This afternoon while trying to convince Windows 8 to stop switching access points to the phone I was holding below line-of-sight while Zoom kept trying to launch the Web interface while Windows 8 kept trying to pop up the network settings help page while the bluetooth speaker kept powering off (the tablet has no speakers) while the access point that actually held a call kept rebooting spontaneously while Zoom kept hiding the dial in info because its connection dropped because the access point kept rebooting while Windows 8 started to try to steal the bluetooth device from the phone I was trying to dial in on, there was a lot of shouting and fussing and the word "pump" was repeated, so I grabbed the large sump out of the bilge, untied where I'd lashed its discharge hose, walked it down the dock, and dropped it half way out on the finger of a sinking boat being attended by half a dozen people, figuring it unnecessary for me personally to set up the pump.
Later I walked over and helped mix underwater epoxy, fetched tools and supplies cords power adapters, etc. Both of the boat's bilge pumps were running non-stop, plus one large dewatering pump, plus mine, plus a gas pump that kept overheating but moved a lot of water while it was running. After pulling enough water out of the boat, which was a long slow proposition, the approximately five people on the boat eagerly hoping to spot the leak saw that a whole 6' plank had tore loose and was wide open. One person in the marina named Stacy has experience is boat rescues, and equipment, and donned his Eeyore onesie and dry suit, opened a gallon of underwater epoxy over, fired up the compressor (old fashioned dive-suit style), and jumped in. Despite a lot of work of ramming it in cracks, the water flow kinda only slowed.
At the point where they fired up the gas pump, the stern was just about to go under, and that would have been it.
Latitude 38 had a story of the sinking of the Suisun in Richardson bay. After being built by the US Army Corps of Engineers to map the bay and plot depths, being a grand yacht, sunk once, restored, fallen in to disrepair, then becoming a home to a Richardson Bay anchorout, she sank in the storms, in 7 feet of water. The US Army Corps of Engineers then re-floated, then crushed her.
Little nautical history of the Sacramento delta is preserved. Relatedly, Spindrift resturant is down for the count. The old owners had been trying to get out for a long time. The new owners bought right before COVID hit, which is a hard to weather storm of another sort. Haven't investigated, but very likely, it's probably now sole property of the bank that financed it. Spindrift featured amazing nautical decor. Reportedly, the restaurant was once a hopping destination for young socialites coming up from the city to slum it somewhere more rough and freewheeling. It's long been just locals, with country music karaoke night their bread and butter.
Yes, that's a whole stern above the bar, well above water.
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