No kidding! Though she is in rough condition. This is Gunboat 55 hull number one, which was dismasted and abandoned by its owner and crew 200 miles off Cape Hatteras in January 2015. She was spotted and recovered off Bermuda this past March. Now she’s on the hard and is being auctioned off, with the starting bid pegged at $15K. Bids must be received by September 6. Check this link for details.
The bridgedeck, with a mere stub of a wheel hub left on the steering pedestal. The teak decking doesn’t look half bad!
An engine, I’m guessing
Starboard transom. You can clearly see here how much of the hull was submerged
Interior living space. I assume the structure on the right with missing drawers is a double berth frame. Not sure what that is lying across it
Another interior shot, looking into some sort of machinery space
What a great idea, salvage a “free” sailboat, not.
From what I’ve gathered the carbon composite hull by itself was a large part of the $2.5M cost to build it and well worth its auction price for someone wanting to build a new boat as economically as possible providing the report of little damage to the hull is accurate. To each his own re;comments in this thread but it’s probably reassuring to whoever bought this salvaged hull planning to rebuild from it that it did stay afloat despite everything else. I hope the new owners/crew/guests never have to go through what that hull & previous party survived(barely!).
Reminiscent of those 1969 shots of Teignmouth Electron on the beach. Found this interesting follow-up re her fate while Googling how to spell “Teignmouth.”
http://panexplore.com/teignmouthelectron/
So that’s why he’s sellin Lunacy he got a rippin deal on that new fangled Cat