit and bent a prop. We limped to the Government Cut and into the marina. They had one of those boat lift sling machines just like the one here. We pulled in, they raised it out of the water and drove inland a bit, we had a shiny new screw installed, cleaned the bottom with a pressure hose the best we could and they sat us back into the water. It was so quick, so painless. Expensive as all fuck, but we were on our way by lunch. Amazing machines

I recognize the old Wood-Freeman autopilot, hanging from the steering wheel. Had the same set-up, as the vessel I ran in 2018-19. The Sterling, was built in 1929, and is 85 feet, and due for the same ending. She tried coming apart, in the Gulf of Alaska.

Shame they just tore it all up. I'd like to have had the lights on the top, and I know some independent seafood shop or restaurant could make good use of some parts for decoration

one of my favorite videos on yt. iconic! I watch it every couple month for years Can you do more videos with this demolishing company pls ?

I wanted the bell, prop, copper and steering wheel lol awesome work guys

I saw what became of the boat of interest. Just please tell me the dogs were dealt with humanely?

That was a good old Detroit diesel in that boat sad to see it scrapped! But it was probably nothing more than rusty metal by then!

"How was your day hon?" "oh spent it totally wrecking miss China down the docks with a massive mechanical arm" "your clothes are on the lawn, and your dinners in the dog"

For all of you going "ohh the poor mans home!!!" I will tell you a story from a locals perspective. The boat was towed into the harbor and sat on a mooring for a couple of years. The mooring that he was on belonged to the town, he did not pay a single dime to moor it there or pay for any of the repairs that were needed on the mooring because of his shitbox. The boat also was towed into the harbor with complete super structure on it, which he slowly took off and simply tossed into the harbor.

'Oh Leaping Flyingfish, I would have loved to snag that classic ol' wooden spoked pilot's wheel at 4:20.

Miss China: Me The excavator: All Girls In My School

not even the claw could destroy that cursed dvd x.x

You don't need to destroy a boat.Just lose it to your wife in the divorce like everyone else.

Kelly's Shipyard Fairhaven...Lived there for 35 years..

They said the engine was beyond repair. The boat can be repowered or left unpowered since it was the guy's home anyway.

Was the screw/ Ruder & Bell salvaged along with bridge wheel!

This made me sick! I hope Mr Duley and his dogs are OK. I Googled him and read a few articles. Seems like he didn't have much money but also wasn't a very likable kinda guy. At least the local authorities didn't seem to care for him that much though they did help him out in the past when his boat had gotten into trouble. Can't be all bad he obviously loved dogs. They kept wanting him to take responsibility. That's kind of hard when you don't have the money just trying to survive.

If this was a video about a boat that sank at it moorings,taking the old guy & his dogs down with it,there'd be heaps of comments saying"why didn't the authorities prevent this?"

Watching those huge hydraulic shearing jaws scything through the vessel, all I could think was, chomp, chomp, chomp!

what about davey jones' locker? fish reefs, diver's attraction, etc.

That was sad !

Really good and very interesting

sad that a man & his dogs lost their home, I'd like to live on a boat like that, parked in a harbor

Se desmontasse o navio, como fazem em Alang,as peças seriam melhor aproveitadas.

They ought to rename that device "The Moe Howard." (Why I oughta...)

I'm sad for the old guy but it is awesome how they took it apart

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There are unhappy people in the world. The title delivered exactly what it said and it was a nicely produced video production and still there are 80+ people who 'did not like' it; not because of what they saw but of their own unfulfilled lives.

it looks like it was in the water for 10 years, but it is sad to watch something like that being destroyed

Scrap the hull of the boat ... " Dinner " LOL

look at the condition of the boat: The owner knew salvage costs would exceed the value of this boat, and was glad that they didnt charge him the bill of removing it from the beach...

First thought as wheel was exposed, "why didn't they save the wheel ?!". so glad they did

When they hauled it out of the water, why didn't they just dismantle it on land? Why did they plop it on a barge to dismantle it? As they were dismantling it, debris was falling into the water.

I feel sorry for the boa and the man and his dog

The superficial resemblance of boat-shaped junk to a functional vessel shouldn't fool anyone, and the people who think demolishing it is wasteful rather than needed garbage disposal are ignorant of boats and their repair. Reusing the steel and sending the rest to the landfill is what to do.

Also too, a shear was unnecessary here. An excavator with a claw would have been more useful.

That thing had more barnacles than Rosanne Barr's belly.

we got a whole bunch of boats…12 jennys..

That was very interesting!

The engine wasn't running, but he had it fully insured?

That's some serious marine fouling on the hull.

The title is how to demolish a boat but the narrator keeps calling it a ship. A boat is something that can be put on a ship but a ship can't be put on a boat.

is there lead in the bottom of that. to keep it upright

Poor old boat :(

NOT a ship, it's a boat. Ships generally are > 500 tons.

