Salvaging a Grady White After Hurricane Idalia | 20ft Grady White

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Join me on an exhilarating mission as I take you through the challenges and triumphs of refloating a partially sunk Grady White boat in the aftermath of hurricane Idalia. The sheer force of nature left the dock submerged under at least 2 feet of water, thanks to a combination of high tide and a powerful storm surge.
In this gripping video, I'll walk you through the intricate process of disentangling the boat from the dock lines that ultimately spelled its doom. Paradoxically, these very lines were also the lifeline that prevented the boat from plummeting to the marina's murky depths.
Watch as our dedicated team of towboat operators works tirelessly to rescue this watercraft, showcasing the skills and expertise required in the world of maritime recovery. Don't miss out on this thrilling tale of rescue and redemption in the wake of Mother Nature's fury.
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@markalexander5124 3 месяца назад

Many boat owners in the US remind me of school days where we would drool over the toys rich kids had and yet they would not appreciate what they had or look after them. They would play with them and then abandon them for bigger, better newer ones...

@tomr6144 2 месяца назад

Ken, Put a foot/check valve on your suction hose, you can get prime by moving the hose up and down in the water. Every down stroke will put water in the hose and it will be held by the check valve on the upstroke. Love Your job and before you complain about cold.....I live in Canada...

@CaptKenO 2 месяца назад

Hahaha. Thanks Tom! I lived in the northeast for 18 years, so I know what cold is (still not as cold as you though), but I've grown accustomed to the warmer weather down here in the sunshine state 😁

@amrak5028 Год назад

Now I know it is Sunday Morning, I have my Captain Ken video!

@CaptKenO Год назад

Haha! Glad I can help you keep track of what day it is Amrak! 😁

@rcs3030 11 месяцев назад

Well......after reading that thrilling narrative explaining salvaging the Grady White I am more that just interested. I am absolutely thrilled and excited beyond description . Oh my gosh, let me catch my breath !!! I think I'm going to pass out. Lord, here I come !!!!!!!!

@CaptKenO 11 месяцев назад

Lol. The AI did a fantastic job with that description didn't it? 🤣

@lvlndco 8 месяцев назад

@@CaptKenO You handed over control to AI...oh my! That is a great description though, got a laugh out of it. I recently had one of your videos show up in my recommended list and have been binging. 🙂

@CaptKenO 8 месяцев назад

Hahaha. Thanks Jeff! The Ai does come up with some interesting if not exactly accurate descriptions 😂

@jackkil1508 9 месяцев назад

@ 4:20 a manatee came up by the prop

@lvlndco 8 месяцев назад

I missed it, and there it was plain as day!

@vancity2349 Год назад

Nice work Captain.

@CaptKenO Год назад

Thanks Vancity!

@danh4766 3 месяца назад

Couple of suggestions. Personally I like my toes and am have broken a couple, so I wear Teva sandals with closed toes whenever working around the boats and in water. A short PVC pipe 2-3ft with a 45degree down turn for the discharge hose works well most of the time. Finally, look into a prussik hitch to set your come along higher on the pier post. The hitch grips well and can be made out of webbing or rope. Otherwise keep doing great things.

@GrandPitoVic 2 месяца назад

Wow at least that one has a cover. Most don't even have that.

@CaptKenO 2 месяца назад

It was more of a storm surge event for us than wind. Didn't even get that much rain compared to most hurricanes

@GrandPitoVic 2 месяца назад

@CaptKenO oh ok cool deal. Not great but could have been worse.

@wooly1286 Год назад

Have the same pump. I have been threatening to go to the hardware store and get a ball valve to make priming easier. Don't know if it's possible but just an idea. Also it may be handy to have a two or three foot section to hang off the dock or the side of a boat. Also tractor supply sells a strap style come along. Does wire once will get you after they get a little age and a wire starts to free.

@CaptKenO Год назад

It's a solid pump especially for the cost! Not sure how the ball valve would help, but if you try it, let me know! Trust me, as soon as the come along isn't looking new, it'll get replaced!

@donavonrobbins1908 5 месяцев назад

A ball valve on the discharge, that and. a T before the valve to add water, makes all the difference when I have to prime my shallow well pump at my cabin every spring. You can feather the valve to release air and still hold water for the pump to grab. Being you have a clamp fitting on the discharge, maybe you could assemble a fitting with a T with a ball valve for the discharge and a simple plug to pull for adding the prime water, then just clamp it to the pump when you get to the job? Then a short run of discharge hose as mentioned.

