I have these exact same boat, a 1984 version and it sunk at the slip. We raised it the next day, and I gave it away to a guy who took it down to the keys to use as a floating hotel room. In my case at low tide, the water wasn’t quite up to the gunnels. Same situation though excess rainwater and some idiot jerk unplugged my power supply. I had multiple bilge pumps on it which were 12 V driven as well as a 110 V automatic pump just to be safe. But the boat never took our water, except for this one rain storm, and some dude gutter decided he was going to unplugged all the boats in the marina because I thought the tide was gonna bring the boats over the top of the docks. And then she went. No Insurance either.
Florida game wardens must be very cool. And $8,000 really isnt much. My Trojan F32 sank day after Christmas. Salvage bill is $37,800. It wasnt sank as bad as this, the salvage crew used a 3 inch pump and refloated and towed it in. Its considered totaled.
Any chance you want to help a guy get his yacht unsunk in Largo bay, the guy lives on his boat, dont think he has the resources and knowhow to get it up.
That is now junk...but I would bet he will "clean" it up and sell it to some unsuspecting fool...very much like how scumbags sell flooded cars to people