My mother lived on that boat for a short time with it's owner, Joe Dooley. Her time on his boat resulted in physical and emotional trauma which has taken years to properly treat... Dooley is an unhinged and narcissistic man. In a way I pity him, as he's clearly mentally ill, however the psychological abuse he's put his family and my mother through makes it difficult to feel much sympathy for him losing his home.. He made one bad decision after another, knowing full well that others would have to fix his mess. He's a manipulator and a con man.. Joe now lives in the very remote woods on Unity NH, where he continues to bring grief to the community. Constantly picking fights with neighbors and lawmakers, all in the name of a moral battle he's conjured in his head.. I'm sure the community was happy to see him and the boat he lived on go.. The boat had it's charm but was ultimately unsafe and unfit for the sea.. I was glad to see it get destroyed.

I was wondering the exact same thing. If they'd give it back to him they'd only pay for towing. Now they'll probably have to pay for the demolition of the ship as well.

Glad the DVD was saved! 🙆👍

that is very cool..!! Your video is very entertaining, well done my Friend...

Had this of been some fancy yacht of someone on the board of the council it would have been moved and repaired for free.

What year was the boat made? When was it retired?

The Minnow would be……WHOA!!

I'm sorry that old man lost his home . I wonder what became of him and his dog ?

only thing that kept ship on the water is the fiberglass skin, the rest is all rotten

That underbit is completely rotten

what a waste somebody's home pride and joy gone to history books.

Having known that a man in for dogs lived on the boat how would the individual feel if somebody did that to their home speaking in the third-person reference of course

As they said in the start of the video, the ship was beyond repair. Everything is repairable, but there comes a point when the cost is worth much more than what the ship would be worth.

Nice job saving the wheel.

I was down in the keys at a marina where they had an abandoned fiberglass sailboat they were cutting apart with a chainsaw. They have moorings there, and you have to pay a nominal fee to moor there to cover the cost of pump-outs. Anyway, hippies buy these old boats and live in them and then don't pay the fee. I asked why they didn't just SELL the boats instead of scrapping them. The guy said, "The former owners would just buy them back for pennies and start the process all over again".

I can't be mean to people like that,very heartless and very sad.sorry buddy wish u luck.

Nic Stroud you speak so much sense .shame the authorities don't have your common sense

amazing the amount of money spent to dispose of this boat. you know they just turned around and gave the guy the bill.

The wheel had a screw driver as a handle replacement! :)

someones' home...

What became of Dooley and his dogs?

Conrad Jr? Looks like Jr been eating man sided burgers for the last 10 years. :)-

So why did this job require a hydraulic sheer?

Did the engine and generator work i would of mounted them on a inclosed trailer for emergency power so it can be pulled to wear its neaded

Does anyone know the make of that shrimp boat? Was it a Desco? What year do ya think she was made?

if it was made out of metal how wide brack it

So the town of Nantucket couldn’t help the scalloper keep his vessel/home?

Granted its past its best, but it was sound enough to survive a storm, being beached, and salvaged.......

It's a shame that people up north are so fast to destroy a trawler rather then offer it up to someone who would have cleaned the bottom, replaced the engine and repaint it.

Glad to hear the wood is burned and not put in a land fill. Need more energy plants and less in the land fill!

Good Guy Shear-man doesn't destroy the wheel :)

I've peeled the layers off an ex stripper many many times

This was very difficult to watch. When the Navy disposed of its wooden hulled ocean going minesweepers, they used the same method. After removing any salvgeable materials, the destruction began. Very disheartening and sad. The sweeps were around 172 ft and weighed around 950 tons.

still wondering how i get there...

This is incredibly sad!

Thats left me feeling a bit sad what a shame

Hell I want the wheel

That thing was cool...too bad i dont have the funding for upkeep on something like that.

I'm on a Boat, I'm on a Boat, I'm on a ....(looks out window)..Oh shit I gotta get off.

There is NO extortion here! No body twisted his arm to live there. He was given the opportunity to remove the wreck from the light house seawall. He could not afford to keep his vessel secured or the cost of retrieval; it was beyond affordable to him. He kicked himself by perpetuating the situation until it became a problem for someone else. Nothing in life is free. It IS all about money! And it WILL NEVER change! That IS THE WAY IT IS.

All along the west coast shores of Canada B.C there are so many abandoned derelict vessels now that it has become a nuisance and the B.C leaders do not think it is fair for the province to flip the bill to clean away every abandoned boat left behind, that some people refused to take responsibility for.

Was that a Detroit Diesel that came out? Those things are NEVER beyond repair unless a rod has punched a hole in the block.

4:25 I would have thought that someone would have taken the wheel. They did salvage the wheel.

There is a generator on that did it get squished not the built in ship one on the deck and I think that was a second engine not a generator

Any decent scallops clinging to the hull to eat ?

Got barnicles???

what are the slings made of?? steel cables inside a rubber protector to keep sea salt off it?

you shall have a fishy on a dishy when the boat comes in