@briantaylor3133 Год назад

Nice work. Its to bad you didn't get the other boat. I cant believe they will just leave it sunk like that. What a shame.

@CaptKenO Год назад

Thanks Brian! Yeah, myself and the dock master were just shaking our heads about that one 😑

@seawench555 Год назад

Much better Audio and camera work mate, we can hear an see u now. Top vlog, love the boats. 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I wish people would either sell them off or look after them, boats are such special craft used for many reasons, but not to be abandoned, it's sacrilege.😁I would of just left the big red hose off Ken, then I saw u did!!!! Bloody terrific little pump too, what brand is it please

@CaptKenO Год назад

Thanks Sea Wench! I'm not sure what's worse. A beautiful yacht sitting at dock and almost never going out or a less costly boat that falls into disrepair and/or abandoned... This one is the 2in predator pump from harbor freight

@stevewood3170 5 месяцев назад

The only thing you can do is idle down and put a valve on the outlet side and control discharge but its very hard on the pump

@petes8849 Год назад

Would it have been possible or helpful to put a jump battery on the boats battery to get its bilge pump running again? I would think it is in the beat spot to get all the water.

@CaptKenO Год назад

It would be, but most of the time (this situation included) the boats battery has corroded so much from the saltwater that it won't make good enough connection to the rest of the power system.

@keithmichaels6188 5 месяцев назад

I would get a check valve on the end of the suction hose

@marksteinhilber6420 Год назад

Was it a manatee, a dolphin, or an alligator that stuck his nose up by the motor at 4:24? Your feet were really close snacks!

@CaptKenO Год назад

Haha. It was a manatee...I probably wouldn't have been so calm if it was a gator 😂

@C10-BMC 6 месяцев назад

The best way to prime those pumps is put a full port ball valve on the dis charge. Shut it off and fill the pump through the prime port till the suction line is full. Then start the pump it will start to build pressure once the pressure builds pump will bog down. then open the ball valve.

@CaptKenO 6 месяцев назад

The suction hose would never fill up since it's lower than the pump and it would just keep draining into the boat

@C10-BMC 6 месяцев назад

@@CaptKenO I didn’t mention in the above comment that we always put a foot valve down by the suction hose strainer that way the valve body of the pump will fill up and the suction hose will start to prime on its own. And it’s also not good to run those pumps dry the impeller will get hot. I used those pumps every day for 20+ years. Great channel. I just found it. 👍🏻

@AdventuresofHappyOurs 9 месяцев назад

I think. I’ve found my calling. TowBoat Cape Coral hiring?

@CaptKenO 9 месяцев назад

Lol 😂 You'd have to give them a call and see if they are hiring, but chances are they'd at least take on a part time captain

@kennyirish5021 Год назад

No need to take the cap off the priming chamber, Fill through the exhaust hole with what ever you have. The elec pump, 5gal bucket Cause it will fill the suck hose and the primer chamber. Holding your hand when full over exhaust will build pressuer. Worked water main breaks for 30+yrs. Got to be a fun job saving boats ; )

@CaptKenO Год назад

Thanks Kenny (cool name by the way 😉)! Would I fill it first and then start the pump?

@advancedusvsystems6255 Год назад

Get or make some dyneema soft shackles to have on hand so you don't screw up your cleat their cleat or your comealong hook with that work.

@CaptKenO Год назад

It'd be pretty hard to damage any of those points doing this type of work...theres very little movement so it's not like it going to rub back and forth a whole lot. Plus a hook is a one handed operation, which is a lot easier to latch on when you can't see the attachment point or can't get a 2nd hand down there

@CaptNickRivelli 4 месяца назад

Check out captain retrievers video on how to prime a pump. Costs like $50 in PVC fittings, takes 10 minutes to build, and lets you prime the pump in under a minute.

@CaptKenO 4 месяца назад

I have, and suggested as much to my boss. It's up to him whether he buys the parts or not (and it's more than $50 in parts)

@CaptNickRivelli 4 месяца назад

@@CaptKenO just built one last week. $53.79 in parts not including pvc glue, drill, and heat gun. Most expensive part is the flapper valve at $25

@CaptKenO 4 месяца назад

Where did you buy the cam locks from? Those were the most expensive parts of the build I found

@CaptNickRivelli 4 месяца назад

@@CaptKenO didn’t buy any, there’s a 2” 90deg elbow with female threads on our pump already. Just bought a male 2” threaded nipple and glued that to a stub of 2” and then into the 2”-3” reducer. The one way valve I found had hose clamps on both ends so I just cut the intake hose clean off and clamped the valve on and then the 2” pvc pickup nozzle into that.

@truckergare 22 дня назад

MAXIMUM hose please. : )

@douglasthompson2740 Год назад

Why use a discharge hose? It is just added restriction you do not need. Pumps faster without it.

@CaptKenO Год назад

Sometimes we need to use it. Like I said I the captions, I was playing around on this job since there wasn't any rush to get it done

@lvlndco 8 месяцев назад

In these situations does the insurance pay or does the boat owner have to pay?

@CaptKenO 8 месяцев назад

If you have hull insurance, they'll pay for it. Depending on who they have, we will either bill the insurance company directly or bill the customer who will then get reimbursed by their insurance

@taylor_imaging 8 месяцев назад

So what was swimming by the back of the boat at 4:25?

@CaptKenO 8 месяцев назад

A manatee

@robertsloane1268 11 месяцев назад

How did covers stav on under water

@CaptKenO 11 месяцев назад

Some very strong snaps

@evanhofmeyr-tg1gl Год назад

The quickest way to re prime the pump is not to let the suction hose suck air. Keep it under water at all times. 😂😂Just messing with you. 😅😅😂

@CaptKenO Год назад

Lmao 🤣 You're not wrong about that! Most boats we've got decent access to the bilge so it can just run from one spot until most of the water is pumped out so I don't have to keep repriming

@iceman9549 8 месяцев назад

👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@johnrigg9907 7 месяцев назад

Wondering if a water eductor would work better with the gas pump? That way the pump wouldn't lose its prime.

@CaptKenO 7 месяцев назад

I've never heard of a water eductor, so had to look it up...but not sure how that would keep the pump from loosing its prime since it creates a vacuum from a moving "fluid"

@mediadaemon 4 месяца назад

@@CaptKenOEssentially you would have the gas pump pumping from the body of water and not the boat, the discharge would power the eductor in the sunk boat direct to sea. I don't see it being more effecient in this situation though. What I would be inclined to try, is a tee on the suction of the pump, have the green suction hose on the 90deg el of the tee and the straight through section of the tee reduced to 3/4 and fed from an electric submersible you toss in the water. Then there is always prime water being fed into the gas pump, couple that with a foot valve/check valve on the suction end of the main hose and it likely would recover prime very quickly. I also second a 5' piece of rigid discharge as others mentioned, can lash it to the dock to assist in pump walk. You could also have that setup stay in your boat that way and be less hassle unloading it.

@stevewood3170 5 месяцев назад

The fastest way to prime the pump don't let it suck air after you get it going lol just kidding 😂😂😂

@CaptKenO 5 месяцев назад

Lol 😂 If only it were that easy...😂

@GH-wt7ww Год назад

There should be a huge enviromental pollution fine to the insurance company if they feel "We will take our time getting an adjuster out there and if it sinks it sinks attitude." It's bad enough humans are destroying everything.

@CaptKenO Год назад

It sucks yes, but being a gas powered vessel, it won't really create anymore environmental damage if it sinks. A diesel powered vessel on the other hand would, and insurance companies do get fined and have to pay for the cleanup in a lot of those situations

@billwatcher9321 Год назад

Skip the discharge hose and start the damn pump !!! Your wasting your time !!!

@CaptKenO Год назад

Like I said, there was no rush on this job and I was playing around with different techniques for priming the pump

@TheOjoneso 4 месяца назад

Looks like you have a manatee hanging out with you

@CaptKenO 4 месяца назад

Sure do

@swamprat69er 5 месяцев назад

10' of rigid hose would work great for the discharge hose. Or 10' of the same type of hose you are using for the suction line. You certainly do NOT need all that lay flat hose.

@CaptKenO 5 месяцев назад

Yeahhhhh, we've stopped using the lay flat unless we need to direct the water somewhere